Autore
Paganoni, Maria Cristina

Titolo
Travel Blogging and the Platformisation of Comments
Periodico
In verbis
Anno: 2024 - Volume: no - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 53 - Pagina finale: 68

The article examines the language and discourse structure of travel blogs by shifting the focus from the blogger’s posts to the blog’s online community interacting through comments. While posts remain a steady area of investigation of the sociolinguistics of travel writing, professional tourism discourse and destination branding, this does not hold true for comments from the online community, once hailed as a sign of participation and co-construction of the travel experience. Considerably decreasing in volume, comment sections on travel blogs are now moderated through gatekeeping or discontinued to collect user feedback on image-centric platforms, where interaction is multiplied but also fragmented. Drawing from scholarly studies that address dialogicity and processes of interaction in blogs, this article engages in discourse-analytic accounts of user comments in four English-language award-winning travel blogs with active comment sections, questioning their current contribution to a deeper understanding of tourism and the travel experience.



SICI: 2279-8978(2024)NO:1<53:TBATPO>2.0.ZU;2-F
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