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Travel Journalism and Travel Media

Identities, Places and Imaginings

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Authors:
  1. Ben Cocking

    1. Centre for Journalism, University of Kent, Kent, UK

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  • Explores the changing dimensions of travel journalism in the digital age

  • Discusses differing perceptions of tourism and cultural difference in travel journalism, from East to West and West to East

  • Examines travel journalism’s potential for political intervention and awareness raising

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: Travel Journalism—Forms and Origins

    • Ben Cocking
    Pages 1-26

  3. Making Tabloid Travel Journalism: Values and Visuality

    • Ben Cocking
    Pages 27-51

  4. “Itravel: Competing Forms of Travel Writing in Print Based and User Generated Journalism”

    • Ben Cocking
    Pages 53-76

  5. Visions of Past and Present? Travel Journalism Features and TripAdvisor Reviews of Tourist Destinations in the Middle East

    • Ben Cocking
    Pages 77-103

  6. Looking West: Representations of Cultural Difference and Patterns of Consumption in ‘Eastern’ Travel Journalism

    • Ben Cocking
    Pages 105-127

  7. Selling it ‘Green’: Travel Journalism, Trump and the US National Monuments

    • Ben Cocking
    Pages 129-151

  8. Conclusions

    • Ben Cocking
    Pages 153-160

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 161-162
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About this book

This book charts the trajectory of travel journalism from its print based origins to the emergence of hybridised multi-platform content. It considers how this has led to not only different kinds of travel journalism but different kinds of travel journalists; the professional travel journalist is now challenged online by user generated content. Cocking focuses on the conventions and “news values” of British print-based travel journalism, examining the genre’s liminal position between truth and fiction. In the context of the expansion of global tourism, Cocking explores how travel journalism from different parts of the world negotiates cultural differences in its depictions of destinations, regions, and tourist practices. Consideration is also given to the political potential of travel journalism and its capacity for awareness raising. Based on original research including qualitative analysis of print-based articles and blogs this book offers an innovative and original contribution to this emerging field of study.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Centre for Journalism, University of Kent, Kent, UK

    Ben Cocking

About the author

Ben Cocking is Senior Lecturer and Director of Research at the Centre for Journalism, University of Kent, UK. His research interests include travel journalism, travel writing, news media and political communications.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Travel Journalism and Travel Media

  • Book Subtitle: Identities, Places and Imaginings

  • Authors: Ben Cocking

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59908-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59907-0Published: 09 June 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-59908-7Published: 08 June 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 162

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Media and Communication

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