Events from the AJ Clark School of Engineering http://eng.umd.edu/events/ Mon, 13 Apr 2015 11:26:12 EDT http://eng.umd.edu/images/clark_logo_4email.gif http://eng.umd.edu/events/ Thursday, April 23, 2015 9:00 PM, Room 3202 Knight Hall, Political leaders, diplomats, and citizens recognize that communication shapes global politics. This has only been amplified in a new media environment characterized by Internet access to information, social media, and the transformation of who can communicate and how.The study of strategic narratives helps us understand how political actors seek to shape order through narrative projection in this new environment. To explain the changing world order – the rise of the BRICS, the dilemmas of climate change, poverty and terrorism, the intractability of conflict – we must ask how actors form and project narratives and how third parties interpret and interact with these. The concept of strategic narrative does this. It draws together the most salient of international relations concepts, including the links between power and ideas; international and domestic; and state and non-state actors.Prof. Roselle will discuss this work and the international collaboration that underpins advances in strategic narrative research.A Professor of Political Science and Policy Studies at Elon University, Prof. Roselle is a major figure among international scholars of political communication. She has published widely on communication and international relations, including as co-author of Strategic Narratives: Communication Power and the New World Order (with Alister Miskimmon and Ben O'Loughlin, Routledge, 2013). She is also an editor of a new Routledge Studies in Global Information, Politics and Society book series. View Flyer (pdf)   http://www.advance.umd.edu/events/index.php?mode=4&id=10487 http://www.advance.umd.edu/events/index.php?mode=4&id=10487