期刊
SOCIAL SEMIOTICS
卷 33, 期 2, 页码 402-425出版社
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/10350330.2020.1870405
关键词
City branding; social media; multimodal critical discourse analysis; promotional videos; China; TikTok
In the digital age, Xi'an leverages the popular social media platform of TikTok to construct its digitalized urban image. Through linguistic and visual resources in short videos, Xi'an highlights its dual identity as a modern metropolis and a historical city.
In the digital age, cities around the world are mobilizing various symbolic resources to rebrand their images through social media. Against this background, this study investigates how Xi'an, a second-tier developing city in China, constructs its digitalized urban imaginary using the popular social media platform of TikTok. A semiotic framework is developed to model Xi'an's urban imaginary as evaluative attributes and to elucidate how they are constructed through linguistic and visual resources in short videos on TikTok. The analysis of 294 videos shows that Xi'an highlights its dual identity as a modern metropolis and a historical city. The modern metropolis image is characterized by the personification of Xi'an as a stylish, young, popular, and international microcelebrity; the historical city image is constructed through recreating the Great Tang dynasty and revitalizing local folk art. The characteristics of city branding discourse reflect China's wanghong economy, urban policies and the affordances of social media.
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