Travel, Writing and the Media : : Contemporary and Historical Perspectives.

• Superior document: Routledge studies in cultural history ; 116
• TeilnehmendeR: Korte, Barbara, 1957-; Sennefelder, Anna Karina.
• Place / Publishing House: [Place of publication not identified] : : Routledge,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge studies in cultural history ; 116.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (293 pages)

The nexus between travel, writing and media in the contemporary world is dense: travel practice is increasingly interwoven with media; representations in old and new media are co-present and converge. Digitization has had profound impact on the practice and mediation of travel, but this volume aims to show that travel and its representation have always been enlaced with media. With contributions by experts in literary and cultural studies, journalism studies and informatics, the book takes a multi- and interdisciplinary approach and covers a wide range of media, from the hand-crafted album to social media. It illustrates how current transformations invite us to revisit earlier periods of travel writing and their media environments, and to explore the ways in which contemporary forms of mediation are prefigured by earlier practices and forms. The book addresses readers interested in travel writing, travel studies and cultural studies.

Table of Contents

IntroductionBarbara Korte and Anna Karina Sennefelder1. Travel in Social Media: From Historical Albums to Selfies and StoriesAnnegret Pelz 2. Travelling Texts and the Influence of Images: Nineteenth- Century Popular Geographical Travel MagazinesKirsten Belgum3. The Media Logic of Victorian Periodicals: Affordances for Travel WritingBarbara Korte4. Fleming, Maillart and Their Leicas: Photography and the Transformations of Interwar Travel WritingCharles Forsdick5. German Radio Travelogues in the 1950s: Wolfgang Koeppen and Ernst SchnabelChristopher Meid6. Walking Books: Practices, Semantics and Mediations of Literary WalksBarbara Schaff7. Binge-Watching the World: Contemporary Travel Television on NetflixTanja Kapp8. Video Games as Travel WritingTom van Nuenen9. Harmful or Empowering Convergence?: The Female Traveller and Insta-Aesthetics -- Selfies and DocumentariesAnna Karina Sennefelder10. Youth and Travel Narration: Exploring the Jade Hameister ArchiveKylie Cardell and Kate Douglas11. Challenging the Tourist Gaze?: Exploring Majority World Countriesʼ Instagram Influencer Practices and the Link to Citizen Travel JournalismPhoebe Maares and Folker Hanusch12. Travel Writing Between Poetics and Politics: Three Case Studies on the Genreʼs Mediati(sati)onStefano Calzati