Instagram-ing tourism : re-evaluating ‘tourist gaze’ in web 2.0

• Main Author: Hongadi, Jacqueline
• Other Authors: Patrick Williams
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/62446
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper attempts to re-evaluate existing understandings of John Urry’s (2002) ‘tourist gaze’ and investigate if a ‘hermeneutic circle of reproduction’ indeed exists on Instagram by using tourist photographs of Singapore as a tourist destination as data for research. By comparing findings drawn fr...