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Cultural considerations and rigorous qualitative methods in public diplomacy research

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  • Phillip Arceneaux

    (Miami University)

  • Lindsey M. Bier

    (University of Southern California)

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This article examines how qualitative approaches to human-centered inquiry benefit public diplomacy (PD) scholarship. It argues that rigorous qualitative methods improve the frameworks guiding PD research. Tendencies for miscommunication permeate the encoding and decoding communication processes in international/intercultural contexts, with PD often transcending cultural boundaries and national borders. This article cautions against assuming conceptual, measurement, and semiotic equivalence of constructs and variables, based on influences from culture and language. Furthermore, the article advocates mixed methods, explicating how rigorous qualitative methods can better contextualize the statistics of quantitative methods, leading to more comprehensive understandings of PD.

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  • Phillip Arceneaux & Lindsey M. Bier, 2022. "Cultural considerations and rigorous qualitative methods in public diplomacy research," Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 18(3), pages 228-239, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:pbapdi:v:18:y:2022:i:3:d:10.1057_s41254-021-00232-4
    DOI: 10.1057/s41254-021-00232-4
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