Mediatisation and social sustainability – an ambivalent relationship
(2021) Knowledge for Sustainable Development – Lund University Research Conference, 2021- Abstract
- Mediatisation is one of the central concepts by which to understand how the intensifying media and communications environment constructs our social world. The aim of research is to examine the conditions of sustainability communication in a media economy of visibility and recognition. To this end, we focus on how the phenomenon overtourism is constructed as a social sustainability challenge in news- and social media.
This research emphasises the dialectics of media and social institutions in examining
overtourism as a challenge for sustainable development in European urban destinations. Narrative analysis of the emergence of overtourism on online news media and social media platforms was conducted during... (More) - Mediatisation is one of the central concepts by which to understand how the intensifying media and communications environment constructs our social world. The aim of research is to examine the conditions of sustainability communication in a media economy of visibility and recognition. To this end, we focus on how the phenomenon overtourism is constructed as a social sustainability challenge in news- and social media.
This research emphasises the dialectics of media and social institutions in examining
overtourism as a challenge for sustainable development in European urban destinations. Narrative analysis of the emergence of overtourism on online news media and social media platforms was conducted during 2017-2019.
Findings underscore the ambivalent relationship between mediatization and sustainability. Media narratives construct overtourism as an unsustainable situation for urban destinations, whilst at the same time promoting the attractiveness of these places. Overtourism brings prosperity as well as urban decay and cultural despair to cities. We contend that the ambivalence surrounding the sustainability challenge of overtourism in the media is an obstacle to discussions of concrete measures. At the same time, ambivalence may lead to a greater reflexivity concerning social sustainability, which may be harnessed as a resource for change. (Less)
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- author
- Cassinger, Cecilia LU and Månsson, Maria LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2021
- type
- Contribution to conference
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- mediatisation, urban tourism, social sustainability, overtourism
- conference name
- Knowledge for Sustainable Development – Lund University Research Conference, 2021<br/>
- conference location
- Lund, Sweden
- conference dates
- 2021-05-04 - 2021-05-04
- project
- Rethinking urban tourism development: Dealing with sustainability in the age of over-tourism
- language
- English
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- yes
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- 8e942ecd-7801-4925-a332-f12f1033b59c
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- 2021-05-03 13:38:42
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