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New Technologies of the Self and Social Networking Sites: Hospitality Exchange Clubs and the Changing Nature of Tourism and Identity
Michael O'Regan
Digital Technologies of the Self, Pages: 171 - 198
Swansea University Author: Michael O'Regan
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DOI (Published version): 10.13140/2.1.4378.9600
Abstract
Muecke (2006, 36) notes how Buckminster Fuller, the designer who gave us such mobile habitable environments as the Dymaxion house (houses which could assembled on site; suitable for any environment), pointed out that “humans were born with legs and feet, not roots, and that our primary natural advan...
| Published in: | Digital Technologies of the Self |
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| ISBN: | 9781443815970 |
| ISSN: | 1443815977 |
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Newcastle upon Tyne
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2009
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Muecke (2006, 36) notes how Buckminster Fuller, the designer who gave us such mobile habitable environments as the Dymaxion house (houses which could assembled on site; suitable for any environment), pointed out that “humans were born with legs and feet, not roots, and that our primary natural advantage as a species is mobility”. Although a constant in the world of modernity, mobility has acquired new dimensions in the late modern (postmodern) context — a constant movement of images and people (Lash and Urry 1994) — and “staggering developments in communication and transportation” (Cresswell 2006, 20), which have changed “our apprehension of space, time and subjectivity” (Simonsen 2004, 43) creating and stretching new and existing social, cultural, economic networks, unleashing and accelerating various mobilities (Bechmann 2004). Cresswell (2006, 45) argues “[n]ot only does the world appear to be more mobile, but our ways of knowing the world have also become more fluid” which possibility might not just change the world but ways of knowing it. Therefore, it can safely be said that the concept of mobility reflects tendencies in postmodern society (Nielsen 2005), where routes in combination with roots have become a defining feature of social life, identity-making and cultural belonging (Aas 2007). Indeed, Bauman (1998, 2-3) surmises that “[m]obility climbs to the top of the uppermost among the coveted values and the freedom to move, perpetually a scarce ..... |
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Book edited by Yasmine Abbas and Fred Dervin |
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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171 |
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198 |