What happened when six travellers were told they were not allowed to post to Instagram | Michael James Walsh, Naomi F Dale and Raechel Johns

If you don’t take a selfie on holiday, did you really go on the holiday?

In the years since selfie sticks went global, it has become clear that the mobile phone has changed the way we travel. The ubiquity of social media means tourists can now produce content on the move for their networked audiences to view in close to real time.

Where once we shared slideshows post trip and saved prints and postcards as keepsakes, we now share holiday images and selfies from the road, sea or air – expanding the “tourist gaze” from the traveller to include remote audiences back home.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2Q2UkXr