- Tytuł:
- Backpackers as a Community of Strangers: The Interaction Order of an Online Backpacker Notice Board
- Autorzy:
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Adkins, Barbara
Grant, Eryn - Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/2138242.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2007-08-15
- Wydawca:
- Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
- Tematy:
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Backpackers
Interaction Order
Cosmopolitanism
Information and Communication
Technology - Opis:
- While commercial images of “backpacking” emphasise adventure, youth and sightseeing, recent ethnographies of backpackers identify other motivations and rationales that accentuate travel experiences as formative of the self and identity. This raises the question of the basis of this apparently common orientation. This paper investigates, through analysis of postings on an electronic backpacker notice board, “backpacker” as a collaboratively constructed category. We propose that the shared understandings of “backpacker” enabled by these notice boards are consistent with cultural orientations captured in notions of cosmopolitanism (Beck 2000) involving a shift to new forms of sociality across borders: a solidarity with strangers.
- Źródło:
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Qualitative Sociology Review; 2007, 3, 2; 188-201
1733-8077 - Pojawia się w:
- Qualitative Sociology Review
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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