Seeing Singapore: Portrayal of the city-state in global print media

Freeman, Bradley C.; Nguyen, Trang Nhung

doi:10.1057/pb.2012.10

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“…It has long since been uncovered that the mass media not only raise awareness in the minds of the audience but that they also play a special role in forming attitudes about, for example, products, issues, or even cities, via the way that the coverage is constructed (Freeman & Nguyen, 2012). Much of what has been written on this subject has come from advertising and marketing perspectives due to advertisers seeking to establish brand awareness in the public consciousness (Getkate, 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

People, Planet, and Profits: Comparing Media Treatment of Dubai Sustainable City

Ayoub,

Freeman

2023

SAGE Open

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There is a growing acknowledgment by segments of the global population that it is becoming extremely difficult to ignore the negative production externalities of industrial processes. In this regard, the related concept of “sustainability” has been gaining traction, with use of the word rising considerably since the 1990s. The term itself has been defined in many different ways, however, the core components are becoming common knowledge: economic, environmental, and social—informally referred to as profits, planet, and people. As Borden has aptly noted: “Sustainability ideas are growing and maturing at many levels worldwide”. One way that people come to know about sustainable development and its importance is through media coverage of the movement via various projects and initiatives that have been proposed on a theoretical or conceptual basis, as well as those models which have already been concretely realized. One such project established in 2015 is Dubai’s “Sustainable City’, the emirate’s first net-zero energy working model, which received attention in the world press. This paper investigates and compares the coverage that the Sustainable City has received in the global and local media by utilizing a content analysis methodology guided by framing theory. The research joins the discussion on issues regarding how the media discuss aspects of “sustainability” and how it takes hold within a society, whether it be by grassroots or government policy.

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People, Planet, and Profits: Comparing Media Treatment of Dubai Sustainable City

Ayoub,

Freeman

2023

SAGE Open

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“…The media not only plays an important role in shaping public cognition toward city brands [25], but also effectively constructs the meanings of city brands [20]. As the world experiences the ages of the Internet of the 1980s, the Web of the 1990s, the mobile Internet of the 2000s, and artificial intelligence and social media of the 2010s, global news articles have been diffused through the web and the mobile Internet, and act as the information source in social networks.…”

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Comparisons of the City Brand Influence of Global Cities: Word-Embedding Based Semantic Mining and Clustering Analysis on the Big Data of GDELT Global News Knowledge Graph

Zheng

2020

Sustainability

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Global cities act as influential hubs in the networked world. Their city brands, which are projected by the global news media, are becoming sustainable resources in various global competitions and cooperations. This study adopts the research paradigm of computational social science to assess and compare the city brand attention, positivity, and influence of ten Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) Alpha+ global cities, along with their dimensional structures, based on combining the cognitive and affective theoretical perspectives on the frameworks of the Anholt global city brand dimension system, the big data of global news knowledge graph in Google’s Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT), and the technologies of word-embedding semantic mining and clustering analysis. The empirical results show that the overall values and dimensional structures of city brand influence of global cities form distinct levels and clusters, respectively. Although global cities share a common structural characteristic of city brand influence of the dimensions of presence and potential being most prominent, Western and Eastern global cities differentiate in the clustering of dimensional structures of city brand attention, positivity, and influence. City brand attention is more important than city brand positivity in improving the city brand influence of global cities. The preferences of the global news media over global city brands fits the nature of global cities.

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“…The studies in this area are grouped under two clusters – the studies related with media and advertising and the studies related with narratives. Media has an influential role in shaping and reshaping public perceptions, including the images of other nations (Freeman & Nguyen, ). Avraham () suggested a model determining the amount and nature of cities' coverage patterns in the national news media.…”

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Synthesis of City Branding Literature (1988–2014) as a Research Domain

Oğuztimur

Akturan

2015

Journal of Tourism Research

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The purpose of this study is to systematically review the city branding literature, organize the subject matters and draw a map of the development and change in the city branding research domain. As a result, city branding literature is categorized under four thematic areas: (1) city branding concept, processes and measurement; (2) branding strategies; (3) social urbanism; and (4) branding culture and tourism. Most of the studies are research based. The qualitative methods are commonly used. There is a general tendency to describe the data but not to interpret the relations between the concepts and theories. Therefore, the knowledge is idiographic.

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Seeing Singapore: Portrayal of the city-state in global print media

Cited by 11 publications

References 26 publications

People, Planet, and Profits: Comparing Media Treatment of Dubai Sustainable City

People, Planet, and Profits: Comparing Media Treatment of Dubai Sustainable City

Comparisons of the City Brand Influence of Global Cities: Word-Embedding Based Semantic Mining and Clustering Analysis on the Big Data of GDELT Global News Knowledge Graph

Synthesis of City Branding Literature (1988–2014) as a Research Domain

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