Jennie Germann Molz

Travel Connections (eBook, ePUB)

Tourism, Technology and Togetherness in a Mobile World

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a detailed and unified account of travelers' lived experiences of travel and technology use, and an ethnographically-informed analysis of the social, cultural and spatial implications of the intersection between travel and technology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136337031
• Artikelnr.: 38256257

Autorenporträt

Jennie Germann Molz is an assistant professor of Sociology at the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts. Her research focuses on the social and civic implications of tourism mobilities and technology. She is the co-editor of Mobilizing Hospitality and an editor of the journal Hospitality & Society. She has published extensively on the topics of tourism, mobility, hospitality, globalization, cosmopolitanism and new technologies.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Tourism, Technology and Togetherness in a Mobile World 2.
Fieldwork on the Move: Mobile Virtual Ethnography 3. Landscape: Connecting
to Place, Connected Places 4. Gaze: Mobilizing and Mediating the Tourist
Gaze 5. Hospitality: The Mobile Conviviality of CouchSurfing 6.
Authenticity: Representation, Commodification and Re-Enchantment 7. Escape:
Unplugging from Modernity 8. Conclusion: Performing Mobile Sociality