Technology, Technology,
Mobility Mobility and Sociality: and Sociality: Leisure Travel Leisure Travel
and and Social Relations Social Relations
in the in the Information AgeInformation Age
Dr Jennie Germann MolzESRC Postdoctoral Research FellowCentre for Mobilities Research/Sociology
PhD Thesis:Destination World: Technology, Mobility and Global
Belonging in Round-the-World Websites
How is the increasing convergence between travel and the Internet reconfiguring corporeal travel practices and patterns, reshaping social definitions of travel and affording new kinds of global belonging?
What I’m working on now …
• Journal articles and conference papers– ‘Fit to travel and travelling to fit: round-the-world travel and
the cosmopolitan body’– ‘Global abodes: mobility, technology and feeling at home in
the world’– ‘Time, timing and pace: temporal geographies of round-
the-world travel’– ‘Travels in the blogosphere: the material and virtual
geographies of travel blogs’– ‘”Let me stay” and “Welcome to my homepage”: mobile
hospitality and the Internet’
• MA module– SOCL 924: Technology, Mobility and Sociality
• New research– Leisure travel and social relations in the
information age
NEW RESEARCH:
Leisure travel and social relations in the information age
• Convergence between ICTs and travel
• Interactive travel and mobile sociality
• ‘travelblogging’ and ‘moblogging’
– Concepts of home and abroad– Global citizenship– Spatial configurations of
sociality– Hospitality, hosts and guests
What are the implications of the convergence between leisure travel and mobile communications technologies for:
Mobilising Hospitality:The ethics of social relations
in a mobile world
• hospitality as an ethics for a mobile world
• cosmopolitan hospitality• multiculturalism and
postcolonial hospitality• hospitality in
cyberspace/hosting and information technologies
• hospitality, hostility and the inhospitable
• spaces and landscapes of hospitality
• economies of hospitality
• tourism hospitality• intellectual hospitality
within and across disciplines
26-27 September 2005 Lancaster University
Themes:
Contact details
Dr Jennie Germann MolzESRC Postdoctoral Research FellowCeMoRe/SociologyCounty South [email protected]@globalivity.comOffice hours: Tuesdays 11-12.30
