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Travel connections : tourism, technology, and togetherness in a mobile world / Jennie Germann Molz.
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Molz, Jennie Germann, 1969-
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Language
English
Published/Created
London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
Description
198 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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HM742 .M65 2012
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Online social networks
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Tourism
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Social aspects
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Tourism
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Technological innovations
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Culture and tourism
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Series
International library of sociology
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Summary note
Living in a world that is increasingly 'on the move' means that many of us now rely on mobile devices, social media, and networking technologies to coordinate togetherness with our social networks even when we are apart. Nowhere is this phenomenon more evident than in the emerging practices of 'interactive travel'. Today's travellers are more likely than ever to pack a laptop or a mobile phone and to use these devices to stay in touch with friends and family members, as well as to connect with strangers and other travellers, while they are on the road. New practices such as location-aware navigating, travel blogging, flashpacking and Couchsurfing now shape the way travellers engage with each other, with their social networks, and with the world around them. Travel Connections prompts a rethinking of the key paradigms in tourism studies in the digital age. Interactive travel calls into question longstanding tourism concepts such as landscape, the tourist gaze, hospitality, authenticity and escape. The book proposes a range of new concepts to describe the way tourists inhabit the world and engage with their social networks in the twenty-first century: smart tourism, the mediated gaze, mobile conviviality, re-enchantment and embrace. Based on intensive fieldwork with interactive travellers, this book offers a detailed account of this emerging phenomenon and uncovers the new forms of mediated and face-to-face togetherness that become possible in a mobile world.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction : tourism, technology and togetherness in a mobile world
Fieldwork on the move : mobile virtual ethnography
Landscape : connecting to place, connected places
Gaze : mobilizing and mediating the tourist gaze
Hospitality : the mobile conviviality of couchsurfing
Authenticity : representation, commodification, and re-enchantment
Escape : unplugging from modernity
Conclusion : performing mobile sociality
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ISBN
9780415682855 ((hardback))
0415682851 ((hardback))
9780203123096 ((ebook))
0203123093 ((ebook))
LCCN
2011040534
OCLC
711041569
Other standard number
7071146
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