Tourism Social Media

Transformations in Identity, Community and Culture

Bibliographic Data

ID19938220
AuthorsLiping A Cai (0000-0003-3346-906X), Jafar Jafari, Szilvia Gyimóthy (0000-0002-1556-5632), Ana María Munar (0000-0002-1887-2304), Liping Cai (0000-0002-7324-7392)
Year2013
Pages250
Publication date2013-07-18
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueTourism Social Media (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherEmerald Group Publishing Limited (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1108/s1571-5043(2013)18
OpenAlexW4250163882
ISBN9781781902134
Open LibraryOL33285978M
LanguageEN
Citations received10

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

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Geography · Identity (music) · Political science · Social group · Social identity theory · Social media · Social science · Sociology · Tourism · Digital Marketing and Social Media · Data processing

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