“Are there new ways of travelling facilitated by Instagram? Does this have the potential to enhance or diminish our travel experience?” Limitations Like many U&G studies (Ruggiero 2000), this study relied on established studies and research papers and also primary interviews. Self-reports are restrictive as they are based on the interviewee’s personal memory which can…
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Social media enhances memories and diminishes human interaction
“Are there new ways of travelling facilitated by Instagram? Does this have the potential to enhance or diminish our travel experience?” Following on from the secondary research discovered in the previous blog, I went on to conduct primary research to understand a small minority group of seasoned backpackers to understand their insights. I decided to…
Hedonism is the aim
Read this post because you love to travel. You might want to learn how to travel. You might be too scared to travel. You are curious. You are brave. Just like my blog is titled, there is a lust for wanderlust inside you. Be a nomad. Travel is my true passion and being a millennial…
Labour Legend Tackles Technology
Labour legend, Norma Wilson, tackles not only the political upheaval of our country but also speaks out on the growing need of the elderly to be taught how to use technology. Small business, Living Connected, assists the elderly to set up and use computers whereby they remain independent, connected and engaged. Getting the interest of…
The Loneliness of Ageing
Due to an ageing and growing population, the environment is changing regarding the care provided for the elderly. Society leads a time-poor schedule and the trend in caring and simply ‘spending time’ with the elderly is decreasing at a rapid rate, and this issue is not being talked about. Due to the changing nature of…
Listening is the key to Future Growth.
I earlier wrote a blogpost about the process of ethnography which focuses on the study of people and cultures, with the aim to understand how people live. Hermann Bausinger who studies empirical culture, intelligently sums up the difficulties of the ethnographic process, stating, “A bit of wild thinking is needed to catch and describe this…
A Reflection in Blogging
Throughout this process of blogging I have discovered two things: I love to blog. I don’t have time to blog. It’s so ironic; if I loved to blog I would make time to blog? Josh Pulman in his Somewhere Else project states “Everywhere we go, we carry with us options far more enticing than the…
Have we just regained faith in society?
Last week I interviewed my Mum about her memories of television when she was growing up. This gave my Mum great joy and excitement for participating in my research as it gave her a recollection of positive memories and interestingly reflected on nothing negative. As fellow students were asked to reflect on their interaction with…
Wanderlust. 