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Title: Tourism Social Media
Condition: New
Subtitle: Transformations in Identity, Community and Culture
Author: Ana Maria Munar
Contributor: Ana Maria Munar (Edited by), Szilvia Gyimothy (Edited by), Liping Cai (Edited by)
Format: Hardback
EAN: 9781781902134
ISBN: 9781781902134
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Genre: Business & Finance
Topic: Films & TV
Release Date: 07/18/2013
Description: This volume addresses the transformative power of tourism social media and offers novel theoretical and methodological approaches to its academic investigation. Acknowledging the collective value creation mechanisms of new media, the authors explore how technology nurtures, augments and modifies social or commercial interactions in tourism. The book emphasizes the role of fantasy and imagination in fluid tourism experiences and critically scrutinizes contested concepts pertaining to human interaction in cyberspace, such as equality, anonymity, transparency, democratization, and publicity culture. The chapters summon insights from Media Studies, Actor-Network Theory, Communicative Action and Symbolic Convergence among others, and offer a palette of emerging methods suitable for academic enquiries of virtual worlds. The theoretical grounding, empirical evidences, and interdisciplinary analysis of the anthology expand the actual research agenda and shed light on conceptual tensions and ambiguities in the present literature. As such, Tourism Social Media: Transformations in Identity, Community and Culture contributes to increasing research reflexivity in tourism studies at large.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 234mm
Item Length: 156mm
Item Width: 23mm
Item Weight: 567g
Series: Tourism Social Science Series
Release Year: 2013

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