2021
DOI: 10.1177/1468797620985789
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“Gazing” and “performing”: Travel photography and online self-presentation

Abstract: This article illustrates the self-presentations young people foreground when they visually communicate international volunteer experiences to social media audiences. Through a “categorical-content” analysis of repeated semi-structured interviews and photographic content posted to Facebook, and with theoretical support from Urry’s “tourist gaze” and Goffman’s “presentation of self,” I describe three impressions “given” and “given off” within participants’ profiles. The findings reveal some familiar touristic sc… Show more

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“…The tourist gaze has been defined in a variety of ways by researchers , including collective gaze, romantic gaze (Urry, 1990a), local gaze, mutual gaze, family gaze, and female gaze . Recently, the notion has also been used to study tourists' experiences from various angles (Chen & Xu, 2021;Schwarz, 2021;Stone & Nyaupane, 2019). Urry (1990b) believed that landscapes were the primary objects of the "tourist gaze" that shaped tourists' experiences of place.…”
Section: Tourist Gazementioning
confidence: 99%
“…The tourist gaze has been defined in a variety of ways by researchers , including collective gaze, romantic gaze (Urry, 1990a), local gaze, mutual gaze, family gaze, and female gaze . Recently, the notion has also been used to study tourists' experiences from various angles (Chen & Xu, 2021;Schwarz, 2021;Stone & Nyaupane, 2019). Urry (1990b) believed that landscapes were the primary objects of the "tourist gaze" that shaped tourists' experiences of place.…”
Section: Tourist Gazementioning
confidence: 99%