Travel Connections: Tourism, Technology and Togetherness in a Mobile World (International Library of Sociology)
Автор:Jennie Germann Molz Год: 2012 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 216 ISBN: 0415682851 Living in a world that is increasingly a??on the movea?? 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 a??interactive travela??. Todaya??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 a?? as well as to connect with strangers and other travellers a?? 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,...
