[Commlist] CFP: IUAES2019: Mediating Travel: Digital Media, Tourism, and the Cosmopolitan Self in a Hyperconnected World

We would like to invite paper submissions to the IUAES 2019 panel on 
*"Mediating Travel: Digital Media, Tourism, and the Cosmopolitan Self in 
a Hyperconnected World"*, co-convenedby Regev Nathansohn (Department of 
Communication, Sapir Academic College) and Christian Ritter (MEDIT, 
Tallinn University).


*Panel title:*

Mediating Travel: Digital Media, Tourism, and the Cosmopolitan Self in a 
Hyperconnected World [Commission on the Anthropology of Tourism]


*Short abstract:*

Digital media technologies have transformed the relationships between 
hosts and guests in tourist places. Inviting theoretical and empirical 
contributions from the global south and north, this panel seeks to gain 
new understandings of the mutual shaping of cosmopolitan selves and 
digital media.

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*Long abstract:*

Digital media technologies have profoundly reshaped travel practices and 
tourist places. The Internet and digital platforms created a new realm 
of experience within the global tourism industry, transforming the 
complex relationships between hosts and guests. On the one hand, tourist 
blogs disseminate travel narratives and visual representations of 
tourism sites while reconfiguring the manifold tourism imaginaries. On 
the other hand, tourism organizations adapt to the ubiquitous use of 
mobile devices in everyday life by circulating more audio-visual content 
about tourist destinations. In addition to tourism agencies, mobile 
applications mediate among tourism actors at the global-local nexus. The 
authenticity of tourism actors, services and objects is increasingly 
staged on the screens of mobile devices, changing tourism culture in 
unprecedented ways. From Airbnb to augmented reality apps new 
possibilities for solidarity between hosts and guests and for the 
discovery of tourism sites are enabled, and sometimes prevented. 
Bringing together tourism scholars who ethnographically explore the 
digitalization of tourism, and digital ethnographers who study the field 
of tourism, this panel seeks to gain new understandings of the mutual 
shaping of cosmopolitan selves and digital media.

We invite theoretical contributions and empirical case studies on the 
different roles of digital media in contemporary tourism in the global 
south and north. In what ways does digitalization reshape cosmopolitan 
selves and solidarities between locals and tourists? How is the 
authenticity of subjectivities digitally mediated and interpreted in a 
context of widening dissemination of fake information? What are the 
epistemological consequences of studying digitized tourist places?



*Paper Proposal Submission*

Submission guidelines: https://www.iuaes2019.org/paper-guidelines

Submission portal: https://iuaes2019.syskonf.pl/abstracts

*Deadline*: 15 February 2019



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