27. New media in travel and tourism communication: Toward a new paradigm

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface to Handbooks of Communication Science series v
3. Contents ix
4. Introduction
5. Communication technologies: An itinerary 3
6. I. The history of communication technologies
7. 1. From orality to newspaper wire services: Conceptualizing a medium 21
8. 2. Point-to-point: telecommunications networks from the optical telegraph to the mobile telephone 35
9. 3. Cinema and technology: From painting to photography and cinema, up to digital motion pictures in theatres and on the net 57
10. 4. Recorded music 79
11. 5. Communication in video games: From players to player communities 103
12. 6. Hypermedia, internet and the web 119
13. 7. Virtuality: VR as metamedia and herald of our future realities 141
14. 8. Virtual communities and social networks 161
15. 9. Web 2.0 and 3.0 181
16. II. Communication technologies and their enviroment
17. 10. ICTs and the dialectics of development 193
18. 11. Information quality and information overload: The promises and perils of the information age 215
19. 12. User experience and usability 233
20. 13. Impact of new media: A corrective 249
21. 14. Research methods on the Internet 277
22. 15. Digital Natives, New Millennium Learners and Generation Y, does age matter? Data and reflection from the higher education context 303
23. 16. Mobile media and communication 323
24. 17. Legal issues in a networked world 345
25. 18. Ethical issues in Internet communication 365
26. III. Communication technologies and new practices of communication in the information and communication society
27. 19. Commerce 385
28. 20. Workplace relationships: Telework, worklife balance, social support, negative features, and individual/organizational outcomes 397
29. 21. Marketing and public relations 411
30. 22. From electronic governance to policydriven electronic governance – evolution of technology use in government 425
31. 23. Technology and terrorism: Media symbiosis and the “dark side” of the web 439
32. 24. Religion 455
33. 25. Learning 467
34. 26. Communication technology and health: The advent of ehealth applications 485
35. 27. New media in travel and tourism communication: Toward a new paradigm 497
36. 28. Journalism: From delivering information to engaging citizen dialogue 513
37. 29. Libraries in the digital age: Technologies, innovation, shared resources and new responsibilities 527
38. 30. The sciences are discursive constructs: The communication perspective as an empirical philosophy of science 553
39. Biographical sketches 563
40. Subject index 573