Online travel journalism and innovation: Profiles, aims and bloggers' motivations
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30-11-2017
Dolors Palau Sampio
Mariia Lekant
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9051-0239
Mariia Lekant
Abstract
The online travel journalism has experienced a boom in the last decade, with the emergence of thousands of blogs devoted to this issue. This research focuses on who are its promoters, what are their aims and if they conceive these blogs as entrepreneurship initiatives in the journalistic field. To achieve this purpose an online survey was conducted, with 35 questions structured in five blocks. The results show that the majority of the surveyed bloggers come from outside of the journalistic field and, despite engaging in the project as a hobby, half of them have managed to monetize it.
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Palau Sampio, D., & Lekant, M. (2017). Online travel journalism and innovation: Profiles, aims and bloggers’ motivations. ZER - Journal of Communication Studies, 22(43). https://doi.org/10.1387/zer.17938
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Duffy, A. (2016). How Social Media Offers Opportunities for Growth in the Traditional Media Industry: The Case of Travel Journalism. In: Benson, V.; Tuninga, R. & Saridakis, G. Analyzing the Strategic Role of Social Networking in Firm Growth and Productivity. Hershey: IGI Global, 172-187.
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Fürsich, E. & Kavoori, A. P. (2001). Mapping a critical framework for the study of travel journalism. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 4(2), 149-171. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/136787790100400202
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Pirolli, B. (2014). Travel Journalism in Flux: New Practices in the Blogosphere. En: F. Hanusch & E. Fürsich (Eds.). Travel Journalism: Exploring Production, Impact and Culture. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Pirolli, B. (2016). Travel Journalists and Professional Identity. Journalism Practice, 1-20. doi: 10.1080/17512786.2016.1193821.
Pokazanyeva, I. (2013). Проблемное поле трэвел-журналистики как явления современного медиапространства [Problem Field of Travel Journalism as a Phenomenon of Contemporary Media Environment]. Revista electrónica Mediascope. Retrieved from: http://www.mediascope.ru/node/1385
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Rosenkranz, T. (2016). Becoming entrepreneurial: Crisis, ethics and marketization in the field of travel journalism. Poetics, 54, 54-65.
Technorati (2010). State of blogosphere 2010. Retrieved from: http://technorati.com/state-of-the-blogosphere-2010/
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TravelBlog (2010). About TravelBlog. Retrieved from: http://www.travelblog.org/about.html
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Ulanova, M. (2014). Интернет-журналистика. Практическое руководство [Periodismo en Internet. Guía práctica]. Moscú: Aspect Press.
Wenger, A. (2008). Analysis of travel bloggers' characteristics and their communication about Austria as a tourism destination. Journal of Vacation Marketing, 14(2), 169-176. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/1356766707087525
WTTC (World Travel & Tourism Council) (2016). Travel & Tourism Economic Impact 2016 World. Retrieved from: https://tendenciasturismo.com/2016/04/18/impacto-del-turismo-en-la-economia-mundial-98-del-pib-global-y-1-de-cada-11-empleos/
Xiang, Z., & Gretzel, U. (2010). Role of social media in online travel information search. Tourism management, 31(2), 179-188. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2009.02.016
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