Corneliu Bjola
@cbjola.bsky.social
Professor of Digital Diplomacy, University of Oxford; #DigitalDiplomacy #Metaverse
Reposted by Corneliu Bjola
"The Ukrainian meme machine: digital diplomacy and ‘quantum humour’" by @cbjola.bsky.social and Michaela Coplen is out now in EJIR!
You can read the full article here: t1p.de/2h93o
#digitaldiplomacy #ukraine #quantumtheory #memediplomacy
You can read the full article here: t1p.de/2h93o
#digitaldiplomacy #ukraine #quantumtheory #memediplomacy
November 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
"The Ukrainian meme machine: digital diplomacy and ‘quantum humour’" by @cbjola.bsky.social and Michaela Coplen is out now in EJIR!
You can read the full article here: t1p.de/2h93o
#digitaldiplomacy #ukraine #quantumtheory #memediplomacy
You can read the full article here: t1p.de/2h93o
#digitaldiplomacy #ukraine #quantumtheory #memediplomacy
Findings from 145 high-engagement Ukraine posts: effective PD is adaptive (phase-sensitive) and disciplined (credibility over spectacle). Policy cue: balance relational and adversarial narratives without sliding into propaganda. 3/3
October 20, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Findings from 145 high-engagement Ukraine posts: effective PD is adaptive (phase-sensitive) and disciplined (credibility over spectacle). Policy cue: balance relational and adversarial narratives without sliding into propaganda. 3/3
Two modes:
🌍 Projecting Self—resilience, democratic values, solidarity.
⚔️ Distancing Self—exposing and delegitimising aggression. 2/3
🌍 Projecting Self—resilience, democratic values, solidarity.
⚔️ Distancing Self—exposing and delegitimising aggression. 2/3
October 20, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Two modes:
🌍 Projecting Self—resilience, democratic values, solidarity.
⚔️ Distancing Self—exposing and delegitimising aggression. 2/3
🌍 Projecting Self—resilience, democratic values, solidarity.
⚔️ Distancing Self—exposing and delegitimising aggression. 2/3
My new article in International Affairs (with Alicia Fjällhed): the Strategic Self explains how wartime digital diplomacy works—where communication becomes strategy. 1/3
doi.org/10.1093/ia/i...
doi.org/10.1093/ia/i...
October 20, 2025 at 10:14 AM
My new article in International Affairs (with Alicia Fjällhed): the Strategic Self explains how wartime digital diplomacy works—where communication becomes strategy. 1/3
doi.org/10.1093/ia/i...
doi.org/10.1093/ia/i...
Started the day at the AI for Good Summit with a sharp session hosted by UNITAR and ITU for senior Geneva diplomats.
We unpacked key challenges in global #AIGovernance:
– Who’s setting the rules—and who’s not at the table?
– Can diplomacy keep up with the tech?
#DigitalDiplomacy #AIForGood
We unpacked key challenges in global #AIGovernance:
– Who’s setting the rules—and who’s not at the table?
– Can diplomacy keep up with the tech?
#DigitalDiplomacy #AIForGood
July 7, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Started the day at the AI for Good Summit with a sharp session hosted by UNITAR and ITU for senior Geneva diplomats.
We unpacked key challenges in global #AIGovernance:
– Who’s setting the rules—and who’s not at the table?
– Can diplomacy keep up with the tech?
#DigitalDiplomacy #AIForGood
We unpacked key challenges in global #AIGovernance:
– Who’s setting the rules—and who’s not at the table?
– Can diplomacy keep up with the tech?
#DigitalDiplomacy #AIForGood
🚀 Just out: Our intro article to the #TechDiplomacy special issue! Unlike digital diplomacy ( comm tools) or science diplomacy (knowledge exchange), techdiplo is driven by the geopolitics of innovation power.
#TechDiplomacy #SciDip #DigitalDiplomacy
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#TechDiplomacy #SciDip #DigitalDiplomacy
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Studying Tech Diplomacy—Introduction to the Special Issue on Tech Diplomacy
This article serves as an introduction to the special issue on tech diplomacy, exploring its emergence and evolution as a distinct approach to global affairs in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revol....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 4, 2025 at 8:37 AM
🚀 Just out: Our intro article to the #TechDiplomacy special issue! Unlike digital diplomacy ( comm tools) or science diplomacy (knowledge exchange), techdiplo is driven by the geopolitics of innovation power.
#TechDiplomacy #SciDip #DigitalDiplomacy
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#TechDiplomacy #SciDip #DigitalDiplomacy
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
EU foreign ministers share updates in secret Signal group, officials admit www.ftm.eu/articles/eu-...
EU foreign ministers share updates in secret Signal group, officials admit
Crucial decisions have been made on the basis of text messages between EU politicians, but officials have always controversially claimed that such "short-lived" communications cannot be stored or rele...
www.ftm.eu
April 16, 2025 at 12:50 PM
EU foreign ministers share updates in secret Signal group, officials admit www.ftm.eu/articles/eu-...
🚨 NATO’s New Digital Battleground: Algorithmic Warfare 🚨
My latest #NATO Review article examines how AI-driven #disinformation is reshaping conflict.
Malign actors embed narratives, build influence networks, and activate them at key moments.
🔗 NATO Review www.nato.int/docu/review/...
My latest #NATO Review article examines how AI-driven #disinformation is reshaping conflict.
Malign actors embed narratives, build influence networks, and activate them at key moments.
