Carissa Baker
Biographic Data
| ID | 6738973 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carissa Baker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carissa |
| FAMILY NAME | Baker |
| SIGNATURE | BAKER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Central Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2146-259X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Encounters in wartime
The city archives of ‘s-Hertogenbosch (the Netherlands) hold extensive World War II heritage, including diaries, letters, and photographs. To bring these stories to life an interactive exhibit was developed entitled ‘Encounters in Wartime’. This mobile, interactive exhibit, uses speech recognition technology to enable visitors to engage with three WWII-era characters through interactive dialogues. Using the four-stage conceptual model of virtual …
Measuring the perceived impacts of tourism
Tourism brings with it several positive and negative impacts on destination communities. However, the real impacts of tourism are different from residents’ perspectives, which are shaped by multiple factors. The literature asserted a need for a more resident-oriented evaluation of tourism impacts, and this study aimed to develop and validate a scale to measure residents’ perceptions of tourism impacts following the inductive scale development pro…
Leveraging historical hospitality in the national parks
This conceptual paper examines the Fred Harvey Company, a key entity that helped develop tourism at Southwestern national parks, in particular Grand Canyon National Park and Petrified Forest National Park. The article describes some of the influences of this organization on the image of tourism in the Southwest, from the thematic design of spaces to the commercializing of Native American cultural heritage. After examining these impacts, the conte…
Welcome to the magic
The current study qualitatively investigates how fans of the Disney Theme Parks are introduced to the brand and how they perceive Disney and Universal Parks. Findings indicate that family plays a very important role in both introducing and building loyalty toward Disney and the Disney Parks. Further, both family and positive memory play an integral role in encouraging fans to continue their fandom of the Disney Parks. Finally, fans report favorit…
A Chinese ‘High-Tech Theme Park Full of Stories’
Among the Chinese companies that run the great majority of theme parks in China, Fantawild is the quickest-expanding one, with more than two dozen full-fledged theme parks and many in development. The newest of their three primary theme park models, Oriental Heritage, employs traditional Chinese cultural material and specifically Chinese folklore and legends for its attractions and shows. The park thus differentiates itself not only from Fangte's…
Roller Coaster Dream
Roller Coaster Dream, a Chinese roller coaster enthusiast club, is a good example of an emerging fanbase in a rapidly developing theme park market
The prevalence of storyworlds and thematic landscapes in global theme parks
Narrative has been emerging as a more prevalent concept in tourism contexts, but it has been less defined in literature on theme parks. This study, which investigates the leading 77 theme parks in three regions (North America, Asia, Europe), explores the presence of thematic and narrative features: themed lands, common themes, themed rides, narrative rides, explicit storytelling, and implicit storytelling. Results show that a great majority of th…
Creating virtual homes during Covid-19
Theme parks are sites of popular imagination and cultural touchstones. What the COVID-19 pandemic taught is that they are also compelling when closed. This article focuses on fannish activities exemplified by imaginative posts and sweding videos from #HomemadeDisney and others during the period when global Disney theme parks were closed. This hashtag became a virtual communal space, the site of anxiety and brand loyalty but also invention and cre…
Theme park fandom
Review of Rebecca Williams, Theme park fandom: Spatial transmedia, materiality and participatory cultures. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020, hardcover, €99 (260p), ISBN 9789462982574
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Theme park fandom
Review of Rebecca Williams, Theme park fandom: Spatial transmedia, materiality and participatory cultures. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020, hardcover, €99 (260p), ISBN 9789462982574
A Chinese ‘High-Tech Theme Park Full of Stories’
Among the Chinese companies that run the great majority of theme parks in China, Fantawild is the quickest-expanding one, with more than two dozen full-fledged theme parks and many in development. The newest of their three primary theme park models, Oriental Heritage, employs traditional Chinese cultural material and specifically Chinese folklore and legends for its attractions and shows. The park thus differentiates itself not only from Fangte's…
Roller Coaster Dream
Roller Coaster Dream, a Chinese roller coaster enthusiast club, is a good example of an emerging fanbase in a rapidly developing theme park market
The prevalence of storyworlds and thematic landscapes in global theme parks
Narrative has been emerging as a more prevalent concept in tourism contexts, but it has been less defined in literature on theme parks. This study, which investigates the leading 77 theme parks in three regions (North America, Asia, Europe), explores the presence of thematic and narrative features: themed lands, common themes, themed rides, narrative rides, explicit storytelling, and implicit storytelling. Results show that a great majority of th…
Creating virtual homes during Covid-19
Theme parks are sites of popular imagination and cultural touchstones. What the COVID-19 pandemic taught is that they are also compelling when closed. This article focuses on fannish activities exemplified by imaginative posts and sweding videos from #HomemadeDisney and others during the period when global Disney theme parks were closed. This hashtag became a virtual communal space, the site of anxiety and brand loyalty but also invention and cre…
Welcome to the magic
The current study qualitatively investigates how fans of the Disney Theme Parks are introduced to the brand and how they perceive Disney and Universal Parks. Findings indicate that family plays a very important role in both introducing and building loyalty toward Disney and the Disney Parks. Further, both family and positive memory play an integral role in encouraging fans to continue their fandom of the Disney Parks. Finally, fans report favorit…
Measuring the perceived impacts of tourism
Tourism brings with it several positive and negative impacts on destination communities. However, the real impacts of tourism are different from residents’ perspectives, which are shaped by multiple factors. The literature asserted a need for a more resident-oriented evaluation of tourism impacts, and this study aimed to develop and validate a scale to measure residents’ perceptions of tourism impacts following the inductive scale development pro…
Leveraging historical hospitality in the national parks
This conceptual paper examines the Fred Harvey Company, a key entity that helped develop tourism at Southwestern national parks, in particular Grand Canyon National Park and Petrified Forest National Park. The article describes some of the influences of this organization on the image of tourism in the Southwest, from the thematic design of spaces to the commercializing of Native American cultural heritage. After examining these impacts, the conte…
Encounters in wartime
The city archives of ‘s-Hertogenbosch (the Netherlands) hold extensive World War II heritage, including diaries, letters, and photographs. To bring these stories to life an interactive exhibit was developed entitled ‘Encounters in Wartime’. This mobile, interactive exhibit, uses speech recognition technology to enable visitors to engage with three WWII-era characters through interactive dialogues. Using the four-stage conceptual model of virtual …
Tourism (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · History (5 works) · Media, Gender, and Advertising (5 works) · Theme park (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Business (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Media studies (4 works)