[Commlist] CFP: Special Issue “Emerging Media Technologies in the Tourist Encounter”

Special Issue “Emerging Media Technologies in the Tourist Encounter”


This special issue examines practices, meanings and impacts of emerging 
media technologies: digital, mobile, geo/locative and augmented reality 
technologies within tourism geographies. The special issue aims to 
situate emerging media technologies within processes of the production 
and transformation of space, spatial knowledge and social relations 
within the tourist encounter. We ask contributors to the special issue 
to consider: What are the configurations of different technologies 
involved with tourist experiences? In what ways do emerging media 
technologies shape tourism imaginaries and experiences? What are the 
particular cultural inflections in the relationship between digital and 
tourist practices? How do broader infrastructural and economic 
conditions shape the relationships between digital and tourist practices?


Papers in this special issue will explore the unfolding contexts of 
media, digital and emerging technologies in tourism geographies across 
breadth and depth and may include the following topics:


-Culturally and geographically situated explorations of digital 
practices in tourist sites (including empirical investigations into 
travel photography, virtual reality headsets, online travel writing, and 
travel vlogs)

-The role of emerging media technologies for wayfinding and placemaking

-Digital practices and infrastructures in relationship to tourism work 
and livelihoods

-Specific studies of social and digital media platforms and apps and 
tourist practices (eg. Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp)

-Specific studies of geo/locative and augmented reality technologies and 
tourist practices (eg. GoPro, WallaMe)

-Non-use and non-digital environments such as sacred and religious sites

-In-depth qualitative or ethnographic studies of emerging media 
technologies in literary tourism, film tourism, theme parks, fan 
tourism, music tourism, food tourism, heritage tourism, or roots tourism 
in comparative contexts (we particularly welcome studies situated in 
countries in the Global South)

-Tourism locations and technologies and of visual cultures

*Guest Editors: *

Jolynna Sinanan, University of Manchester

Christian Ritter, Erasmus University Rotterdam


*Contact email:*(emergingmediatourism /at/ gmail.com)

**

*Abstract submission: 15 Oct 2021 *

Full publication 
timeline:https://www.tgjournal.com/emerging-technologies.html 
<https://www.tgjournal.com/emerging-technologies.html>

(No payments are required from authors of accepted articles.)


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