The Instagram Interview
Talking to People About Travel Experiences Across Online and Offline Spaces
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21225670 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Larissa Hugentobler (0000-0003-0663-4904, University of Zurich, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 247-260 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-28 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Media and Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2183-2439 • E-ISSN: 2183-2439 |
| Publisher | Cogitatio (PUBLISHER • PT) |
| DOI | 10.17645/mac.v10i3.5340 |
| OpenAlex | W4297491263 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 41 |
Studying visitors’ experiences with cultural sites has been complicated by the availability of internet-connected mobile devices. Simply observing visitors on site is no longer sufficient since they can interact with a site offline and online: before, during, and after their visit. Furthermore, cultural sites are as much sites of cultural heritage as they are sites of tourism. To study such complex experiences, new approaches to the study of human interactions with cultural sites must be developed; these methods must account for the fact that the offline and online realms can no longer be considered separate. In this article, I introduce the method of the Instagram interview as applied in an Instagram ethnography, contextualized by my project on visitor experiences of a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, DC, where I interviewed visitors after their visit. The Instagram interview helps study a dispersed population that engages, through Instagram posts, with one physical location and its narratives, allowing conclusions about visitor experiences of the site and the role of Instagram in this context. When constructing the Instagram interview in a manner that corresponds to platform conventions, it produces personal, in-depth narratives about the interviewee’s experiences. Conceptualizing the experience of a memorial as expanding beyond the space and time of the site visit, the Instagram interview is suitable for holistically studying visitors’ complex experiences: before, during, and after their visits, as it recognizes that offline and online interactions with the site are part of the same experience
Advertising · Art · Ethnography · Internet privacy · Media studies · Narrative · Online and offline · Population · Sociology · The Internet · Visitor pattern · World Wide Web · Anthropology · Computer Science · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research · Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods · History · Museums and Cultural Heritage · Psychology
MediaSpace
On Media Memory
Experteninterviews
The Qualified Self
Virtual Ethnography
Language and the Internet
The Life Story Interview
What We Instagram
MediaSpace
Introduction
Pictures Speak Louder than Words
E‐mail interviewing in qualitative research
No Incentives to Interact
Roles in Sociological Field Observations
Affordance, conventions, and design
Connecting with New Audiences
Analysis of Photo Sharing and Visual Social Relationships
Behind the screen of Facebook
From Cyber to Hybrid
Ideal image in process
Thinking Ethnographically
Difficult heritage and digital media
The Presentation of Self in the Age of Social Media
Three lies of digital ethnography
Do Shy People Prefer to Send E-Mail
Data Collection via In-Depth Email Interviewing
GangstaLife
Skype as a Tool for Qualitative Research Interviews
Producing In Situ Data From a Distance With Mobile Instant Messaging Interviews (MIMIs)
Email Interviews
Researching online populations
| Citations per year | 1.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |