1st Edition
Travel Connections Tourism, Technology and Togetherness in a Mobile World
1. Introduction: Tourism, Technology and Togetherness in a Mobile World 2. Fieldwork on the Move: Mobile Virtual Ethnography 3. Landscape: Connecting to Place, Connected Places 4. Gaze: Mobilizing and Mediating the Tourist Gaze 5. Hospitality: The Mobile Conviviality of CouchSurfing 6. Authenticity: Representation, Commodification and Re-enchantment 7. Escape: Unplugging from Modernity 8. Conclusion: Performing Mobile Sociality
Biography
Jennie Germann Molz is an assistant professor of Sociology at the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts. Her research focuses on the social and civic implications of tourism mobilities and technology. She is the co-editor of Mobilizing Hospitality and an editor of the journal Hospitality & Society. She has published extensively on the topics of tourism, mobility, hospitality, globalization, cosmopolitanism and new technologies.
"Informative and insightful." - S. A. Mason, CHOICE, Vol. 50, No. 07
"The text is structured in 8 fascinating chapters, which explore how technology has forged a new sense of being together during travels... This book exhibits a masterful theoretical background that enthralls it as one of the best studies I have read in the fields of cultural studies."— Maximiliano E Korstanje, Tourism Analysis: an interdisciplinary Journal
