Neither here nor there? The transformation of place, performance, people, and power relations through travelers' social web

• Main Author: Duffy, Andrew
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Social sciences::Communication; Absent Presence; Cultural Studies
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/146722
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Smartphones and the social web provide innovative ways to connect, notably in the tourism context. Anecdotes abound of backpackers absorbed in their smartphones or lurking in coffee shops on laptops. It remains unclear whether such preoccupation with the social web, which provides connection with ho...