There’s a troll on the information bridge! An exploratory study of deviant online behaviour impacts on tourism cosmopolitanism

Aaron Tham; Mingzhong Wang

doi:10.1080/02508281.2017.1298701

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There’s a troll on the information bridge! An exploratory study of deviant online behaviour impacts on tourism cosmopolitanism

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There’s a troll on the information bridge! An exploratory study of deviant online behaviour impacts on tourism cosmopolitanism

Aaron Tham and Mingzhong Wang

Tourism Recreation Research, Vol.42(2), pp.258-272

2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02508281.2017.1298701

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trolling

global citizen

deviant behaviour

social media

forums

Existing literature has portrayed tourism as a conduit for learning and transformation, with a view that such mobilities elucidate tourism cosmopolitanism. While such propositions are insofar useful in characterising global dispositions, very little has been done to investigate how the virtual space has helped to develop or curtail effects of tourism cosmopolitanism. The virtual space has transformed tourism engagement and consumption patterns, though few studies have paid attention to deviant online behaviour and its corresponding effects on cosmopolitanism. Drawing from outcomes of trolling instances within forums, this paper argues that deviant online behaviour is of consequence as an antecedent in determining one's disposition to destinations, challenging the decision type and raising serious concerns to self-image and virtual representations. These attacks on any individual necessitate a cautious approach for scholars and practitioners when engaging with the electronic realm as a different, yet instrumental facet in characterising tourism cosmopolitanism.

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Title: There’s a troll on the information bridge! An exploratory study of deviant online behaviour impacts on tourism cosmopolitanism
Authors: Aaron Tham (Corresponding Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
Mingzhong Wang (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
Publication details: Tourism Recreation Research, Vol.42(2), pp.258-272
Publisher: Routledge
Date published: 2017
DOI: 10.1080/02508281.2017.1298701
ISSN: 0250-8281; 2320-0308
Organisation Unit: School of Business and Creative Industries; Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; USC Business School - Legacy; School of Science, Technology and Engineering
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99450535902621
Output Type: Journal article

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