South Architecture ›› 2025, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (07): 94-104.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-0232.2025.07.010

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Misalignment and Reconstruction of Landscape Architecture's Image on Social Media: A Case Study Based on Zhihu and rednote

  

  • Online:2025-07-31 Published:2025-08-04
  • Contact: Chen Chongxian

社交媒体中风景园林形象的错位与重构——以知乎、小红书为例

  

  1. 华南农业大学林学与风景园林学院
  • 通讯作者: 陈崇贤
  • 作者简介: 1硕士研究生;2副教授,通讯作者,电子邮箱:chongxian@scau.edu.cn;3本科生;1&2&3华南农业大学林学与风景园林学院
  • 基金资助:
    2023 年广东省高等教育教学改革项目( JG2023003):一流专业建设背景下风景园林规划设计课程教学改革研究。

Abstract: With the rapid development of social media, media platforms have become important bridges, channels, and references for understanding the external world. A deep analysis of the image characteristics of landscape architecture on internet social media and its complex influences, holds significant importance for the existing positioning and future development of landscape architecture in media society from a subject to an industry. This study used hotspot content (over 1,000 likes) related to "landscape design" on two representative emerging social media platforms, Zhihu and rednote, as analysis samples. For the methodology, propagation paths were analyzed by combining Lasswell's Five-Element Model with the "opinion leader" theory in communication studies. Quantitative statistics were carried out using big data analysis tools like FineBI. Moreover, the media image exhibition features and construction mechanism of landscape architecture were systematically analyzed using critical discourse analysis (CDA) from the perspectives of intuitive impressions, knowledge representation, and social practices. 
  This study found that landscape architecture presents various media image characteristics on social media platforms, such as "lagging and marginalization", "simplification and height decreasing", and "urban wonders and industrial disorders", which deviate from disciplinary development status and professional knowledge connotations. 
  Details are introduced as follows: 
  (1)  Regarding intuitive impressions, discussions primarily focus on perceptual experience and industrial anxiety but pay little attention to academic research directions. 
  (2) Regarding knowledge representation, professional knowledge is simplified into visual expressions and operation skills, lacking leading theories and technological discussions, thus causing misunderstanding of "low threshold". 
  (3) Regarding social practice, design works are expressed as wonders, and industrial ecological issues are amplified through emotional narration, which further intensifies public misunderstanding and negative cognition of the industry. 
  Further analysis revealed that such media image dislocation is influenced not only by technological factors like the dominance of platform algorithms and disordered mechanism of transmission, but also thoroughly reflects structural shortages of the landscape architecture discipline and industry in terms of a knowledge spreading mechanism, the establishment of the right of speech, and practice norms. 
  To respond to challenges in knowledge spreading brought by social media and the dislocated building of the disciplinary image, the study suggests reconstructing disciplinary media images of landscape architecture via three aspects: (1) promoting the systematic intervention of disciplinary structure and industrial organization, strengthening knowledge system dissemination and public discourse expression; (2) improving media awareness and expression ability of professional members, realizing the transition from "passive misreading" to "positive construction"; and (3) building a knowledge spreading matrix with multi-platform cooperation, and systematically constructing a public-oriented knowledge spreading mechanism by integrating media such as illustrations, videos, and live broadcasting. The aim is to build a disciplinary image of landscape architecture with both professional depth and public influence in the mediated society. Limited by sample selection and differences among platforms, this study focuses only on highly-liked content on Zhihu and Rednote, and does not comprehensively cover the diversified expression of landscape architecture in more extensive social media contexts. Moreover, the dynamic process of media image over time was ignored. Future studies could increase time span and multimodal data to analyze user behaviors and compare differences across various social media platforms. This would more systematically disclose the generation logics and cognitive mechanisms of landscape architecture’s media images, and provide more specific knowledge spreading strategies for disciplinary theory establishment and practice transformation in the digital era.


Key words: landscape architecture, social media, media image, critical discourse analysis, content analysis

摘要: 剖析风景园林在社交媒体中的媒介形象,可以厘清其在媒介化社会中的学科定位与公众认知偏差。以知乎和小红书两大平台为例,采用批评话语分析法,结合定量与定性研究方法,从直观印象、知识表征与社会实践三个层面,揭示风景园林媒介形象的表现特征与建构机制。研究发现,当前平台中的风景园林形象呈现简化、边缘化与奇观化等倾向,反映出传播机制失序、学科话语权薄弱以及行业实践困境等多重问题。基于此,提出需从体制建设、个体表达和传播机制三方面协同发力,推动风景园林媒介形象的主动建构与正向引导,以增强学科影响力和社会认同。

关键词: 风景园林, 社交媒体, 媒介形象, 批评话语分析, 内容分析

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