ABSTRACT
Digital media and communications have greatly impacted why, where, and how people travel. The digital transformation of travel centers heavily on two areas: the live, networked nature of traveler communication capabilities, and the advent of digital photography. One of the most significant ways of framing and sharing travel memories is through photography, and the transition to digital photography has impacted travel in terms of both how tourists take photos and what they do with them. On the one hand, sharing similar images can play a role in producing collective experiences and identities around travel. This chapter explores how networked digital media are reshaping travel through the rise of apps that promise to help people travel like a local. The travel apps themselves are implicated in exclusions around the local, seen, for example, in the problems that Airbnb has had with discriminatory hosts or with the displacement of residents by taking possible long-term rental housing off the market.
