Time to Go

Aspirational Framing and Place-Making in Domestic Travel Journalism

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12909402
AutoresIvy Ashe (0000-0002-8636-052X, Florida Atlantic University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen19
Número6
Páginas1344-1361
Fecha de publicación2023-08-09
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournalism Practice (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1751-2786 • E-ISSN: 1751-2794
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17512786.2023.2244931
OpenAlexW4385723492
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas44

Recent studies in lifestyle journalism point to the importance of aspiration as a guiding point for how practicing journalists report and present their stories. Aspiration emphasizes an ideal lifestyle, one that is potentially accessible and achievable via one’s life choices—specifically, consumer choices. In this study, I use existing literature on lifestyle journalism to develop the concept of an aspirational frame, an analytic tool specific to consumer-centric texts. I then use interviews with American travel media producers to explore how the aspirational frame is constructed within travel journalism, one subgenre of lifestyle journalism. Five elements of aspiration are discussed: accessibility, advice, aesthetics, authenticity, and discovery. Results show that authenticity is particularly prized by travel journalists in their work. Findings also highlight how time—specifically journalists’ awareness that their audiences must give up time in order to travel—influences production processes. Journalists seek to give audiences something of value in return for this time. Additionally, journalists seek to upend, rather than confirm, people’s preconceptions about places through their writing and photography.KEYWORDS: travel journalismframinglifestyle journalisminterviewsqualitative aspiration AcknowledgementsThe author would like to thank the travel journalists who provided their time and professional insight during interviews, as well as the Journalism Practice reviewers for their thoughtful and engaged comments. Mary Angela Bock, Tom Johnson, Renita Coleman, Shanti Kumar, and Donna DeCesare offered feedback on earlier versions of this work.Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 The horse race frame presents political campaigning in terms of who is leading in polls, as compared to what candidates offer policy-wise.2 The Tulsa Massacre, also known as the Attack on Greenwood, refers to the looting of and rioting in an affluent Black community in Tulsa, Oklahama, in 1921. Historians believe more than 300 people died. White mobs also burned down 35 city blocks and more than 1,200 buildings, leaving hundreds of Black citizens homeless (Tulsa Historical Society and Museum Citationn.d.)Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the School of Journalism and Media, University of Texas at Austin

Advertising · Aesthetics · Art · Business · Framing (construction · Journalism · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · History · Law · Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis · Media Studies and Communication · Media, Gender, and Advertising