20.500.12556/DKUM-96588 A cross-cultural newspaper content analysis smart cities in Japanese and Slovenian newspapers The realisation of smart cities has attracted much attention in recent years from private and governmental actors, as a means to make cities more efficient, climate friendly and socially inclusive through the use of modern technology. However, few studies examine how smart cities are framed and understood within the public sphere. The aim of this study is to compare how domestic smart city initiatives are reported in the news of their respective countries, and to clarify the differences and similarities in media content. In this paper, we present the initial findings of our planned long-term comparative news content analysis. As a first step, we analysed national newspaper articles published between 2011 and 2019 in Japan and Slovenia. Our corpus consists of 41 Japanese and 20 Slovenian articles, written in relation to domestic smart city initiatives. In total, we identified 14 themes, five of which were common in both countries, while the remaining nine appeared exclusively in the news of one country. Our conclusions indicate that the news in both countries differ in what application domains of Smart Cities are discussed (e.g. natural resources and energy, transportation and mobility). We establish a procedure for further cross-cultural analyses, necessary to understand how smart cities are framed in the public sphere. Thereby, we contribute to further discussion on the nature and definition of smart cities and how they are communicated. smart cities news media cross cultural newspaper content analysis Japan Slovenia pametna mesta analiza časnikov Japonska Slovenija true false true IOS Press Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik https://ebooks.iospress.nl/ © 2021 The authors and IOS Press Znanstveno delo 2026-01-20 10:02:29 2026-01-20 10:02:29 2026-01-21 03:34:09 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2021 0 0 Str. 247-256 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2021-01-01 659.2:004 46011651 46240003 10.3233/FAIA200833 FAIA-333-FAIA200833.pdf FAIA-333-FAIA200833.pdf 1 1438AE2DB44B9B74DB828E0BB00A57FF 12f1007df9aecbddba081a5e52a288c072d9d9977b2e0e4f2f4c103f5e6b8aa7 042958f9-f5df-11f0-8ae2-00155d580e02 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=202254 https://ebooks.iospress.nl/volumearticle/56448 0 c0169bf1-f5de-11f0-8ae2-00155d580e02 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=202253 Fakulteta za elektrotehniko, računalništvo in informatiko 0 0 0