One-sided portrayal: Singapore media discourse of social scientists’ roles

One-sided portrayal: Singapore media discourse of social scientists’ roles

This article analyses the gap between the news media’s and scholars’ portrayals of social scientists’ roles in Singapore. It adopts a media representation theoretical framework, undertaking a media discourse analysis of the Singapore Select Committee on Deliberate Online Falsehood between January 20...

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Main Author: Wong, Gabriel Boon Khee
Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2023
Subjects:
Social sciences::Mass media::Media studies
Social sciences::Communication::Cultural studies
Public Communication of the Social Sciences
News Media Portrayal
Media Representation
Social Scientist Role
Singapore
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/169156
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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Summary:This article analyses the gap between the news media’s and scholars’ portrayals of social scientists’ roles in Singapore. It adopts a media representation theoretical framework, undertaking a media discourse analysis of the Singapore Select Committee on Deliberate Online Falsehood between January 2018 and October 2019. Findings show the media’s consistent depiction of the instrumental roles of social scientists via avoidance of academic language and social-political critiques. The article argues that Singapore’s news media portrayal emphasises the instrumental orientation of social scientists’ roles. The study contributes a social-cultural account in the Singapore context, reframing the media representation framework that has hitherto been understood from a Western perspective.

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