Experiencing the unfamiliar through mobile gameplay: Pokémon Go as augmented tourism

• Main Author: WOODS, Orlando
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
• Subjects: Pokémon Go; digital; augmented tourism; mobile gameplay; encounter; Singapore; Civic and Community Engagement; Leisure Studies
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3198
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Whilst tourism involves encountering the unfamiliar, digital technologies play an increasingly prominent role in mediating these encounters. Augmented reality applications can cause encounters with the unfamiliar to become relational constructs, as difference is mediated through the familiar interfa...