technology, mobility and sociality: leisure travel and social relations in the information age
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Technology, Mobility and Sociality: Leisure Travel and Social Relations in the Information Age. Dr Jennie Germann Molz ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow Centre for Mobilities Research/Sociology. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Technology, Technology,
Mobility Mobility and Sociality: and Sociality: Leisure Travel Leisure Travel
and and Social Relations Social Relations
in the in the Information AgeInformation Age
Dr Jennie Germann MolzESRC Postdoctoral Research FellowCentre for Mobilities Research/Sociology
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PhD Thesis:Destination World: Technology, Mobility and Global
Belonging in Round-the-World Websites
How is the increasing convergence between travel and the Internet reconfiguring corporeal travel practices and patterns, reshaping social definitions of travel and affording new kinds of global belonging?
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What I’m working on now …
• Journal articles and conference papers– ‘Fit to travel and travelling to fit: round-the-world travel and
the cosmopolitan body’– ‘Global abodes: mobility, technology and feeling at home in
the world’– ‘Time, timing and pace: temporal geographies of round-
the-world travel’– ‘Travels in the blogosphere: the material and virtual
geographies of travel blogs’– ‘”Let me stay” and “Welcome to my homepage”: mobile
hospitality and the Internet’
• MA module– SOCL 924: Technology, Mobility and Sociality
• New research– Leisure travel and social relations in the
information age
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NEW RESEARCH:
Leisure travel and social relations in the information age
• Convergence between ICTs and travel
• Interactive travel and mobile sociality
• ‘travelblogging’ and ‘moblogging’
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– Concepts of home and abroad– Global citizenship– Spatial configurations of
sociality– Hospitality, hosts and guests
What are the implications of the convergence between leisure travel and mobile communications technologies for:
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Mobilising Hospitality:The ethics of social relations
in a mobile world
• hospitality as an ethics for a mobile world
• cosmopolitan hospitality• multiculturalism and
postcolonial hospitality• hospitality in
cyberspace/hosting and information technologies
• hospitality, hostility and the inhospitable
• spaces and landscapes of hospitality
• economies of hospitality
• tourism hospitality• intellectual hospitality
within and across disciplines
26-27 September 2005 Lancaster University
Themes:
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Contact details
Dr Jennie Germann MolzESRC Postdoctoral Research FellowCeMoRe/SociologyCounty South [email protected]@globalivity.comOffice hours: Tuesdays 11-12.30