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The Dreamwork of Instagram w/ Sean P. Smith
On this episode, my guest is Sean P. Smith, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Culture Studies at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. Much of his research has focused on the relationship between social media and tourism, and how colonial histories shape today’s ideologies and visual cultures of travel. The inequalities that result from many forms of tourism development, he argues, are intimately linked with how tourists create content for Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, and the ways tourists frame themselves in landscapes and alongside local residents often replay colonial hierarchies.
Show Notes
Why Study Instagram?
The Pre-tour Narrative (Edward Bruner, Raul Salazar)
The Habitus of Tourism (or How We Got Here)
The Promontory Witness (or that photo)
The Logic of Influence
Emptying the Landscape (John Urry)
The Techno-Generational Divide
Media Ecology
Other Horizons in Oman
Homework
Sean P. Smith - Tilburg University
Sean P. Smith: Twitter / X | Instagram | Google Scholar (Articles)
Transcript
The transcript is available via Chris's Substack page. You can sign up for free and read along here: https://chrischristou.substack.com/
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