Track-Change Diplomacy: Technology, Affordances, and the Practice of International Negotiations.
How does technology influence international negotiations? This article explores "track-change diplomacy," that is, how diplomats use information and communication technology (ICT) such as word processing software and mobile devices to collaboratively edit and negotiate documents. To analyze the wide...
| Publicado en: | International Studies Quarterly Vol. 63; no. 3; pp. 531 - 546 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Sep2019
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