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标题：Backpackers as a Community of Strangers: The Interaction Order of an Online Backpacker Notice Board
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作者：Barbara Adkins ; Eryn Grant
期刊名称：Qualitative Sociology Review
印刷版ISSN：1733-8077
电子版ISSN：1733-8077
出版年度：2007
卷号：III
期号：02
出版社：Lodz University
摘要：While commercial images of "backpacking" emphasise adventure, youth and sightseeing, recent ethnographies of backpackers identify other motivations and rationales that accentuate travel experiences as formative of the self and identity. This raises the question of the basis of this apparently common orientation. This paper investigates, through analysis of postings on an electronic backpacker notice board, "backpacker" as a collaboratively constructed category. We propose that the shared understandings of "backpacker" enabled by these notice boards are consistent with cultural orientations captured in notions of cosmopolitanism involving a shift to new forms of sociality across borders: a solidarity with strangers.
关键词：Backpackers; Interaction Order; Cosmopolitanism; Information and Communication; Technology.