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The Economy and Public Diplomacy: An Analysis of RT's Economic Content and Context on Facebook

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  • Ayse D. Lokmanoglu
  • Carol K. Winkler
  • Kareem El Damanhoury
  • Virginia Massignan
  • Esteban Villa-Turek
  • Keyu Alexander Chen

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With globalization's rise, economic interdependence's impacts have become a prominent factor affecting personal lives, as well as national and international dynamics. This study examines RT's public diplomacy efforts on its non-Russian Facebook accounts over the past five years to identify the prominence of economic topics across language accounts. Computational analysis, including word embeddings and statistical methods, investigates how offline economic indicators, like currency values and oil prices, correspond to RT's online economic content changes. The results demonstrate that RT uses message reinforcement associated economic topics as an audience targeting strategy and differentiates their use with changing currency and oil values.

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  • Ayse D. Lokmanoglu & Carol K. Winkler & Kareem El Damanhoury & Virginia Massignan & Esteban Villa-Turek & Keyu Alexander Chen, 2024. "The Economy and Public Diplomacy: An Analysis of RT's Economic Content and Context on Facebook," Papers 2405.01798, arXiv.org, revised May 2024.
    • Handle: RePEc:arx:papers:2405.01798
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