Scripted Journeys

Author : Tom Nuenen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110700581
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scripted Journeys written by Tom Nuenen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ubiquity of computation in daily life has had decisive influence on the imaginative aspects of tourism. Online knowledge of the world is readily available through mapping services, social media, travel blogs, and online reviews. From booking and Googling, to posting and reminiscing: all stages of one’s trip can be guided and augmented by increasingly connective, personalized, and optimized algorithmic systems. In the face of this informational abundance, hypermediated tourism is fixated on access to authenticity. Peer to peer accommodation offers tourists a chance to "live like a local." Professional bloggers instruct not just on where, but on how to travel. Review websites aggregate the feedback of millions into "objective," data-driven authentication of destinations. And virtual technologies take users to places they could not dream of reaching physically. Based on a comparative ethnography of touristic blogs and vlogs, review websites, and video game environments, Scripted Journeys presents a critical analysis of touristic practice in digital ecologies. This hypermediated tourism engages technology as a harbinger of self-possession and waywardness, yet produces its own forms of digital dependence. The resulting "scripted journeys" internalize a tension between authenticity as autonomy and control, and the implicit compliance of making use of technological extensions.

Author : Tom Nuenen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783110700435
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scripted Journeys written by Tom Nuenen and published by . This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout recorded history, until a relatively short time ago, the idea of travel was associated with the adventure of entering unfamiliar or unknown territory, leading to new experiences that could be both amazing and frightening. Today, however, travel takes place in a world that is comprehensively known and mapped. Over a few decades, the expanding middle classes of the Global North have achieved greatly increased access to air and sea travel around the world. The ubiquity of computation in daily life has had a further decisive influence on the imaginative aspects of travel. Online distributed knowledge of the world is now readily available through services such as Google Maps, adventurous travel bloggers and reporters, or users on travel review platforms. From booking and 'reading up, ' to writing down and reminiscing: all stages of one's trip can be guided and augmented by increasingly connective, personalized, and optimized computational systems. It is this late modern infrastructure of tourism, increasingly efficient, calculable, and affordable, that is a cause of concern for the middle classes. In the face of informational abundance, digitally aided tourism is fixated on the access to authenticity. Lodging rental platform Airbnb advertises with the slogan Don't just go there, live there. Professional bloggers and vloggers instruct their audience not just on where, but on how to travel. Review website such as TripAdvisor aggregate millions of personal reviews to offer 'objective', data-driven authentication of places around the globe. And virtual experiences take players to places they could not dream of reaching themselves. The desire for authenticity and self-realization, however, often comes at the expense of ecological and social awareness. As 'tourists' become 'travelers', the world transforms into territory for leisure and materiality for their conspicuous consumption. Based on a comparative digital ethnography of 'platform tourism', which includes media such as blogs and vlogs, review websites, and video game environments, Scripted Journeys presents a critical analysis of digitally aided touristic practice and presentation, in which control and compliance are in constant tension. Conceptually, the book innovatively supplements anthropological work in tourism studies with theoretical and analytical perspectives from new media studies. Methodologically, it offers new pathways for examining online spaces and ways of interacting. Empirically, it discusses a wide range of phenomena--from rigid self-curation practices to gain clicks, to quantifiable evaluations of behavior, to navigation mechanics in digital games. In doing so, Scripted Journeys reveals the many ways in which people express themselves and their trips amidst the tightly circumscribed affordances of the digital.

Author : Tom van Nuenen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scripted Journeys written by Tom van Nuenen and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alex Kotlowitz
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 1400097509
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Never a City So Real written by Alex Kotlowitz and published by Crown. This book was released on 2004-07-06 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author of There Are No Children Here takes us into the heart of Chicago by introducing us to some of the city’s most interesting, if not always celebrated, people. Chicago is one of America’s most iconic, historic, and fascinating cities, as well as a major travel destination. For Alex Kotlowitz, an accidental Chicagoan, it is the perfect perch from which to peer into America’s heart. It’s a place, as one historian has said, of “messy vitalities,” a stew of contradictions: coarse yet gentle, idealistic yet restrained, grappling with its promise, alternately sure and unsure of itself. Chicago, like America, is a kind of refuge for outsiders. It’s probably why Alex Kotlowitz found comfort there. He’s drawn to people on the outside who are trying to clean up—or at least make sense of—the mess on the inside. Perspective doesn’t come easy if you’re standing in the center. As with There Are No Children Here, Never a City So Real is not so much a tour of a place as a chronicle of its soul, its lifeblood. It is a tour of the people of Chicago, who have been the author’s guides into this city’s—and in a broader sense, this country’s—heart. From the Hardcover edition.

Author : Michel Anteby
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022609250X
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manufacturing Morals written by Michel Anteby and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-08-28 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporate accountability is never far from the front page, and as one of the world’s most elite business schools, Harvard Business School trains many of the future leaders of Fortune 500 companies. But how does HBS formally and informally ensure faculty and students embrace proper business standards? Relying on his first-hand experience as a Harvard Business School faculty member, Michel Anteby takes readers inside HBS in order to draw vivid parallels between the socialization of faculty and of students. In an era when many organizations are focused on principles of responsibility, Harvard Business School has long tried to promote better business standards. Anteby’s rich account reveals the surprising role of silence and ambiguity in HBS’s process of codifying morals and business values. As Anteby describes, at HBS specifics are often left unspoken; for example, teaching notes given to faculty provide much guidance on how to teach but are largely silent on what to teach. Manufacturing Morals demonstrates how faculty and students are exposed to a system that operates on open-ended directives that require significant decision-making on the part of those involved, with little overt guidance from the hierarchy. Anteby suggests that this model—which tolerates moral complexity—is perhaps one of the few that can adapt and endure over time. Manufacturing Morals is a perceptive must-read for anyone looking for insight into the moral decision-making of today’s business leaders and those influenced by and working for them.

Author : Joseph Natoli
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791447710
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postmodern Journeys written by Joseph Natoli and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part memoir, part cultural criticism, this fast-paced ride through the postmodern landscape of American popular culture explores how our responses to headline events and popular films help script the ways in which we imagine ourselves and the world around us.

Author : DUANEIS THE GREAT WRITER
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1304145794
Total Pages : 645 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book THE NUWAVIS THE REAL ROD OF PURITY written by DUANEIS THE GREAT WRITER and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Duane was asked by The Real UNUversal Guides to update what Paul Twitchell had originally created and started, and this has become 'The AdventurIS Series,' by Duane The Great Writer. Duane was also asked to provide a NUReality for THE ROD OF POWER, which has now become THE NUWAVIS THE REAL ROD OF PURITY. For those who have The RealCourage and are shown, they will experience THE NUWAVIS, like never before. Duane is not here to prove anything to anyone, he is simply sharing his RealExperiences with all. The earth and all it entails will always be as it is, and it is not a matter of 'changing' anything here, but moreso to Become MoreAware in The TruSense. Duane is providing a way to RealGuidance and a RealEducation for RealTruth and RealFreedom. Each and every person must prove to themselves they are already a Being of Light, and not just a human body that grows old. There are many teachers and masters, but only The Real UNUversal Guides are Real! www.DuaneTheGreatWriter.Info

Author : DUANE THE GREAT WRITER
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1329534115
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Author : DUANE THE GREAT WRITER
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105555186
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Author : DUANE THE GREAT WRITER
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105492737
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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