Tourism, Travel, and Blogging: A Discursive Analysis of Online Travel Narratives

ISBN-13: 9780367668037 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 180 str.

Deepti Ruth Azariah

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.