Star Architecture from Below: Narratives and Images from Social Networks

Jacquot, Sébastien; Chareyron, Gaël

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“…Although BERTopic has been shown to outperform other topic modeling approaches, the author notes shortcomings in interpretability of the topics, especially when providing few text documents to the model. Therefore, how users are talking about the Depot was also explored by counting the occurrence of lemmas [63], specifically of adjective-noun combinations to capture user's attitudes towards the Depot and discussed topics. This task required identifying adjectives in the post descriptions and relating them to a corresponding noun.…”

Section: Textual Analysis By Topic Modelling and Sentiment Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

The performance of exceptional public buildings on social media–The case of Depot Boijmans

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Exceptional public buildings are buildings that are commissioned by public institutions with the deliberate and declared intention that they become icons. The recognisability of such buildings and their exposure to a wide audience can support the interests of their producers, who are keen on developing symbolic landmarks of their institutions. Textual and visual online communication can play an important role in boosting exposure and affecting how a building acquires iconic status. Content produced by social media users not only reflects how such buildings are perceived, it also goes on to affect how they perform, that is, what narratives they become associated with and how such association supports their transformation into icons. However, the role of content produced by different actors is unclear. In particular, what differences, similarities and influences exist between public/supply and private/user generated social media content particularly during the early life cycle of a building. This article presents a research methodology that can address these questions. Findings generated by applying this methodology on the case study of Depot Boijmans in the City of Rotterdam are presented. By scraping, filtering, organising and analysing content produced by Instagram users about the case study it was possible to show that that public/supply and private/user generated content converge independently. Textual analysis of posts uncovers an overwhelmingly neutral and positive sentiment in posts. Newness, iconicity and the novelty/firstness of the publicly- accessible- art- storage-concept emerge as central topics and are discussed in equal quantities on both the public and private actors. Post behaviour is characteristically different amongst actors, where public actors tell longer stories than private actors but both coinciding with events. The clustering of photographs of the building reveals a trend towards more than one point of interest. The results demonstrate that the exceptional building currently receives more attention on Instagram than the valuable masterpieces stored within it. This suggests the intended performance is achieved in the short term but its long-lasting effects and its assimilation to become an icon in the Museum Park or even the City of Rotterdam will be tested with time. It suggests the photograph itself becomes an actor in the creation of its iconic status in visual media platforms and recognises the agency of non-persons, and that Instagram is merely one of many (social) media platforms used to do so. This research offers methods and their applicability toward a catalogue for data analysis for architecture and urban studies related to the online performance of buildings.

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Section: Textual Analysis By Topic Modelling and Sentiment Analysismentioning

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The performance of exceptional public buildings on social media–The case of Depot Boijmans

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“…From a Data Science viewpoint, as a valuable preliminary approach, Plaza and Haarich (2006), Alaily-Mattar et al (2018), Alaily-Mattar, Büren, and Thierstein (2019), Jacquot and Chareyron (2020), and Lindsay and Sawyer (2021) had conducted data extraction, cleaning and pattern recognition from items in online newspapers and periodicals (e.g. New York Times, Lexis Nexis, Avery), websites with user-generated content (e.g.…”

Section: Literature Review: the Economics Of Superstar Architecture-led Repositioning In Global Mediamentioning

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“…The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is probably one of the most repeated narratives with regard to the role of superstar architecture in the alteration of the global perception of the city-region in which the museum is located. The overall conception of Bilbao in the global media has been influenced profoundly by the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (Plaza and Haarich 2006;Alaily-Mattar, Büren, and Thierstein 2019;Jacquot and Chareyron 2020). To demonstrate the correlation between the impact of a superstar museum on the perception of the city-region in the global media, Plaza and Haarich (2009) used the presence of Bilbao in the New York Times as a proxy for the presence of Bilbao in the international press.…”

Section: Literature Review: the Economics Of Superstar Architecture-led Repositioning In Global Mediamentioning

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Superstar Museums and global media exposure: mapping the positioning of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao through networks

Plaza

Amiano

Esteban

2021

European Planning Studies

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Superstar architecture can play a key role in the global positioning of museums in influential mass media, thereby successfully attracting cultural tourism (e.g. the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, GMB). Yet, an evident shortcoming is the mapping of media positioning. The aim of this article is precisely to draw and visualize this positioning of the GMB through networks. Two innovative features characterize this study: first, from a theoretical point of view, it links the debate on Superstar Museums to the broader economic debate on Superstar Economics. Akin to Rosen's hypothesis, in the case of Superstar Museums, the media exposure is concentrated among a handful of museums. In this context, the authors highlight the role of networks. The central nodes in the networks utilized for the study, depict/stand for museums that have the maximum visibility in the international media. The second innovative feature of the article is the analysis of co-citation networks in articles of the New York Times for two periods (1995-2000 and 2014-2019). The network graphs map the results of this article: the GMB positioned itself effectively with its inauguration in 1997. In addition, 20 years later the GMB still remains quite well positioned.

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Star Architecture from Below: Narratives and Images from Social Networks

Cited by 2 publications

References 24 publications

The performance of exceptional public buildings on social media–The case of Depot Boijmans

The performance of exceptional public buildings on social media–The case of Depot Boijmans

Superstar Museums and global media exposure: mapping the positioning of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao through networks

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