Host residents’ role in sporting events: The city image perspective

Oshimi, Daichi; Harada, Munehiko

doi:10.1016/j.smr.2018.04.002

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“…Nearly at the same time, Kevin Lynch proposed a research method for city image [24,25], which involves people's emotions about a city [26]. In its gradual development, city image was extended from the physical environment of a city to cultural images containing non-material elements, such as city culture [27]. The two images above belong to the same concept, which is closely related to human thinking.…”

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Analysis of Spatial Interaction between Different Food Cultures in South and North China: Practices from People’s Daily Life

Zhang

Zhou

Huang

2020

IJGI

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An important component of research in cultural geography involves the exploration and analysis of the laws of regional cultural differences. This topic has considerable significance in the discovery of distinctive cultures, protection of regional cultures, and in-depth understanding of cultural differences. In recent years, with the “spatial turn” of sociology, scholars have focused increasing attention to implicit spatial information in social media data, as well as the social phenomena and laws they reflect. Grasping sociocultural phenomena and their spatial distribution characteristics through texts is an important aspect. Using machine learning methods, such as the popular natural language processing (NLP) approach, this study extracts hotspot cultural elements from text data and accurately detects the spatial interaction patterns of specific cultures, as well as the characteristics of emotions toward non-native cultures. Through NLP, this study examines cultural differences among people from South and North China by analyzing 6128 answers to the question, “What are the differences between South and North China that you ever know?” posted on the Zhihu Q&A platform. Moreover, this study probes individuals’ emotions and cognition of cultural differences between South and North China in three aspects, namely, spatial interaction patterns of hotspot cultural elements, components of hotspot cultures, and emotional characteristics under the influence of cultural differences between the two regions. Results reveal that: (1) people from North and South China exhibit considerable differences in recognizing each other’s culture; (2) among numerous cultural differences, food culture is the most popular; and (3) people tend to have a negative attitude toward food cultures that differ from their own. These factors can shed light on regional cultural differences and help address cultural conflicts. In addition, this study provides effective solutions from a macro perspective, which has been challenging for new cultural geography.

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Analysis of Spatial Interaction between Different Food Cultures in South and North China: Practices from People’s Daily Life

Zhang

Zhou

Huang

2020

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“…Due to the positive impacts of sporting events, a growing number of communities are planning to develop sporting events, or are fiercely competing as they seek to host them [7]. One of the most important social aspects is the improvement of the place image (PI) of the host, and raising awareness of the place so that the external image can be improved [8]. PI is an important factor for understanding residents' reactions to tourism [9].…”

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“…It supports the image transmission process and effectively predicts individuals' perceptions, attitudes, and behavioral intentions. Therefore, the use of fit to explain the emotional, cognitive, and intentional responses of residents to the host community or a sporting event can deliver trustworthy evidence to explain the impact of the sporting event on the host city [8,15]. However, few empirical studies have explored the fit between an event and its host city [16].…”

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How Sport Tourism Event Image Fit Enhances Residents’ Perceptions of Place Image and Their Quality of Life

Hsu

Chen

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This study developed an exploration model for sport event image fit to predict and explain the place image and quality of life in order to achieve sustainable development goals in rural communities. To validate the model, 294 valid resident responses from a rural community that hosted a sporting event in Taiwan were analyzed with partial least squares structural equations modeling (PLS-SEM). The results showed that image fit contributes to the social environment, entertainment services, and quality of life; four place image dimensions had a significantly positive effect on quality of life. The exploration model was validated, contributing to the knowledge related to Sustainable Development Goals 3 and 11.

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“…City image is people's topic feeling on the city [26]. In its gradual development process, city image has also been extended from the physical environment of city to cultural image containing non-material elements such as city culture [27]. The two above images belong to the same concept, which is closely related to human thinking.…”

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Analysis of Spatial Interaction between Different Food Cultures in South and North of China — Practices from People's Daily Life

Zhang¹,

Zhou²,

Huang³

2019

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As an important research content in cultural geography, the exploration and analysis of the laws of regional cultural differences has great significance for the discovery of distinctive cultures, protection of regional cultures and in-depth understanding of cultural differences. In recent years, with the "spatial turn" of sociology, scholars are paying more and more attention to the implicit spatial information in social media data and the various social phenomena and laws they reflect. One important aspect is to grasp the social cultural phenomena and its spatial distribution characteristics through the text. Using machine learning methods such as the popular natural language processing (NLP), this paper can not only extract hotspot cultural elements from text data but also accurately detect the spatial interaction pattern of some specific cultures and the characteristics of emotions towards non-native cultures. Taking the 6,128 answers to the question “what are the differences between South and North China that you never know” on the Zhihu Q&A Platform as an example, with the help of NLP, this paper has explored the cultural differences between South and North China in people’s mind. This paper probes into people’s feeling and cognition of the cultural differences between South and North China from three aspects, including spatial interaction patterns of hotspot cultural elements, components of hotspot culture and emotional characteristics under the influence of cultural differences between North and South. The study reveals that 1) people from North and South China have great differences in recognizing each other’s culture. 2) Food culture is the most popular among many cultural differences. 3) People tend to show negative attitude towards the food cultures different from their own. All these findings shed light upon the understanding of regional cultural differences and addressing cultural conflicts. In addition, this paper also provides an effective solution to the study from a macro perspective, which have been difficult for new cultural geography.

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Host residents’ role in sporting events: The city image perspective

Cited by 57 publications

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Analysis of Spatial Interaction between Different Food Cultures in South and North China: Practices from People’s Daily Life

Analysis of Spatial Interaction between Different Food Cultures in South and North China: Practices from People’s Daily Life

How Sport Tourism Event Image Fit Enhances Residents’ Perceptions of Place Image and Their Quality of Life

Analysis of Spatial Interaction between Different Food Cultures in South and North of China — Practices from People's Daily Life

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Host residents’ role in sporting events: The city image perspective

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Analysis of Spatial Interaction between Different Food Cultures in South and North China: Practices from People’s Daily Life

Analysis of Spatial Interaction between Different Food Cultures in South and North China: Practices from People’s Daily Life

How Sport Tourism Event Image Fit Enhances Residents’ Perceptions of Place Image and Their Quality of Life

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