This research thesis comprises three papers. The first paper provides a software-assisted literature review on the human-object relationships and post-humanist debates, offering an overview of the objects’ conceptualization, capacities, and relational dynamics conceived by these perspectives and a research agenda on key lines of inquiry. The second paper, focused on gastro-tourism, explores how cooking classes, repositioned through and on Zoom during the Covid-19 lockdown, are configured. Through a netnography informed by Afoordance Theory, the paper examines the Zoom photo taking trend and uncovers three Zoom tourism experiences, characterized by specific practices: Ego, Contextual, and Platform tourism. These findings advance the smart tourism debate, highlighting how Zoom's affordances define the platform as a new smart tourism destination. The third paper conducts a netnography on zoomies in cultural tourism, comparing and contrasting their stylistic canons of self- and place-presentation with those of travel selfies. It reveals different zoomies’ practices of self-presentation supporting a seller, a buddy, or an escapist tourist gaze and points at zoomies as carriers of vicarious or converging practices of place-presentation. These findings advance the literature on travel selfies and tourist gaze, revealing zoomies as technocultural means to construct the identities of a person and a place.
La tesi comprende tre articoli. Il primo offre una revisione della letteratura, condotta attraverso software, sul dibattito delle relazioni uomo-oggetto e teorie post-umanistiche, fornendo una panoramica sulla concettualizzazione dell’oggetto, proprietà e dinamiche relazionali, nonchè un’agenda di ricerca su temi emergenti. Il secondo articolo, focalizzato sul gastro-turismo, esplora la configurazione delle lezioni di cucina svolte su Zoom durante il lockdown Covid-19. Esso rivela, attraverso una netnography sul trend “Zoom photo taking”, informata dall’Affordance Theory, tre esperienze turistiche: Ego, Contextual e Platform Tourism. Questi risultati contribuiscono ai dibattiti sullo smart tourism e Affordance Theory, dimostrando come le affordance di Zoom rendano questa piattaforma una “smart destination”. Il terzo articolo esplora con una netnografia i canoni stilistici delle pratiche di presentazione del sé e del luogo degli zoomie di turismo culturale e li confronta con quelli del travel selfie. L’analisi rivela specifiche pratiche di presentazione del sé negli zoomie classificabili in tre tipologie di turist gaze (seller, buddy ed escapist) e uniche pratiche di presentazione del luogo (vicarious o converging). Questi risultati avanzano la letteratura del travel selfie e del tourist gaze, dimostrando che gli zoomie sono un nuovo mezzo tecnoculturale per costruire le identità di una persona e di un luogo.
BECCANULLI, ANGELA ANTONIA, ZOOM TOURISM: A NETNOGRAPHIC INSIGHT INTO NEW CULTURAL PRACTICES AND HOW THEY ARE RECONFIGURING SMART TOURISM EXPERIENCES, GAMBETTI, ROSSELLA CHIARA, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milano:Ciclo XXXV [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/285272]
ZOOM TOURISM: A NETNOGRAPHIC INSIGHT INTO NEW CULTURAL PRACTICES AND HOW THEY ARE RECONFIGURING SMART TOURISM EXPERIENCES
Beccanulli, Angela Antonia
2023
Abstract
This research thesis comprises three papers. The first paper provides a software-assisted literature review on the human-object relationships and post-humanist debates, offering an overview of the objects’ conceptualization, capacities, and relational dynamics conceived by these perspectives and a research agenda on key lines of inquiry. The second paper, focused on gastro-tourism, explores how cooking classes, repositioned through and on Zoom during the Covid-19 lockdown, are configured. Through a netnography informed by Afoordance Theory, the paper examines the Zoom photo taking trend and uncovers three Zoom tourism experiences, characterized by specific practices: Ego, Contextual, and Platform tourism. These findings advance the smart tourism debate, highlighting how Zoom's affordances define the platform as a new smart tourism destination. The third paper conducts a netnography on zoomies in cultural tourism, comparing and contrasting their stylistic canons of self- and place-presentation with those of travel selfies. It reveals different zoomies’ practices of self-presentation supporting a seller, a buddy, or an escapist tourist gaze and points at zoomies as carriers of vicarious or converging practices of place-presentation. These findings advance the literature on travel selfies and tourist gaze, revealing zoomies as technocultural means to construct the identities of a person and a place.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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