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dc.contributor.authorAzariah, Deepti
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-04T05:37:09Z
dc.date.available2019-09-04T05:37:09Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.citationAzariah, D.R. 2018. Writing silver travel: Examining the peripheral in senior travel blogs, in Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of Australasian Association of Writing Programs: Peripheral Visions, Nov 28-30 2018. Perth, Western Australia: AAWP.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/76233
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There is a growing recognition that senior tourism has significant socioeconomic benefits for countries with ageing populations (Bates, 2004; Small, 2003; Vojvodic, 2015) and that the practices of older travellers need further investigation. Seniors are often relegated to the wrong side of the digital divide and, although this gap is rapidly diminishing (McMurtrey, Zeltmann, Downey, & McGaughey, 2011), the critical examination of senior travel bloggers, or silver tourists, and their narratives remains on the peripheries of academic debate. In response to a need for further research into “digital seniors” (Quan-Haase, Martin, & Schreurs, 2016) and their online narratives, this paper explores the concept of the peripheral within the context of senior travel blogs and asks how these narratives both embrace and challenge the notion of core/periphery. To answer this, the paper draws on various theories of travel and social media and aims to offer a nuanced understanding of how these narratives negotiate the persistent tensions between Home and Away, Self and Other, and escape and social connectedness, which concepts and discourses are integral to the writing and practice of silver travel.

dc.relation.urihttp://www.aawp.org.au/publications/
dc.subjecttravel writing
dc.subjectblogging
dc.subjectsenior tourism
dc.subjectcultural studies
dc.titleWriting silver travel: Examining the peripheral in senior travel blogs
dc.typeConference Paper
dcterms.source.conferencePeripheral Visions: 23rd Annual Conference of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs
dcterms.source.conference-start-date28 Nov 2018
dcterms.source.conferencelocationPerth
dcterms.source.placePerth
dc.date.updated2019-09-04T05:37:09Z
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Originally published in TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses textjournal.com.au

curtin.departmentSchool of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry
curtin.accessStatusOpen access
curtin.facultyFaculty of Humanities
dcterms.source.conference-end-date30 Nov 2018
curtin.contributor.scopusauthoridAzariah, Deepti [55383918700]


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