Bread and circuses : food meets politics in the Singapore media
While there has been consistent academic interest in the link between the media and politics, this attention has mostly bypassed lifestyle journalism. Yet this can reflect the political and social realities of a country if less clearly than more overtly political coverage. This paper seeks to demons...
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sg-ntu-dr.10356-889342020-03-07T12:15:50Z Bread and circuses : food meets politics in the Singapore media Duffy, Andrew Yang, Ashley Yuhong Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information Food DRNTU::Social sciences::Journalism Culture While there has been consistent academic interest in the link between the media and politics, this attention has mostly bypassed lifestyle journalism. Yet this can reflect the political and social realities of a country if less clearly than more overtly political coverage. This paper seeks to demonstrate how the Singapore government has used food to help construct a national identity and how the local print media have been a partner in this. It analyses how food has been represented in the Singapore press in relation to attitudes that contribute to nation-building. The findings suggest that the food-related articles studied usually reflected a culture of self-improvement, an ethnic-cultural element and cosmopolitan attitudes, all of which were identified as touchstones of Singapore's government-approved national identity. In addition, there is also marginally more press coverage of cosmopolitan and foreign food compared to local food, in concurrence with government initiatives to place the country as a globalised hub. Accepted version 2019-05-24T02:34:54Z 2019-12-06T17:14:03Z 2019-05-24T02:34:54Z 2019-12-06T17:14:03Z 2011 Journal Article Duffy, A., & Yang, A. Y. (2012). Bread and circuses : food meets politics in the Singapore media. Journalism Practice, 6(1), 59-74. doi:10.1080/17512786.2011.622892 1751-2786 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88934 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/48352 10.1080/17512786.2011.622892 en Journalism Practice © 2012 Taylor & Francis. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journalism Practice on 09 Nov 2011, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/17512786.2011.622892. 26 p. application/pdf |
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While there has been consistent academic interest in the link between the media and politics, this attention has mostly bypassed lifestyle journalism. Yet this can reflect the political and social realities of a country if less clearly than more overtly political coverage. This paper seeks to demonstrate how the Singapore government has used food to help construct a national identity and how the local print media have been a partner in this. It analyses how food has been represented in the Singapore press in relation to attitudes that contribute to nation-building. The findings suggest that the food-related articles studied usually reflected a culture of self-improvement, an ethnic-cultural element and cosmopolitan attitudes, all of which were identified as touchstones of Singapore's government-approved national identity. In addition, there is also marginally more press coverage of cosmopolitan and foreign food compared to local food, in concurrence with government initiatives to place the country as a globalised hub. |
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