Deepti Ruth Azariah

Tourism, Travel, and Blogging

A discursive analysis of online travel narratives

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines travel blogs and their associated social media as a form of self-presentation that negotiates the tensions between discourses of travel and tourism.

Produktdetails

• New Directions in Tourism Analysis
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 298g
• ISBN-13: 9780367668037
• ISBN-10: 0367668033
• Artikelnr.: 59992847

Autorenporträt

Deepti Ruth Azariah teaches professional writing and publishing, creative writing, and web communication in the School of Media, Culture, and Creative Arts, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia. Her research interests include discourse analysis, travel writing, and digital publishing. She has also taught mass communication at the University of Mumbai and has published a number of short stories for children with The Hindu, an Indian national daily.

Inhaltsangabe

Lists of figures
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: tourism, travel, and blogging
2 A pioneer in the blogosphere: Tony Wheeler's Travels
3 The voice(s) in the paratext: presenting the author(s) of sponsored
travel blogs
4 With the reader in mind: self-presentation and the independent travel
blog
5 Beyond the borders of the blog: the networked self of the independent
travel blogger
6 Worth a thousand words (or more): framing the discursive tensions in
travel photographs
7 Mapping the travel blog: conclusions on the discourses of travel and
tourism
Index