Travel connections
Subtitle: tourism, technology, and togetherness in a mobile world
By: by Jennie Germann Molz
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: International library of sociology
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780415682855; 9780203123096
Subjects: Social aspects; Culture and tourism; Technological innovations; Tourism; Online social networks
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction : tourism, technology and togetherness in a mobile world; title: Fieldwork on the move : mobile virtual ethnography; title: Landscape : connecting to place, connected places; title: Gaze : mobilizing and mediating the tourist gaze; title: Hospitality : the mobile conviviality of couchsurfing; title: Authenticity : representation, commodification, and re-enchantment; title: Escape : unplugging from modernity; title: Conclusion : performing mobile sociality; title: Bibliography; title: Notes.