Emily Metzgar

Indiana University, The Media School, Faculty Member

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A former US diplomat, policy analyst, and newspaper columnist, Emily Metzgar joined the Journalism faculty at Indiana University in 2008. Her research focuses on public diplomacy, international communication, and the role of media in society. Metzgar’s work has appeared in Political Communication, Place Branding & Public Diplomacy, Columbia Journalism Review, USA Today and elsewhere. She is the head of the International Communication Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) and is writing a book about American alumni of the Japan Exchange & Teaching (JET) Program and their growing influence on the US-Japan relationship.
Address: Bloomington, Indiana, United States

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Willing Interpreters & Receivers: American Alumni of the Japan Exchange & Teaching (JET) Program

Established in 1987, the Japanese government’s Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program has gene... more Established in 1987, the Japanese government’s Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program has generated more than 60,000 alumni worldwide, half of them Americans. Coalescing over three decades, the American JET alumni community offers a compelling example of how the creation of “willing interpreters and receivers” (Nye) through an international exchange program can yield benefits for both sponsors and participants. Focused on the American JET alumni community’s composition and its efforts to organize into an independent actor in its own right, this paper offers insight into a large-scale effort to promote soft power in the context of the strategically important US—Japan relationship. This article is published as part of a collection on soft power.

FRIENDS FROM AFAR? American media coverage of China's Confucius Institutes

by Emily Metzgar, Emily T Metzgar, and Jing Su

This research characterizes American media coverage of China's Confucius Institutes and their rel... more This research characterizes American media coverage of China's Confucius Institutes and their related activities in the United States since their emergence more than 12 years ago. Although there are now more than 100 Confucius Institutes and 300 associated classrooms in the country, to date there has been no systematic study of how these Chinese government-sponsored organizations are portrayed in the American press. This study presents a content analysis of 426 articles mentioning these efforts at the heart of China's public diplomacy endeavors since 2003. Determining that fewer than half of the articles did more than mention these organizations, we dedicate particular attention to the 183 examples that do focus specifically on Confucius Institute and classroom activities across the country. While results point to some differences in tone, framing and sources across university, local, state, national and international news outlets, we find that the majority of coverage focuses uncritically on these Chinese institutions without providing broader context about China's rationale for engaging in such activities. The implications for China's public diplomacy efforts in the United States are considered.

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