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Wilfrid Laurier University

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Civil-Military Relations

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Tweeting Strategy: Military Social Media Use As Strategic Communication, Rupinder Mangat Jan 2018

Tweeting Strategy: Military Social Media Use As Strategic Communication, Rupinder Mangat

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Many Western militaries now actively engage with various social media platforms. The starting point for my dissertation research was this question: how does the military use social media? Considering the Canadian Armed Forces’ use of Twitter as a case study, I collected over 14,000 tweets from four Twitter accounts of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF), the Canadian Army, the Royal Canadian Navy, and the Royal Canadian Air Force with some tweets as old as September 2012 and the most recent tweets from December 2015. I employed Grounded Theory Method to analyze these tweets, which revealed four themes — organization, history, …