http://hdl.handle.net/10174/14583 2026-04-18T05:17:29Z http://hdl.handle.net/10174/41139 Title: Orange the World: #HearMeToo Authors: Costa, Rosalina Pisco Editors: Shackelford, T.K. Abstract: Orange the World: #HearMeToo is the 2018 United Nations theme for the international campaign “The 16 Days of Activism against Gender- Based Violence,” which brings together various initiatives and multi-formats, including public demonstrations by people and organizations displaying orange and a global feminist hashtag to raise awareness and action to end violence against women and girls. 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10174/34402 Title: Mobilizing Tourism Authors: Sales Oliveira, C.; Costa, Rosalina Editors: Buhalis, D. Abstract: Mobilizing tourism refers to a particular kind of tourism in which the experience of mobility itself constitutes the central element. Mobilizing tourism targets a niche market of consumers with specific profiles. Overlapping broader contemporary social movements such as slow tourism, slow travel and green travel/tourism, this type of tourism represents a reflexive personal engagement with certain values and, therefore, a political statement. Through travel narratives, notably travel blogs and social media, tourists/travellers praise experiences that are ethically committed to the values of sustainability, a low-carbon society and social justice. While mobilizing tourism reflects the tourist experience as deeply subjective, it also feeds the tourism management and marketing sector, informing new trends and requiring adjustments in the sector. 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10174/34399 Title: Genealogy Tourism Authors: Costa, Rosalina Editors: Buhalis, D. Abstract: Genealogy tourism is a specific type of tourism that involves travelling to destinations to which the tourist is connected by family or ancestral origin. Genealogy tourism is also known as ancestral tourism or roots tourism (see the entry ‘Roots Tourism’ in this Encyclopedia). Influenced by emotional connection and affective memory, thousands of people travel every year to meet people or find places imagined from a blend of memories, family stories and myths. The trip may include distant destinations that they have abandoned sometime in the past, from which they were forcibly removed, or where they have never been. Tourists (re)visit countries, cities, towns and neighbourhoods, ruins, memorials and diverse places of historical resonance, but also private and sometimes anonymous or secret places known or referred to only by the family. Individuals search for traces, street names, nicknames, houses and objects, traditions, smells, colours, textures and flavours of personal relevance that they incorporate into the ways they construct their identity and the self. 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10174/27140 Title: Ritual View Authors: Costa, Rosalina Editors: Merskin, Debra L. Abstract: A theoretical construct developed within the framework of communications theory, the ritual view concept, was primarily developed by James W. Carey (1934–2006) whose work distinguishes between the view of communication as ritual and the view of communication as the transmission of information. The ritual view emphasizes the power of communication in the construction and maintenance of a sense of community. This idea is consentaneous with the literature coming from the field of ritual studies. As a focus of attention in diverse disciplines, rituals can be understood as events or occasions considered to be special and holding symbolic meanings shared among the participants who thereby feel interconnected. Nowadays, although some observers have advocated for the abandonment of ritual, others recognize its persistence as a powerful tool for constructing social reality and revealing its dynamics. Empirical studies conducted worldwide, especially in media ethnography, have contributed to confirm the continuing interest of using Carey’s ritual view to understand the (in)visible dynamics of communities, not only on a local scale but increasingly in connecting globalization to lived local culture. This entry first compares the ritual view and the transmission view in Carey’s conceptualization and then discusses how the ritual view relates to other research on communication and how it relates to the use of media, particularly online media. 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z