Overview
- Proposes a new interpretation of how digital travel and digital tourism relate to actual travel
- Explores the relationship between telepresence and the sense of place in digital environments
- Draws on survey data to identify the characteristics of digital travellers
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
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“Can virtual travels become as attractive as real ones? In this insightful book, Tjostheim and Waterworth suggest that although a digital journey differs from a ‘physical’ one in many respects, it can be a rich and satisfying experience, provided that it enables the traveller to achieve a high sense of ‘presence’ – the feeling of ‘being there.’ However, as the authors convincingly show, creating presence is not just a technological challenge: imagination, expectations, and the story or narrative through which the traveller makes sense of the journey also play a key role.”
— Andrea Gaggioli, Professor, Director of the ExperienceLab, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
“This book offers an original and informative interpretation of travel in the electronically permeated world in which we now live. I was particularly intrigued by the authors' development of the idea of behavioural outsideness as an aspect of digital experiences of place. Virtual travel may not be a substitute for visiting somewhere, but this book shows that the increasingly realistic 3D rendering of places in digital games and other tele-technologies does provide a powerful affirmation of actual travel experiences.”
— Edward Relph, Emeritus Professor, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto, Canada
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Ingvar Tjostheim, PhD, is Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Computing Center.
John A. Waterworth PhD, CPsychol. is a consultant, writer and researcher. He is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Informatics, Umeå University, Sweden.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Psychosocial Reality of Digital Travel
Book Subtitle: Being in Virtual Places
Authors: Ingvar Tjostheim, John A. Waterworth
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91272-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-91271-0Published: 07 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-91272-7Published: 06 December 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 152
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 33 illustrations in colour
Topics: Psychology, general, Personality and Social Psychology, Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics