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T1 Virtual Reality and Reading Cities: GPS-based Applications as a New Form of Literary Tourism
A1 Stefanovska, Ana
A2 Mejón, Ana
A2 Conte Imbert, David
A2 Zahedi, Farshad
AB Drawing upon Westphal’s idea of the city conceived as a “mega-Book”, recentstudies in the field of Digital Humanities have shown an interest in translating realitineraries into fictional ones, as well as in introducing imaginary spaces and charactersto our geospace. Since this interrelation between the real and fictional has become ablurred one, new layers of meaning have been attributed to the geographical places andtheir potential economic benefit when used in relation to tourist attractions. The processof this hyper-realization, a technologically and culturally mediated experience that takesreality to its limits, is nowadays impacting the most actual practices of cultural tourismin Italy and beyond. Introduced by the intersection between fiction and reality and putinto practice by means of geospatial technologies, the use of advanced “interactive maps”and GPS-based applications as means of orientation is constantly changing the conceptof literary pilgrimages and “jet-setting” tourism. The aim of this presentation is to reflecton the intersection between actual concepts such as “reading spaces” as defined byWestphal and Baudrillard’s “hyper-reality” that do not only endow the idea of travelingwith a different, modified character, but also tend to merge real spaces, fictional placesand virtual maps, and, thus, modify the concept of “reality” itself.
PB Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
SN 978-84-16829-44-6
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/29992
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/29992
LA eng
NO Comunicación presentada en el Congreso Internacional Interdisciplinar "La ciudad: imágenes e imaginarios" celebrado en la Facultad de Humanidades, Comunicación y Documentación, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid del 12 al 15 marzo de 2018.
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