🔗 NATO Review www.nato.int/docu/review/...
www.nato.int
February 9, 2025 at 12:18 AM
🚨 NATO’s New Digital Battleground: Algorithmic Warfare 🚨
My latest #NATO Review article examines how AI-driven #disinformation is reshaping conflict.
Malign actors embed narratives, build influence networks, and activate them at key moments.
🔗 NATO Review www.nato.int/docu/review/...
My latest #NATO Review article examines how AI-driven #disinformation is reshaping conflict.
Malign actors embed narratives, build influence networks, and activate them at key moments.
🔗 NATO Review www.nato.int/docu/review/...
Reposted by Corneliu Bjola
Our first special issue of 2025 focuses on "A Victor's Peace for Ukraine? Possibilities for Mediation, Negotiation, and Peacebuilding." Advance articles can be accessed for free with access token INER2025 through February 28 brill.com/view/journal... @susanhallen.bsky.social @lwagner.bsky.social
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January 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Our first special issue of 2025 focuses on "A Victor's Peace for Ukraine? Possibilities for Mediation, Negotiation, and Peacebuilding." Advance articles can be accessed for free with access token INER2025 through February 28 brill.com/view/journal... @susanhallen.bsky.social @lwagner.bsky.social
It was a pleasure to be interviewed by Der Spiegel on the legitimacy of humor as a tactic in #digitaldiplomacy and the risks associated with its use by MFAs in their digital communication. www.spiegel.de/ausland/dona...
(S+) Donald Trump: Viraler Post des Auswärtigen Amtes - das sagt ein Demokratieforscher
Das Auswärtige Amt teilte auf X gegen Donald Trump aus. Hier erklärt der Diplomatieforscher Corneliu Bjola, warum der Post so erfolgreich war, und wann öffentliche Witze von Politikern über andere Pol...
www.spiegel.de
September 15, 2024 at 8:17 PM
It was a pleasure to be interviewed by Der Spiegel on the legitimacy of humor as a tactic in #digitaldiplomacy and the risks associated with its use by MFAs in their digital communication. www.spiegel.de/ausland/dona...
Join me on Feb 29, 2024 for a conversation on the impact of digital technology on diplomacy with Prof J Heine and M Ye, and Amb P.W. Hare at Boston University. The event is part of a series of talks marking the launch of 'The Oxford Handbook of #DigitalDiplomacy.'
www.bu.edu/pardee/2024/...
www.bu.edu/pardee/2024/...
February 15, 2024 at 7:10 PM
Join me on Feb 29, 2024 for a conversation on the impact of digital technology on diplomacy with Prof J Heine and M Ye, and Amb P.W. Hare at Boston University. The event is part of a series of talks marking the launch of 'The Oxford Handbook of #DigitalDiplomacy.'
www.bu.edu/pardee/2024/...
www.bu.edu/pardee/2024/...
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February 6, 2024 at 1:13 AM
The next stage of #AI? "AI will give different answers for different users, based on their values preferences and possibly on what country they reside in."
www.axios.com/2024/01/17/s...
www.axios.com/2024/01/17/s...
Exclusive: Sam Altman says ChatGPT will have to evolve in “uncomfortable” ways
OpenAI's next model will be able to do "a lot, lot more," Altman told Axios.
www.axios.com
January 17, 2024 at 8:47 PM
The next stage of #AI? "AI will give different answers for different users, based on their values preferences and possibly on what country they reside in."
www.axios.com/2024/01/17/s...
www.axios.com/2024/01/17/s...
Thrilled to be back at DA_vienna for the launch of the new volume on Digital International Relations 📚
Key topic discussed : how digital tech is transforming IR in practice 🌐 and as the discipline 🎓
Packed room, lively discussions - more to come! #DigitalIR 🔥
amzn.eu/d/8N2TYhc
Key topic discussed : how digital tech is transforming IR in practice 🌐 and as the discipline 🎓
Packed room, lively discussions - more to come! #DigitalIR 🔥
amzn.eu/d/8N2TYhc
January 12, 2024 at 2:02 PM
Thrilled to be back at DA_vienna for the launch of the new volume on Digital International Relations 📚
Key topic discussed : how digital tech is transforming IR in practice 🌐 and as the discipline 🎓
Packed room, lively discussions - more to come! #DigitalIR 🔥
amzn.eu/d/8N2TYhc
Key topic discussed : how digital tech is transforming IR in practice 🌐 and as the discipline 🎓
Packed room, lively discussions - more to come! #DigitalIR 🔥
amzn.eu/d/8N2TYhc
🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
The Oxford Handbook of Digital Diplomacy is out now! 📚
34 chapters written by top experts in the field about how digital technologies are transforming diplomacy 🚀
#DigitalDiplomacy #DiplomacyInTheDigitalAge
www.amazon.co.uk/Oxford-Handb...
The Oxford Handbook of Digital Diplomacy is out now! 📚
34 chapters written by top experts in the field about how digital technologies are transforming diplomacy 🚀
#DigitalDiplomacy #DiplomacyInTheDigitalAge
www.amazon.co.uk/Oxford-Handb...
January 4, 2024 at 4:19 PM
🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
The Oxford Handbook of Digital Diplomacy is out now! 📚
34 chapters written by top experts in the field about how digital technologies are transforming diplomacy 🚀
#DigitalDiplomacy #DiplomacyInTheDigitalAge
www.amazon.co.uk/Oxford-Handb...
The Oxford Handbook of Digital Diplomacy is out now! 📚
34 chapters written by top experts in the field about how digital technologies are transforming diplomacy 🚀
#DigitalDiplomacy #DiplomacyInTheDigitalAge
www.amazon.co.uk/Oxford-Handb...
