#3871. Tourism and symbolic power: Leveraging social media with the stance of disavowal

September 2026publication date
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Philosophy;
Language and Linguistics;
History and Philosophy of Science;
Linguistics and Language;
Sociology and Political Science;
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Abstract:
Social media use has become a common feature of contemporary tourism, yet in face-to-face interactions tourists often distance themselves from online engagement. Drawing on interviews collected at a popular tourism site in Myanmar (Burma), tourists are found to recurrently take a stance of disavowal regarding social media use, downplaying and rationalizing their engagement or locating a tourist out-group against which their own behaviour can be favourably compared. This case study of stance-taking regarding social media use reveals the dynamics of tourisms longstanding function as a distinction-making practice, with social media use but one of many behaviours that tourists critically evaluate in the pursuit of symbolic capital.
Keywords:
distinction; Myanmar (Burma); social media; stance; symbolic capital; tourism

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