Reg No: HS 2018/16

 

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Faculty Board of Arts and Social Sciences
Tourism Studies

Course Reading

Communication and digitalisation in tourism

Valid from autumn semester 2018

 

Course Code: TVGT32
Course Title: Communication and digitalisation in tourism
Kommunikation och digitalisering av turism
Credits: 7.5
Degree Level: Bachelor


Books
Falkheimer, Jesper & Heide, Mats. Strategic communication. An introduction. New York: Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2018. Pages: 159.

Löwgren, J. & Reimer, B. Collaborative media. Production, Consumption, and Design Interventions. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. ISBN 9780262019767. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/collaborative-media (valda delar).

Minazzi, R. Social Media Marketing in Tourism and Hospitality. Springer, 2015. Pages: 163.

Munar, A.M., Gyimóthy, S., Cai, L (eds.). Tourism Social Media. Transformations in Identity, Community and Culture. Emerald Publishing, 2013. Tourism Social Science Series. Vol 18. Valda kapitel (150 sidor). E-bok.

SpringerLink (Online service). Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2018 Proceedings of the International Conference in Jönköping, Sweden, January 24-26, 2018. Cham: Springer International Publishing. Valda kapitel (150 sidor). E-bok.

Övrig litteratur enligt lärarens anvisningar.


Reference Literature

Birch, N. The Impact of Digitisation on Creative and Cultural Industries. Munich : GRIN Verlag, 2011.

Buhalis, D. Etourism: Information Technology for strategic tourism management. Pearson: London, 2003. ISBN 0582357403. Pages: 408.

Crouch, D., Jackson, R. & Thompson, F. (red.). The media and the tourist imagination-convergent cultures.. London: Routledge, 2005.

Dijck, J. van. The culture of connectivity: a critical history of social media. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Falkheimer, Jesper & André Jansson (eds). Geographies of Communication: The Spatial Turn in Media Studies. Göteborg: Nordicom, 2006.

Qualman, E. Socialnomics; how social media change the way we live and do business. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley, 2011.

Articles
Fritz, F., Susperregui, A. & Linaza, M.T. Enhancing Cultural Tourism experiences with Augmented Reality Techonogies. The 6th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage VAST, 2005.

Mack, R., Blose,J. & Pan, B. Believe it or not: Credibility of blogs in tourism Journal of Vacation Marketing. 2008/Vol.4/Nr.2.

Mortara, M., Catalano, C. E., Bellotti, F., Fiucci, G., Houry-Panchetti, M. & Petridis, P. Learning cultural heritage by serious games. In Journal of Cultural Heritage 15. 2014. Sid. 318-325.

Rose G., Degen, M., & Melhuish, C. Networks, interfaces, and computer-generated images: learning from digital visualisations of urban redevelopment projects. Environment and Planning. 2014. A 32: Sid. 386-403.

Volo, S. Bloggers´ reported tourist experiences: Their utility as a tourism data source and their effect on prospective tourists, Journal of Vacation Marketing. 2010/Vol.16/Nr.4.

Waterton, E. Sights of Sites: Picturing Heritage, Power and Exclusion. Journal of Heritage Tourism. 2009. 4 (1): Sid. 37-56.

Yovcheva, Z., Buhalis, D. & Gatzidis, C. Overview of smartphone Augmented Reality applications for tourism. e-Review of Tourism Research (eRTR). 2011. 10 (2), pp. 63-66.


 

Approved by the Faculty Board of Arts and Social Sciences, 16 August 2018