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Christine Lundberg

Christine skriver oftast om populärkulturturism som handlar om hur bland annat film, tv- och litteratur resulterar i turism.

Bitten by the Twilight Saga

[This blog post is in English due to international interest. If you want information in Swedish, please don't hesitate to contact me.] "Bitten by the Twilight Saga: From Pop Culture Consumer to Pop Culture Tourist" is the title of our chapter in a new book published by Routledge. (The full reference is: Sharpley, R. & Stone, P.R. (Eds) (2012) Contemporary Tourist Experience: Concepts and Consequences. Abington, Oxon: Routledge.) Twilight fans outside a Twilight Saga film location in...

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Twication Publication in the Making - Part 3!

[This blog post is in English due to international interest. If you want information in Swedish, please don't hesitate to contact me.] Here's yet another sneak peak from our upcoming book on Twilight tourism (second edition in English)! Book cover of the first edition of the book in Swedish which was published last year. This time I will give you an appetizer of chapter 3 which covers " Fans, Fandoms and Twilight" and starts of with a quote from Larry Carrol, MTV News in which he...

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Twication Publication in the Making - Part 2!

[This blog post is in English due to international interest. If you want information in Swedish, please don't hesitate to contact me.] It is time for yet another preview of our upcoming second edition book in English on Twilight tourism aka Twication™! The first edition of our book on Twilight tourism in Swedish. This weeks preview is from Chapter 2 which discusses the relationship between popular culture and the tourism that follows in the wake of different pop culture phenomena. This...

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Twication Publication in the Making!

[This blog post is in English due to international interest. If you want information in Swedish, please don't hesitate to contact me.] As some of you might already know, last year we published a book on Twilight tourism or Twication™ as we call it (Twilight + Vacation = Twication™). ;) It was published in Swedish but as we have come to realise that there is an international demand for the book, we've decided to publish a new edition of the book this year in English! The Swedish editi...

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Twilight Saga Soldiering: The Sequel

[This blog post is in English due to international interest. If you want information in Swedish, please don't hesitate to contact me.] It’s been just over a year since the director Bill Condon of the two final movies in the Twilight Saga franchise said: ”That’s a wrap!” somewhere in the British Columbia forests. Our research team was there. Well, not at the actual movie location at that point in time ;) but in British Columbia interviewing fans who had travelled there to be in the area...

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Vampire [Twilight] Tourism in Transformation?

[This blog post is in English due to international interest. If you want information in Swedish, please don't hesitate to contact me.] There are signs that Twilight tourism is in transformation and why should we be surprised? Pop culture tourism is based on phenomena that are transitory in nature. Lately we’ve seen a number of Twilight corporate organised events when the fourth movie in the saga was released on DVD/BlueRay as well as fan organised events. One of these was organised by...

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Twilight Fan Event - A Family Affair

[This blog post is in English due to international interest. If you want information in Swedish, please don't hesitate to contact me.] Last weekend the DvD and BlueRay of the fourth Twilight Saga movie “Breaking Dawn Part 1” were released in the US. Not only did retailers organise midnight release events for fans but also, fans themselves went out of their way to organise elaborate events in their homes. We were able to follow one of these events via live stream from a Twilight fan...

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LOVE, LUST AND LONGING AT TWILIGHT SAGA FAN EVENT

[This blog post is in English due to international interest. If you want information in Swedish, please don't hesitate to contact me.] During the Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (fourth movie in the Twilight Saga movie series) fan event in Stockholm in late October 2011, our research team conducted a data collection field trip. This data collection was almost identical to the study that we conducted in the summer of 2010 when a similar fan event was held in Stockholm for the third movie in...

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Countdown to Exciting Twilight Events

[This blog post is in English due to international interest. If you want information in Swedish, please don't hesitate to contact me.] Christmas is about to come early for Twilight fans in general with the up-coming premiere of the next installment of the Twilight Saga - Breaking Dawn Part 1 (21 days and counting) and for fans in selected cities in Europe and North America in particular with the on-going promotion tour of said movie. These events create tourism for many destinations...

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Vampire-Human Wedding, Conference Participation, and Up-Coming Book in the Making

[This blog post is in English due to international interest. If you want information in Swedish, please don't hesitate to contact me.] As the summer holidays are starting to come to an end, I spend a few moments to reflect on the events of this summer and upcoming autumn in terms of what is happening in the Twilight fandome and touristic activities that follows. First, the ”wedding of the century” at least for Twilightfans, is about to be held on the 13 th of August 2011 when Bella Swan...

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Om mig

Namn: Christine Lundberg
Befattning: Forskare på ETOUR
Bakgrund:
Christine Lundberg har en doktorsexamen från Handelshögskolan vid Göteborgs universitet i företagsekonomi.

Forskningsinriktning: Hon forskar idag främst inom området populärkulturturism som handlar om hur bland annat film, tv- och litteratur resulterar i turism. Detta görs inom ramen för ETOUR-projektet PopCultour där turism som uppstått världen över på grund av fenomenet Twilight sagan. Studier av Twilightturister och turismproducenter på destinationer världen över, såsom i Italien, Canada och USA, genomförs i projektet.

Från forskarbloggen

2012-06-29
Hur bra är svensk sommar?
2012-06-25
Bitten by the Twilight Saga
2012-06-24
Big data och arkiv
2012-06-19
Brukar litteraturvetare vara sällskapliga?
2012-06-18
Lärare som ledare 6: Björklund kontra Lgr 11 om lärares ledarskap

Från rektors blogg

2012-06-28
Almedalen 2012
2012-06-28
Utredning av lokalisering av universitets verksamhet
2012-06-28
Förvaltningsdagarna Åre