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Second city syndrome : media reportage of urban rankings Verhoeven, Deb and Morris, Brian 2012, Second city syndrome : media reportage of urban rankings, in Proceedings of the 2012 Evaluation in the Media conference, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Institut de la communication du CNRS (ISCC), Paris, France. Title Second city syndrome : media reportage of urban rankings Author(s) Verhoeven, Deb Morris, Brian Conference name Evaluation in the Media. Conference (2012 : Paris, France) Conference location Paris, France Conference dates 15-16 Mar. 2012 Title of proceedings Proceedings of the 2012 Evaluation in the Media conference Editor(s) Bouchard, Julie Publication date 2012 Conference series Evaluation in the Media Conference Publisher Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Institut de la communication du CNRS (ISCC) Place of publication Paris, France Summary This paper investigates the popularly reported phenomenon of city rankings and, in particular, the category of the ‘second city’ that regularly features as part of this prolific evaluative discourse. Our paper proposes that the category ‘second city’ has a specific analytical value that has to date been underestimated in academic accounts (particularly in the confusing, interchangeable use of ‘second-tier’, ‘secondary’ and ‘second cities’ in the dominant urban studies literature). Instead, we are interested in how second city identifications permeate popular forms of urban comparison in some places. The example of Melbourne (Australia) is used to investigate how second city identities are historically sustained through evaluative media representations. In particular we examine how, through their reportage of various world city rankings, metropolitan newspapers reveal and articulate a ‘second city consciousness’. How do media institutions, and more specifically, media reports, frame these urban rankings in such a way to confirm Melbourne’s similarity to other globalised places (i.e. proposing its status as a ‘world city’), yet also as a city also marked by a particular historical specificity? And how do they draw on already existing popular and political traditions of urban comparison? This article will identify and analyse the role of newspapers in perpetuating both formal and informal urban comparisons. Language eng Field of Research 200209 Multicultural, Intercultural and Cross-cultural Studies Socio Economic Objective 970120 Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture HERDC Research category E1 Full written paper - refereed Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30044940 Document type: Conference Paper Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Communication and Creative Arts Centre for Memory, Imagination and Invention Related Links Link Description Connect to conference website Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Tue, 01 May 2012, 12:59:02 EST Tue, 01 May 2012, 12:59:51 EST Mon, 07 May 2012, 16:00:07 EST Wed, 09 May 2012, 15:23:42 EST Thu, 10 May 2012, 12:39:40 EST Thu, 10 May 2012, 12:41:27 EST Thu, 10 May 2012, 13:47:25 EST Thu, 10 May 2012, 13:48:25 EST Mon, 07 Jan 2013, 13:32:11 EST Tue, 08 Jan 2013, 10:47:08 EST Filtered Full Access Statistics: 77 Abstract Views, 1 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Tue, 01 May 2012, 12:59:01 EST by Deb Verhoeven

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