Conspicuous Travel: Consuming and Sharing on Facebook

  • Zeynep Arda Izmir University of Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_HICS.2014.v19.46564
Keywords: Conspicuous consumption, online social networks, image/identity, social status.

Abstract

The self-conscious individual of our contemporaneity is excessively conscious of her/his appearance or manner, as it is constantly reflected in the digital mirrors of the online social network. We tend to build our images in the way that we want others to see us, hence slowly we losing the boundary between our images and our identities. Within this perspective, traveling also becomes an item of conspicuous consumption – and the online social network, its display.

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Published
2014-09-11
How to Cite
Arda Z. (2014). Conspicuous Travel: Consuming and Sharing on Facebook. Historia y Comunicación Social, 19, 861-874. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_HICS.2014.v19.46564
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Vol. 19 (2014): Número especial (febrero): La comunicación en la profesión en la universidad de hoy
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