ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book suggests that the image-based mobile social networking platform, Instagram, provides opportunities for unique forms of ‘digital activism that challenges the intersectional invisibility of black lesbian sporting celebrities’ and which opens up all too invisible discussions about domestic abuse within LGN relationships. It explores the biopedagogies of fitness information on social networking sites with respect to the entrenchment of neoliberal responsibility, the promotion of idealised images of emaciation and, the governance and control of the body related to weight loss ‘health’ behaviours of young women. The chapter also provides insight into the ways in which commodified digital technologies are literally editing out ‘memories’ of tourist place and leisure practice, reconceptualising understandings of alternative leisure realities and points to the ways in which post-tourists are increasingly the auteurs – or prosumers – of their leisure experiences.
