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Australian media and political personality Julie Bishop is the minister for foreign affairs, and is a regular tweeter. Being a political personality, her twitter has become a platform to connect with the general public, as well as a platform to PR her views, her whereabouts, and evidence of connections with general public, through photos of her activities and duties as minister of foreign affairs.
As with any political figure Bishop creates some discussion of political matters and issues which face Australia. Such an example is Australia’s welcome of Iran nuclear negotiations framework agreement, were she posted a link to a press realise. As expected her 117k followers will have various options on the matter. However Bishop herself
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This can be seen by her profile picture which looks professional and even her header, to her personal website.
Bishop’s Twitter page is a promotional tactic to advertise all the things which she is doing to “make Australia better”, and could be a way to “connect with the next generation of voters.” (Nick Clegg,2010)
Despite this attempt to connect with the younger audience by politicians such as Bishop, and the potential to transform their relationships with the public, as a blogger by the name of Democratic audit, “ The reality of our political communications environment seems entombed with old media model of top down.”
An example of this is, the foreign ministers recent tweet:
Rather than inviting discussion, it seems to simply report what has already been decided. Rather then using Twitter to establish two-way dialogue, which is the aim of these social media sights, Bishop merely reinforces the old one-way communication and self
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She wants to communicate the image of ‘wanting what is the best for Australia’, and does a good job to help people get connected and want to discuss issues which surround Australia. Such as the example of her a link to her Speech Australia’s term on UNSC. In that sense Bishop does a good job of Promoting herself.
However, what I would suggest that Bishop approve is even though you see her connecting with everyday people in photos, she should make more effort of connecting with people in the Twitter sphere as it is limited, and have more room for discussion like Australian personality Derryn Hinch, who encourages people opinion, and makes an effort to connect with his followers.
It is also recommended that even though Bishop evokes some discussion, it is recommended that she continues to increase number of responses and discussion from her followers on her twitter profile.
It promotes the human headline, as she can further discuss her opinions especially if the topic raised is controversial and stimulating to
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