Peta Freestone
Biographic Data
| ID | 6662288 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peta Freestone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peta |
| FAMILY NAME | Freestone |
| SIGNATURE | FREESTONE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swinburne University of Technology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
From Star Trek to The Hunger Games
Research on emblems to date has not drawn on corpus methods that use public data. In this paper, we use corpus methods to explore the use of original fictional gestures in the real world. We look at two examples from popular science fiction, the Vulcan salute from Star Trek and the three-finger salute from The Hunger Games . First, a Twitter corpus of the Vulcan salute emoji shows that it is used to represent Star Trek fandom and wider nerd cultu…
For More than Just the Postcard’
This paper aims to locate student exchange as a mode of tourism within a sociological framework. Data was collected through in‐depth interviews with seven Australian undergraduate students who participated in an exchange program in 2005 or 2006. The results suggest that the exchange experience goes beyond tourism in the consumerist tradition of Urry's (2002a) influential The Tourist Gaze. Instead, participants identified their experience as a mor…
For More than Just the Postcard’
This paper aims to locate student exchange as a mode of tourism within a sociological framework. Data was collected through in‐depth interviews with seven Australian undergraduate students who participated in an exchange program in 2005 or 2006. The results suggest that the exchange experience goes beyond tourism in the consumerist tradition of Urry's (2002a) influential The Tourist Gaze. Instead, participants identified their experience as a mor…
For More than Just the Postcard’
This paper aims to locate student exchange as a mode of tourism within a sociological framework. Data was collected through in‐depth interviews with seven Australian undergraduate students who participated in an exchange program in 2005 or 2006. The results suggest that the exchange experience goes beyond tourism in the consumerist tradition of Urry's (2002a) influential The Tourist Gaze. Instead, participants identified their experience as a mor…
From Star Trek to The Hunger Games
Research on emblems to date has not drawn on corpus methods that use public data. In this paper, we use corpus methods to explore the use of original fictional gestures in the real world. We look at two examples from popular science fiction, the Vulcan salute from Star Trek and the three-finger salute from The Hunger Games . First, a Twitter corpus of the Vulcan salute emoji shows that it is used to represent Star Trek fandom and wider nerd cultu…
Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Anthropology (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Digital Communication and Language (1 work) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (1 work) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (1 work) · Emblem (1 work)