As a growing number of diplomatic practices take new digital forms, research on digital diplomacy is rapidly expanding. Many of the changes linked to digitalization transform or challenge traditional ways of doing diplomacy. Analyses of new forms of “digital diplomacy” are therefore valuable for the advancement of practice approaches in international relations theory. That said, digital diplomacy poses a number of challenges for international relations scholarship that are only beginning to be addressed. Digitalization is both a process and a result, and provokes key questions regarding continuity, change, agency, space, and materiality in diplomacy. The overarching aim of this article is to advance a research agenda that seeks to address key questions in the study of digital diplomacy on the basis of various practice approaches. In particular, the article highlights three dimensions of change as being central to the research agenda and investigates how these can be explored in future analyses of digital diplomacy.

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外交数字化转型的实践方法：迈向新的研究议程

随着越来越多的外交实践采取新的数字化形式，数字外交的研究正在迅速扩大。许多与数字化相关的变化改变或挑战传统的外交方式。因此，对“数字外交”新形式的分析对于国际关系理论实践方法的进步具有重要意义。也就是说，数字外交对国际关系学术提出了许多挑战，而这些挑战才刚刚开始得到解决。数字化既是一个过程，也是一个结果，并引发了有关外交连续性、变化、代理、空间和物质性的关键问题。本文的总体目标是推进一项研究议程，旨在根据各种实践方法解决数字外交研究中的关键问题。特别是，