Instagramable Tourist Places: authenticity through image in media society era

Authors

  • Alan Faber Nascimento UFVJM

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.34019/2238-2925.2020.v10.30083

Abstract

This theoretical essay aims to problematize the social desire for tourist travel in contemporary times. Resuming a critical tradition in the sociology of tourism that foresaw in the phenomenon the emergence of an increasingly imagetic social reality, the work hypothesis supports the idea that desire for tourist travel shares the same logic that characterizes the so-called midia society: a mimetic social practice, digitally shared, without the idea of surprise, and in which the goal is, especially, to recognize what other tourists are posting on social networks. That is what can be inferred from places made tourist by the influence of the social network of Instagram. To do this essay, bibliographic sources and secondary data extracted from electronic portals of magazines and newspapers were used. The essay has a theoretical orientation based on historical-dialectical materialism.

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Author Biography

Alan Faber Nascimento, UFVJM

Graduado em Turismo e mestre em Ciências Sociais (ênfase em Sociologia) pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (2007), doutor em Geografia pela Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho", campus Rio Claro (2011), e pós-doutorado em Estudos do Lazer pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (2018). Atualmente é Professor Associado I do curso de Turismo da UFVJM e do mestrado em Estudos Rurais da UFVJM. Tem produção científica nos seguintes temas: Sociologia e História do Turismo; Sociologia do Lazer; Comunidades Tradicionais. Endereço: Rodovia MGT 367 n. 5000 Alto da Jacuba, Gabinete 82, CEP.: 39 100 000, Diamantina / MG, Brasil. [ alanfaber@uol.com.br ] Lattes iD: http://lattes.cnpq.br/0185442935600199 ; Orcid iD: ? https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4291-2177

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Published

2020-12-12

How to Cite

Nascimento, A. F. (2020). Instagramable Tourist Places: authenticity through image in media society era. Anais Brasileiros De Estudos Turísticos, 10(1, 2 e 3). https://doi.org/10.34019/2238-2925.2020.v10.30083

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 1, 2 e 3 (2020): Current Issues on Tourism and Thematic Issue: “Crisis and Uncertainty in Pandemic Times"

Section

PENSATA / OPINION ESSAY / ENSAYO DE OPINIÓN

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