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dc.contributor.authorAzariah, Deepti
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T14:45:30Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T14:45:30Z
dc.date.created2012-01-25T20:00:51Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.identifier.citationAzariah, 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.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/40758
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/15295036.2011.574640
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.publisherTaylor and Francis
dc.subjectTravel
dc.subjectPicaresque
dc.subjectDiscourse analysis
dc.subjectWeblogs
dc.subjectHeteroglossia
dc.subjectLonely Planet
dc.subjectTourist discourse
dc.titleWhen Travel Meets Tourism: Tracing Discourse in Tony Wheeler's Blog
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume29
dcterms.source.startPage1
dcterms.source.endPage17
dcterms.source.issn1529-5036
dcterms.source.titleCritical Studies in Media Communication
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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.departmentDepartment of Internet Studies
curtin.accessStatusOpen access


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