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Mobile Tour Guiding and tourist experience: An analysis of reviews for Rick Steves' Audio Europe App
No full textMotivated by our growing connections to our phones and the unique media that populates them, this thesis is an investigation into the relationship between app use and tourist experience in Europe. This study investigates tourist experience regarding the use of a mobile tour guiding app, focused on the Rick Steves’ Audio Europe app as a case study.
Utilizing app reviews as a primary source, quantitative and qualitative methods will combine, aided by the qualitative analysis program Atlas.ti, to develop an understanding of experience based on users own words. Star ratings will briefly be discussed before the bulk of the research delves into the written reviews collected from the Google Play and Apple iTunes stores. Employing a grounded content analysis, codes will be extracted from the data and compared to isolate patterns and commonalities in the reviews. Finally, a handful of reviews will be evaluated using a discursive and deconstructive method to both showcase and analyze reviews in their entirety.
This thesis will be presented in a straightforward format, beginning with a brief introduction before the first chapter, Status Quaestionis, delves into the scholarly literature on the various subjects that influence this investigation. After establishing a base with a literature review, the methodology and frameworks employed will be detailed in the second chapter before an in depth analysis of the reviews is conducted through varied research techniques. Findings revealed in the research will be detailed, concentrating on the main and sub- questions of this study in the fourth chapter, before a conclusion offering a summary of the project
Why Travel Makes Us Better Global Citizens
No full textRick Steves is a popular public television host, best-selling guidebook author, and outspoken activist who encourages people to broaden their perspectives through travel. For over 40 years he has been traveling, researching, and teaching and will share his experiences as he talks about being better global citizens
Short Communication
No full textDear Readers, Season’s greetings! This issue includes a selection of original research paper. In addition, we take this opportunity to reflect on and honour the collective contribution made by our author, reviewers, and editorial team throughout the year
Investigating Linguistic And Cultural Attitudes In Rick Steves\u27S Tourist Phrasebooks
No full textThis presentation investigates linguistic and cultural attitudes found in European tourist phrasebooks produced by Rick Steves. This work expands on the research of Dr. Richard Hallett, which examines Lonely Planet’s Middle East Phrasebook and Dictionary and Tuttle Publishing’s Making Out series. Hallett argues that “the phrasebooks describe these languages and their speakers as exotic, monolithic, simplistic, and deterministic; and construct the traveller’s efforts to use these languages as acts of benevolence” (Hallett, 2017). In the introduction to his Spanish phrasebook, Steves explains: “I’m the only monolingual speaker I know who’s had the nerve to design a series of European phrasebooks. But that’s one of the things that makes them better” (2013). He then advises travelers to use gestures and simplistic single-word requests in lieu of learning the local language and communicating in a culturally sensitive way. This approach to travel illustrates Steves’s hegemonic cultural views and perceived lack of difficulty with intercultural communication. I am using the critical discourse analysis (CDA) method to analyze each of Steves’s phrasebooks. CDA is text analysis with regard to “external social relations” and is a pragmatic evaluation rather than semantic processing (Hallett, 2017). A few consistent themes have emerged. First, the advice to use gesture in lieu of oral language is repeated regardless of which country is being discussed. Steves says in the introduction of his 3-in-1 French, Italian, & German book, “While I\u27ve provided plenty of phrases, you\u27ll find it just as effective to use only a word or two to convey your meaning and to rely on context, gestures, and smiles to help you out” (2014). In France, you can use ça (that/this) to “convey a world of meaning” (p2) and in Italy questo and quello (this/that) “combine conveniently with gestures” (p176). In his Spanish phrasebook, Steves (2013) repeats that esto (this) “conveys worlds of meaning” (p6). Additionally, Steves employs patronizing and reductionist descriptions of the languages he is discussing. French is “romantic” and marvels that “even your US passport is translated into French” (Steves, 2014, p2). Italian is “user-friendly” and “easy to get the hang of” (Steves, 2014, p176). He claims that “if you can say pizza, lasagna, and spaghetti you can speak Italian.” German is “versatile” and “entertaining” and the morphological patterns characteristic to the language are “fun” (Steves, 2014, p368). Through CDA and considering Steves’s statements in the broader narrative of travel advice, it becomes clearer how the English language and American culture are hegemonically positioned in these travel phrasebooks
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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