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Informationen zum Autor David Bockino is a faculty member in the School of Communications at Elon University in Elon, NC. He was born and raised in New York and currently lives in Durham, NC with his wife and son. Klappentext Our modern day, multimedia, information-obsessed culture has fundamentally altered much of what we do day-to-day. The way we shop and pay bills. The way we communicate. The way we research, study, and learn.In the realm of travel we have more tools than ever telling us where to go, how to get there, what it will look like, what to do, and why we should go in the first place. This proliferation of constantly updated data has changed the way we go about our journeys. But how?By tracing the evolution of the guidebook from pilgrim manuals and Baedeker’s books to Yelp reviews and Google Maps, David Bockino explores the effects this information growth has had on the state of travel and adventure. Inspired by some of the world’s greatest explorers, he sets out guidebook-less to a destination he knows little about, launching an experiment to determine just how the guidebook and its digital descendants have transformed the nature of travel.The Guidebook Experiment is a call-to-action to conduct our own guidebook experiments, to disconnect from the ceaseless barrage of information in modern life and explore an unknown neighborhood or unfamiliar country and discover the joy of travel on our own. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART 1: THE GUIDEBOOK EVOLUTIONCHAPTER 1: THE GUIDEBOOK EVOLUTIONCHAPTER 2: EXPLORING NEW YORK CITYCHAPTER 3: THE HISTORY OF THE PROFESSIONAL GUIDEBOOKCHAPTER 4: THE HISTORY OF THE AMATEUR GUIDEBOOKCHAPTER 5: GUIDEBOOK BACKLASHPART 2: THE GUIDEBOOK EXPERIMENTCHAPTER 6: WHAT WE DON’T KNOWCHAPTER 7: MOVING ONCHAPTER 8: THE ART OF NEGOTIATIONCHAPTER 9: HOSTILITY AND HOSPITALITYCHAPTER 10: TETHERED INDEPENDENCECHAPTER 11: DESCRIBING THE INDESCRIBABLEPART 3: THE GUIDEBOOK EFFECTCHAPTER 12: THE RESULTSNOTES AND SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY ...
