Visualising lives: “the selfie” as travel writing

Cardell, Kylie; Douglas, Kate

doi:10.1080/13645145.2018.1463843

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“…According to Camprubi and Rojas (2021), the literature in this field has not yet addressed the content and backgrounds shown in selfies. Similarly, Douglas and Cardell's (2018) interdisciplinary approach emphasizes the storytelling power of selfies, which has not yet been thoroughly investigated. Additionally, Georgakopoulou (2016) also investigates the practise of sharing selfies in the context of short stories.…”

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Tourists’ selfies storytelling: Preferences, intentions, and concerns for practise in the tourism and hospitality industry

Elshaer

Huang

Marzouk

2022

Journal of Vacation Marketing

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Photography has recently received significant academic interest as a popular tourist activity. However, tourist selfie practises have not yet been thoroughly examined by tourism scholars. This study aimed to investigate tourist selfies storytelling and to determine if tourists'selfies at tourist destinations reveal specific aspects of the host destination, implying an embodiment of particular preferences, intentions, and motivations. In this study, an exploratory analysis employing a two-step qualitative approach was conducted. A semiotic analysis of 317 tourist selfie photos and two phases of in-depth interviews with eleven tourists visiting Egypt on a 7-day packaged tour were used. The findings reveal that tourists prefer to capture host communities’ appearance and attributes in their selfies for different motivations and intentions. Intentions regarding impressions, advertisements, suggestions, and descriptions for these attributes were the intentions that shaped the tourists’ selfie practise. This study contributes to our understanding of the content of travel-related selfies and tourist behaviour at destinations. It proposes management implications to assist tourism and hospitality professionals in engaging with and profiting from tourists’ selfies practise.

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Tourists’ selfies storytelling: Preferences, intentions, and concerns for practise in the tourism and hospitality industry

Elshaer

Huang

Marzouk

2022

Journal of Vacation Marketing

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“…or only one platform (Lou & Yuan, 2019), when it comes to destinations, the most active place of communication seems to be Instagram (Vrana, Khan, Karavasilis, Kehris, & Kydros, 2019), due to its visual nature that allows photo and video editing and sharing (Sheldon & Bryant, 2016). Apart from visuals, Instagram also promotes the use of hashtags (Gretzel, 2017b), which allows them to situate and archive posts and pictures within a specific genre (Cardell & Douglas, 2018). As per 2019, there were 452 million posts with #travel, 96.4 million posts with #travelphotography and 49.7 million posts with #travelblogger hashtags on Instagram.…”

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Emerging Influencers Promoting Travel: The Case of Local Tourism in Latvia

Berjozkina

Garanti

2020

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The presence of social networks has given a chance for social media influencers to emerge. Social media influencers creating and sharing content, endorsed or not, has become a growing marketing trend used by companies, as well as destinations. This article focuses on travel influencers who, with a help of social networks, particularly Instagram, are promoting local travel in Latvia. In this study, four emerging travel influencers and their posts were retrieved and analysed. The study results show that emerging travel influencers are trying to attract their followers by mostly sharing posts with landscapes and nature, art objects/statues, and nature activities/facilities. However, traditional artwork/objects, religious buildings/objects, and traditional or historic buildings are the pictures achieving the highest engagement rates. Finally, the study also relieved that influencers with a lower number of followers have a higher level of engagement. It is concluded that authenticity and individuality of account, as well as its organic, rather than paid growth, are the key aspects in creating a travel account that followers would engage (like, share and comment on the content). The theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

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“…Sorokowski et al (Sorokowski, P 2015), for example, have examined men's selfie-taking behaviour and linked the tendency to take and post selfies to narcissism among men. An interdisciplinary approach by Douglas and Cardell (2018), who investigate how selfies can be read in autobiographical travel narratives in their article 'Visualising Lives: The Selfie as Travel Writing', highlights the narrative power of selfies that has not been explored deeply yet. Furthermore, Georgakopoulou (2016) investigates the act of posting selfies in the context of small stories.…”

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The travel selfie: Exploring the writer’s vision in contemporary travel writing

Jatschka

2019

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In 2013, the Oxford Dictionary declared 'selfie' the word of the year, defining this phenomenon as 'a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and shared via social media' (BBC News, 2013). Instagram and personal travel blogs seem to be some of the most popular platforms enabling travel writers to express themselves through selfies, aka travel selfies. Many studies revolving around the culture of travel selfies have been conducted to better understand tourist behaviour, tourist marketing and consumer habits. However, there is a lack of interdisciplinary research surrounding this complex socio-cultural phenomenon. Travel selfies, although popular, often spark controversy and in some places, travel selfies are prohibited for safety reasons or to show respect at memorial sites. Selfies are often considered narcissistic and therefore, sometimes frowned upon by society. In this paper, I explore the larger socio-cultural complexities of travel selfies and explore what a travel selfie may contribute to a writer's travel account by investigating how the rise of the travel selfie has shaped the travel writer's personal vision that usually evolves throughout the writing process.

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Visualising lives: “the selfie” as travel writing

Cited by 11 publications

References 8 publications

Tourists’ selfies storytelling: Preferences, intentions, and concerns for practise in the tourism and hospitality industry

Tourists’ selfies storytelling: Preferences, intentions, and concerns for practise in the tourism and hospitality industry

Emerging Influencers Promoting Travel: The Case of Local Tourism in Latvia

The travel selfie: Exploring the writer’s vision in contemporary travel writing

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