When Travel Meets Tourism: Tracing Discourse in Tony Wheeler's Blog
| dc.contributor.author | Azariah, Deepti | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-01-30T14:45:30Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-01-30T14:45:30Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2012-01-25T20:00:51Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Azariah, Deepti Ruth. 2011. When Travel Meets Tourism: Tracing Discourse in Tony Wheeler's Blog. Critical Studies in Media Communication. 29: pp. 1-17. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/40758 | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/15295036.2011.574640 | |
| dc.description.abstract |
This paper examines a guidebook publisher's travel blog in order to shed light on the tensions between discourses of travel and tourism. Tony Wheeler's Blog is written by the founder of Lonely Planet and is hosted on the company's website. I argue that the “blog” title implies that the text has certain intrinsic qualities, some of which are evident while others are not. I also argue that this text is an online travel narrative that draws on the discourses of travel, tourism, and blogging itself. Travel and tourism are often seen as conflicting, and the traveler–tourist dichotomy has found expression in various travel-related narratives. So Tony Wheeler's Blog becomes a site of negotiation between the discourses of travel and tourism, and in so doing takes on certain aspects of the blog while omitting or only imitating others. | |
| dc.publisher | Taylor and Francis | |
| dc.subject | Travel | |
| dc.subject | Picaresque | |
| dc.subject | Discourse analysis | |
| dc.subject | Weblogs | |
| dc.subject | Heteroglossia | |
| dc.subject | Lonely Planet | |
| dc.subject | Tourist discourse | |
| dc.title | When Travel Meets Tourism: Tracing Discourse in Tony Wheeler's Blog | |
| dc.type | Journal Article | |
| dcterms.source.volume | 29 | |
| dcterms.source.startPage | 1 | |
| dcterms.source.endPage | 17 | |
| dcterms.source.issn | 1529-5036 | |
| dcterms.source.title | Critical Studies in Media Communication | |
| curtin.note |
The attached document is the author's version of an article published as: Azariah, Deepti Ruth. 2011. When Travel Meets Tourism: Tracing Discourse in Tony Wheeler's Blog. Critical Studies in Media Communication. 29: pp. 1-17. Critical Studies in Media Communication is available online at: www.tandfonline.com | |
| curtin.department | Department of Internet Studies | |
| curtin.accessStatus | Open access |