Hashtag Diplomacy: Foreign Policy in the New Media Era

University of Southern California

Thursday, March 2, 2017  |  12:15-1:30 PM  |  Eastwoods Room (UNB 2.102)

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Philip Seib is a Professor of Journalism and Public Diplomacy and Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California.

Seib’s research interests include the effects of news coverage on foreign policy, particularly conflict and terrorism issues. He is author or editor of numerous books, including Headline Diplomacy: How News Coverage Affects Foreign Policy; The Global Journalist: News and Conscience in a World of ConflictBroadcasts from the Blitz: How Edward R. Murrow Helped Lead America into WarBeyond the Front Lines: How the News Media Cover a World Shaped by WarNew Media and the Middle East (2007); The Al Jazeera Effect(2008); Toward a New Public Diplomacy: Redirecting U.S. Foreign Policy (2009); and Real-Time Diplomacy: Politics and Power in the Social Media Era (2012). Seib is also the editor of the Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication, co-editor of the Palgrave Macmillan Series in Global Public Diplomacy and co-editor of the journal Media, War and Conflict, published by Sage.

Prior to joining the USC faculty in 2007, Seib was a professor at Marquette University and before that at Southern Methodist University.