Two-way street : how smartphones and the social web impact the traveller’s liminal gaze

• Main Author: Duffy, Andrew
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Mobile Communication; Power; DRNTU::Social sciences::Communication
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/104809; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/48073
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Travellers have long inhabited a liminal position between home and away. Now they also have a bridging foot in cyberspace, as Internet-enabled smartphones mediate their travel experience. Social-web-assisted mobility means that gazing down at a smartphone screen can either enhance or hamper a tra...