‘The locals are friendly!’ An empirical analysis of mobility and mooring in travel blogs

• Main Author: Duffy, Andrew
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Travel; Tourism; DRNTU::Social sciences::Journalism
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/82951; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/48150
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

While relations of power have been a repeated theme in studies on textual representations of guest–host interaction in travel and tourism, the emerging genre of travel blogs may offer a new perspective. This paper introduces the mobility/mooring paradigm as a framework for examining communications,...