'Should I post this one?': An ethnography on social media's effect on the tourist gaze

• Main Author: Viðja Jónasdóttir 1994-
• Other Authors: Háskóli Íslands
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Ferðamálafræði; Samfélagsmiðlar; Félagsleg mannfræði; Ferðamenn; Ferðamannastaðir; Atferlismótun; Blue Lagoon; Gerðar; Reykjavík; The Cathedral
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1946/33272

The goal of this paper is to elucidate and define the possible effects that increased social media usage by travelers have had on the tourist gaze, as well as their performance and their selves. Tourist destinations in and around Reykjavík will be used as research sites for observation: the cathedra...