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On-line and On the Road: Redefining Leisure Travel in the Age of Mobile Media Technologies

On-line and On the Road: Redefining Leisure Travel in the Age of Mobile Media Technologies. Jennie Germann Molz Department of Sociology jennie@globalivity.com. Photo by Kinga http://www.geocities.com/kingachopin/main_eng.html. Round-the-world websites and round-the-world travellers:.

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On-line and On the Road: Redefining Leisure Travel in the Age of Mobile Media Technologies

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  1. On-line and On the Road:Redefining Leisure Travel in the Age of Mobile Media Technologies Jennie Germann Molz Department of Sociology jennie@globalivity.com Photo by Kinga http://www.geocities.com/kingachopin/main_eng.html

  2. Round-the-world websites and round-the-world travellers: • 200 round-the-world websites surveyed • 15 interviews with web authors; 40 round-the-world websites studied in depth • 80 travellers • 45 male/35 female • aged 7 - 60 (most mid-30s) • most from US, Australia, Canada, UK, Europe

  3. www.watchuswander.com accessed 13 April 2004

  4. www.geocities.com/big_trip_2000 accessed 13 April 2004

  5. www. wired2theworld.com accessed 13 April 2004

  6. www.2goglobal.com accessed 13 April 2004

  7. ‘I can be where I want, when I want, even if I’m not.’

  8. Interactive travel and mobile social relations: • Internet cafés and websites • Collective travel • Constant presence • Redefining travel • Conclusion

  9. Internet Cafés and Websites Photo by www.blazingatrail.com

  10. www.e-lopers.com accessed 13 April 2004

  11. www.watchuswander.com accessed 13 April 2004

  12. Collective Travel • Mariesworldtour.com is a live, online virtual trip in progress, following • traveler Marie … as she travels around the world in 2001 without using • any airplanes! Interact with Marie (and each other) through this website, • and give her advice as she goes. Interact with Marie: • Sign up here to get regular Marie-mail dispatches delivered to your e- mail. If you don't want to sign up, you can still read the dispatches on the site. • Go to the message board to vote on Marie's route and tell her what to do when she encounters difficulties around the world. Advise her on what to order in restaurants in Uzbekistan and Mongolia. Post important medical advice for snakebites and malaria! • Bring home a souvenir from your virtual trip! • (www.mariesworldtour.com accessed 14 February 2002)

  13. www.mariesworldtour.com accessed 13 April 2004

  14. I think [doing the website] also kind of encouraged us to do things that • we might not have done. For example, the balloon trip that we did while • we were in Turkey – that was really expensive, but in the backs of our • minds we were thinking ... would our readers want us to do this? Yes, they would. So a lot of the things that we did I think were influenced by the fact that we’re not just travelling for ourselves, we’re doing it for the readers out there. • (Hilary, interview extract • 12 July 2002)

  15. www.watchuswander.com accessed 13 April 2004

  16. www.watchuswander.com accessed 13 April 2004

  17. Constant Presence We are Geoff and Lauren, and we quit our jobs, sold the house, ... and disappeared without a trace… Well, actually, not really, we did quit our jobs and we did sell the house, and have left to travel … But … as you can see from this web site, we haven't exactly disappeared off of the face of the earth. (www. http://www.madriver.com/users/rtw2vt/travelers/travelers.html accessed 19 July 2001, my emphasis)

  18. www.watchuswander.com accessed 13 April 2004

  19. www.watchuswander.com accessed 13 April 2004

  20. Redefining Leisure Travel What does it mean to travel away from home? Photo by Séanwww.gonewalkabout.com/got/got.htm Interactive travellers are ‘nomads … who are always in touch’ (Benedikt 1992: 10).

  21. Conclusion • Directions for future research … • new kinds of on-line texts (travel blogs) • new kinds of connected spatiality (hot spots, wi-fi, wiMax, etc.) • implications for mobile methodologies

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