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<br>Dear colleagues,
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<br>We would like to invite paper submissions to the IUAES 2019 panel on
<br>"Mediating Travel: Digital Media, Tourism, and the Cosmopolitan Self in a
<br>Hyperconnected World", co-convened by Regev Nathansohn (Department of
<br>Communication, Sapir Academic College) and Christian Ritter (MEDIT, Tallinn
<br>University).
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<br>*Panel title:*
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<br>Mediating Travel: Digital Media, Tourism, and the Cosmopolitan Self in a
<br>Hyperconnected World [Commission on the Anthropology of Tourism]
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<br>*Short abstract:*
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<br>Digital media technologies have transformed the relationships between hosts
<br>and guests in tourist places. Inviting theoretical and empirical
<br>contributions from the global south and north, this panel seeks to gain new
<br>understandings of the mutual shaping of cosmopolitan selves and digital
<br>media.
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<br>*Long abstract:*
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<br>Digital media technologies have profoundly reshaped travel practices and
<br>tourist places. The Internet and digital platforms created a new realm of
<br>experience within the global tourism industry, transforming the complex
<br>relationships between hosts and guests. On the one hand, tourist blogs
<br>disseminate travel narratives and visual representations of tourism sites
<br>while reconfiguring the manifold tourism imaginaries. On the other hand,
<br>tourism organizations adapt to the ubiquitous use of mobile devices in
<br>everyday life by circulating more audio-visual content about tourist
<br>destinations. In addition to tourism agencies, mobile applications mediate
<br>among tourism actors at the global-local nexus. The authenticity of tourism
<br>actors, services and objects is increasingly staged on the screens of
<br>mobile devices, changing tourism culture in unprecedented ways. From Airbnb
<br>to augmented reality apps new possibilities for solidarity between hosts
<br>and guests and for the discovery of tourism sites are enabled, and
<br>sometimes prevented. Bringing together tourism scholars who
<br>ethnographically explore the digitalization of tourism, and digital
<br>ethnographers who study the field of tourism, this panel seeks to gain new
<br>understandings of the mutual shaping of cosmopolitan selves and digital
<br>media.
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<br>We invite theoretical contributions and empirical case studies on the
<br>different roles of digital media in contemporary tourism in the global
<br>south and north. In what ways does digitalization reshape cosmopolitan
<br>selves and solidarities between locals and tourists? How is the
<br>authenticity of subjectivities digitally mediated and interpreted in a
<br>context of widening dissemination of fake information? What are the
<br>epistemological consequences of studying digitized tourist places?
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<br>*Paper Proposal Submission*
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<br>Submission guidelines: https://www.iuaes2019.org/paper-guidelines
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<br>Submission portal: https://iuaes2019.syskonf.pl/abstracts
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<br>*Deadline*: 15 February 2019
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<br>If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us.
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<br>With best wishes,
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<br>Christian & Regev
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