Paper Info
Title
The 'Selfie Gaze' and 'Social Media Pilgrimage' - Two Frames for Conceptualising the Experience of Social Media Using Tourists.
Abstract
This paper is concerned with the personal usage of social media to record and share travel experience and the impacts this has upon the practice of travel. It presents two conceptual frames for understanding the use of social media during a journey: firstly, the concept of ‘selfie gaze’ builds on John Urry’s (The tourist gaze: Travel and leisure in contemporary societies. Sage, London, 1990) seminal theory of the “tourist gaze” in order to explain how the presence of a social media audience influences the tourist’s perception of travel. Second, the concept of ‘social media pilgrimage’ highlights how the usage of social media during travel produces a specific set of behaviours which are related to internet usage and the online persona of the traveller. These frames build upon the author’s previous empirical research on social media usage during travel and form part of a larger interpretivistic study into the relationship between online and offline travel texts.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1007/978-3-319-28231-2_13
ENTER
Field
DocType
Citations 
Social media,Contemporary society,Media studies,Gaze,Sociology,Persona,Tourism,Selfie,Online and offline,Multimedia,The Internet
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Michelangelo Magasic100.68