Backpackers as a community of strangers : the interaction order of an online backpacker notice board
Adkins, Barbara A. & Grant, Eryn L. (2007) Backpackers as a community of strangers : the interaction order of an online backpacker notice board. Qualitative Sociology Review, 3(2).
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Abstract
While commercial images of 'backpacking' emphasise adventure, youth and sightseeing, recent ethnographies of backpackers identify other motivations and rationales that accentuate travel experiences as formative of the self and identity. This raises the question of the basis of this apparently common orientation. This paper investigates, through analysis of postings on an electronic backpacker notice board, 'backpacker' as a collaboratively constructed category. We propose that the shared understandings of 'backpacker' enabled by these notice boards are consistent with cultural orientations captured in notions of cosmopolitanism (Beck, 2000) involving a shift to new forms of sociality across borders: a solidarity with strangers.
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| ID Code: | 6618 |
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| Item Type: | Journal Article |
| Additional Information: | The contents of this journal can be freely accessed online via the journal's web page (see hypertext link). |
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| Keywords: | Backpackers, Interaction Order, Information and Communication and Technology, Cosmopolitanism |
| ISSN: | 1733-8077 |
| Subjects: | Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > STUDIES IN HUMAN SOCIETY (160000) > SOCIOLOGY (160800) |
| Divisions: | Current > QUT Faculties and Divisions > Creative Industries Faculty Past > QUT Faculties & Divisions > QUT Carseldine - Humanities & Human Services |
| Copyright Owner: | Copyright 2007 (please consult author) |
| Deposited On: | 14 Mar 2007 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Feb 2012 23:41 |
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