Travel selfies on social media as objectified self-presentation

Seong Ok Lyu

Tourism Management, 2016, vol. 54, issue C, 185-195

Abstract: While disseminating self-related information and travel selfies via social network sites, many tourists strategically adjust photographic images to manage their impressions. With a sample of Korean female tourists, this study aims to examine the underlying nature of strategic self-presentation behaviors characterized by women's personal efforts to edit and package their travel selfies posted on social media webpages. The results of this study indicate that several elements of self-objectification, including appearance surveillance and appearance dissatisfaction, are closely associated with female tourists' strategic self-presentational orientation. This study suggests different management implications to help tourism practitioners successfully distribute desired destination images using their clienteles' strategic self-presentation behaviors.

Keywords: Self-objectification; Social media; Strategic self-presentation; Travel selfies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2015.11.001

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