Phygital time geography, or: what about technology in tourists' space-time behaviour?
Mieli, Micol LU ; Zillinger, Malin LU and Nilsson, Jan-Henrik LU
(2024)
In Tourism Geographies
- Abstract
- The paper argues for the renewed relevance of time geography in tourism in light of the use of mobile technologies and ubiquitous connectivity. The paper proposes the concept of phygitality to understand how digital technologies are used in physical space, and how the interaction between the physical and the digital reconfigures tourists’ projects, paths, bundles, and constraints. The theoretical contribution builds on fifteen semi-structured interviews. The analysis shows that capability, coupling, and authority constraints are altered and mediated by digital devices. In the phygital time-space, tourists orient themselves in physical spaces, influenced by digital information; they create phygital paths and move between stations that... (More)
- The paper argues for the renewed relevance of time geography in tourism in light of the use of mobile technologies and ubiquitous connectivity. The paper proposes the concept of phygitality to understand how digital technologies are used in physical space, and how the interaction between the physical and the digital reconfigures tourists’ projects, paths, bundles, and constraints. The theoretical contribution builds on fifteen semi-structured interviews. The analysis shows that capability, coupling, and authority constraints are altered and mediated by digital devices. In the phygital time-space, tourists orient themselves in physical spaces, influenced by digital information; they create phygital paths and move between stations that result from the overlaying of digital information onto the physical space. Tourists’ goal-oriented mobility results in phygital projects, where logics of efficiency and optimization reduce the liminality of the tourist experience. Tourists’ bundles are created within and outside the physical vacation prism through digital communication. (Less)
- Abstract (Swedish)
- Artikeln argumenterar för en förnyad relevansen för tidsgeografi i
turism i ljuset av mobil teknikanvändning och allestädes närvarande
digital uppkoppling. Uppsatsen föreslår begreppet fygitalitet för att
förstå hur digital teknik används i det fysiska rummet, och
hur samspelet mellan det fysiska och det digitala omformas
i turisters projekt, rutter, kopplingar och begränsningar. Det teoretiska
bidraget bygger på femton semistrukturerade intervjuer. Analysen
visar att kapacitets-, kopplings- och auktoritetsrestriktioner ändras
och förmedlas i användning av digitala enheter. I det fygitala tidsrummet,
orientera sig turister i fysiska rum, påverkade av digital information;
de skapar fygitala vägar och... (More) - Artikeln argumenterar för en förnyad relevansen för tidsgeografi i
turism i ljuset av mobil teknikanvändning och allestädes närvarande
digital uppkoppling. Uppsatsen föreslår begreppet fygitalitet för att
förstå hur digital teknik används i det fysiska rummet, och
hur samspelet mellan det fysiska och det digitala omformas
i turisters projekt, rutter, kopplingar och begränsningar. Det teoretiska
bidraget bygger på femton semistrukturerade intervjuer. Analysen
visar att kapacitets-, kopplings- och auktoritetsrestriktioner ändras
och förmedlas i användning av digitala enheter. I det fygitala tidsrummet,
orientera sig turister i fysiska rum, påverkade av digital information;
de skapar fygitala vägar och rör sig mellan stationer som
resultat av överlagring av digital information i fysiska
platser. Turisters målinriktade mobilitet resulterar i fygitala projekt,
där logiker av effektivitet och optimering minskar
turistupplevelsens liminalitet. Turisternas relationer skapas inom och utanför
det fysiska semesterprismat genom digital kommunikation. (Less)
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- author
- Mieli, Micol
LU
; Zillinger, Malin
LU
and Nilsson, Jan-Henrik
LU
- organization
- alternative title
- Fygital tidsgeografi, eller: vad betyder teknologi för turisters tid-rumsbeteende?
- publishing date
- 2024-02-23
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- epub
- subject
- keywords
- digital, phygital, smartphones, space, time geography, tourism geography
- in
- Tourism Geographies
- pages
- 18 pages
- publisher
- Routledge
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85186425322
- ISSN
- 1461-6688
- DOI
- 10.1080/14616688.2024.2318722
- language
- English
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- yes
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