Packaging Culture: The Potential and Limitations of Travel Programs on Global Television.
This study interrogates the representational politics of travel programs as examples of global media products. It presents a textualization analysis of the three television travel shows Rough Guide, Lonely Planet, Travelers, all aired in the U.S. by the cable outlet Travel Channel. Beyond merely hig...
| Publicado en: | Communication Quarterly Vol. 50; no. 2; pp. 204 - 227 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Spring2002
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