Fans and (Post)Subcultural ConsumerismIn this chapter, we will continue to explore the similarities and differences between “traditional” fans and “brand fans,” but with a greater emphasis on (post)subcultural aspects and fans as consumers in a capitalist consumer society. Concepts such as structure and agency will be discussed,...
(Fans and Fan Cultures: Tourism, Consumerism and Social Media)Fans and TourismThis chapter will provide insights into fandom-generated tourism, and bring some seemingly disparate areas together under the umbrella of fan tourism . For example, how are concepts such as fandom, fans, travel, social media, pilgrimage, niche tourism, microcelebrity and destination branding connected?...
(Fans and Fan Cultures: Tourism, Consumerism and Social Media)Social Media: Millennials, Brand Fans and the Branding of FansViewing various forms of consumption in the light of fandom as a balancing act might be fruitful to understand why and how the fan concept has changed and evolved so dramatically over the past decade or two. While being a fan is per definition a major occurrence (which takes both time and effort), it...
(Fans and Fan Cultures: Tourism, Consumerism and Social Media)Sharing and Participating: Fans and Social MediaSocial media has its benefits for businesses and individuals alike, and it has facilitated easier access to communities and networks that would otherwise be near impossible to locate and join. The “access,” however, travels both ways, and our propensity to post messages and status updates to social...
(Fans and Fan Cultures: Tourism, Consumerism and Social Media)“INTER-MEDIATING” GLOBAL MODERNITY: Benshi film narrators, multisensory performance, and fan cultureHistory and significance of benshi Despite the fact that the soundscape is an integral part of the cinematic experience, movies today are commonly described as something to “watch,” the specular verb serving as shorthand for experiencing a work that includes both visual and auditory' dimensions....
(Routledge Handbook of Japanese Cinema)Culture as Context in Social Network AnalysisWhen using SNA for comparative approaches (for instance in comparing different nations' carbon policy outcomes), it is important to remember that social networks around discourse and action emerge from and operate within a context. That is to say, neither actors, ideas or relationships are autonomous...
(Understanding Society and Natural Resources)Augmented Reality for Allowing Time Navigation in Cultural Tourism Experiences: A Case StudyAbstract. In the past few years, mobile phones have become an increasingly attractive platform for augmented reality. This paper describes the development of an interactive visualization system based on Augmented Reality Technologies and the integration into a tourist mobile application for Android....
(Augmented and Virtual Reality)Cultural TourismCultural tourism is a form of special interest tourism. Cultural tourists have been described as creative tourists when they are attracted to intangible cultural experiences that are co-created between the hosts and guests (Richards, 2011). The US Department of Commerce and the President’s Committee...
(Linking urban and rural tourism : strategies in sustainability)Sustainable Tourism as a Social MeasureSwarbrooke (1999: 13) defines sustainable tourism as “tourism which is economically viable, but does not destroy the resources on which the future tourism will depend, notably the physical environment and the social fabric of the host community.” This definition highlights three main points that...
(Tourism Management, Marketing, and Development: Performance, Strategies, and Sustainability)The Popular Cultural Politics of the Social FilmAs a result of this obfuscation, perhaps we have not quite understood the particular political articulation of the popular cinema of the 1950s. Nationalist discourses of that time about social justice and the formation of a new personality were then routed through familiar, if modified, cultural and...
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