William Aspray, James W. Cortada

Authenticity (eBook, ePUB)

Understanding Misinformation Through the Study of Heritage Tourism

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book studies authenticity, which is a kind of truth to self, through the study of heritage tourism. When a heritage site is inauthentic, it leads to misinformation. Tourism scholars have been studying authenticity for about 50 years, and this book draws upon the theories and approaches of tourism studies to understand better misinformation, which has become a major topic of study since the US presidential elections in 2016. The book includes a discussion of common-sense and academic notions of authenticity, surveys a half century of scholarship on authenticity, and provides three case studies of heritage tourism sites: Lindsborg, KS (known as Little Sweden, USA), Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia, and the Gettysburg battlefield in Pennsylvania.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538172360
• Artikelnr.: 65736928

Autorenporträt

William Aspray, professor of information science, University of Colorado Boulder. Author or editor of more than 25 books on the history of computing, mathematics, and information, has written for such presses as MIT Press, Basic Books, and Springer.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Preface
1.Authenticity and Misinformation in the American Historical Experience
2.Academic Research by Tourism and Information Scholars
3.Authenticity in Small Heritage Tourism Sites: The Case of Lindsborg, KS
4.Authenticity in Large Private Heritage Tourism Sites: The Case of
Colonial Williamsburg
5.Authenticity in Large Public Heritage Tourism Sites: The Case of
Gettysburg
6.Lessons About Authenticity and Misinformation
Notes
Index
About the Authors