Along Similar Lines: Does Travel Content Follow Foreign News Flows?

Hanusch, Folker

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“…Travelers acknowledge different ways of seeing and being, recognize that the people they see overseas are not fixed, awaiting the tourist to spring into performance; their lives exist beyond the tourist gaze. Travel bloggers appear to be more open to such attitudinal mobility, while still often remaining moored in the stereotypes of traditional touristic interaction, just as travel journalists routinely report locals only in tourist industry roles (Hanusch, 2014). One area for further study is when travelers, journalists, and bloggers, remain moored, and when they allow for mobility.…”

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‘The locals are friendly!’ An empirical analysis of mobility and mooring in travel blogs

Duffy

2016

Information, Communication & Society

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While relations of power have been a repeated theme in studies on textual representations of guest-host interaction in travel and tourism, the emerging genre of travel blogs may offer a new perspective. This paper introduces the mobility/mooring paradigm as a framework for examining communications, looking initially at travel blogs. It proposes that bloggers both 'moor' their interactions with foreign locals in existing archetypes by representing them in stereotypical or generic terms; and represent them in 'mobile' terms, as individuals whose meaning is negotiable rather than fixed. Through qualitative and quantitative content analysis of travel blog posts, it finds that bloggers mostly report local people in positive terms, that these inhabitants written about mostly work in the tourism and service industries, and are mostly reported in 'mobile' terms that allows for renegotiation of their identity through interaction. The implications for research into power in travel texts are discussed, as well as suggestions for future use of the mobilities/mooring paradigm in communication studies. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Conclusion Limitations and Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘The locals are friendly!’ An empirical analysis of mobility and mooring in travel blogs

Duffy

2016

Information, Communication & Society

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Along Similar Lines: Does Travel Content Follow Foreign News Flows?

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‘The locals are friendly!’ An empirical analysis of mobility and mooring in travel blogs

‘The locals are friendly!’ An empirical analysis of mobility and mooring in travel blogs

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