Contestation over Truth Regimes: Russia, China and the US digital diplomacy on the Russian invasion of Ukraine

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Contestation over Truth Regimes: Russia, China and the US digital diplomacy on the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The report explores digital diplomacy campaigns conducted by three foreign powers (China, Russia, and in comparison, The United States) in selected EU member states. It sheds light on how the first two try to achieve a specific external impact – severing foreign populations’ links to the regimes of truth that constitute their states’ economies of power, including through strategic disinformation and propaganda efforts. In so doing, these campaigns aim to increase ontological and epistemological insecurity, creating a crisis of belonging, and knowledge production and transfer. They may reach this goal by spreading positive narratives about themselves (identity affirmation), by disseminating a particular worldview (truth construction); but also by challenging the existing regimes of truth (truth contestation). Subsequently, we compare their strategies with that of the United States. Empirically, the paper focuses on a particular ‘controversy’ – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its treatment in the tweets produced by diplomatic missions in the EU of the three foreign powers. Methodologically, the study combines quantitative and qualitative approaches, relying in particular on computer-enhanced critical discourse analysis. The report is result of Horizon RECLAIM - Reclaiming Liberal Democracy in Europe, no. 101061330.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Contestation over Truth Regimes: Russia, China and the US digital diplomacy on the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Popis výsledku anglicky

The report explores digital diplomacy campaigns conducted by three foreign powers (China, Russia, and in comparison, The United States) in selected EU member states. It sheds light on how the first two try to achieve a specific external impact – severing foreign populations’ links to the regimes of truth that constitute their states’ economies of power, including through strategic disinformation and propaganda efforts. In so doing, these campaigns aim to increase ontological and epistemological insecurity, creating a crisis of belonging, and knowledge production and transfer. They may reach this goal by spreading positive narratives about themselves (identity affirmation), by disseminating a particular worldview (truth construction); but also by challenging the existing regimes of truth (truth contestation). Subsequently, we compare their strategies with that of the United States. Empirically, the paper focuses on a particular ‘controversy’ – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its treatment in the tweets produced by diplomatic missions in the EU of the three foreign powers. Methodologically, the study combines quantitative and qualitative approaches, relying in particular on computer-enhanced critical discourse analysis. The report is result of Horizon RECLAIM - Reclaiming Liberal Democracy in Europe, no. 101061330.

Druh

V_souhrn - Souhrnná výzkumná zpráva

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50601 - Political science

Projekt

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Návaznosti

R - Projekt Ramcoveho programu EK

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Počet stran výsledku

31

Místo vydání

neuveden

Název nakladatele resp. objednatele

European Commission

Verze

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