@inbook{43a8e1a836a541d3ba8623cf5bb7f491,
title = "Papal Diplomacy and the Rise of @pontifex",
abstract = "This chapter explores the significance of the pope{\textquoteright}s presence on Twitter to evaluate the pope{\textquoteright}s diplomatic practices. It does so by bridging studies on {\textquoteleft}traditional{\textquoteright} diplomacy with scholarly work on the rise of the so-called {\textquoteleft}digital diplomacy{\textquoteright}, and by evaluating how the pope{\textquoteright}s diplomatic practices on- and off-line diverge from what it is generally considered to be the {\textquoteleft}standard{\textquoteright} in diplomatic practice. By employing a combination of discourse and content analysis to study the tweets by Pope Francis, the chapter explores how the pope{\textquoteright}s digital diplomacy perpetuates the practice of assigning to the pope the function of representing not a state but God in the diplomatic arena, as well as allowing the pope to reach not only experts in the public state business but a global public even beyond Catholicism.",
author = "{De Franco}, Chiara",
year = "2020",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-46107-2_2",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-030-46106-5",
series = "Culture and Religion in International Relations",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",
pages = "25--43",
editor = "Barbato, {Mariano P.}",
booktitle = "The Pope, the Public, and International Relations",
address = "United Kingdom",
}