Christine Lundberg

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

Happy Holidays from TwilightAcademy!

[This blog post is in English due to international interest. If you want information in Swedish, please don't hesitate to contact me.] As we have come to the final blog post of the year, a little reflection on what 2012 has brought us is in order. Our research group, The TwilightAcademy (when doing research on Twilight tourism) or PopCulTour (short for Pop Culture Tourism when we conduct research on other pop culture tourism phenomena) , has had an amazing year with meetings and seminars...

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IT'S IMPORTANT THEY SAY, BUT WHO'S PICKING UP THE TAB?

[This blog post is in English due to international interest. If you want information in Swedish, please don't hesitate to contact me.] As researchers of pop culture travels, we are regularly met with practitioners' general agreement that research on tourism in the wake of pop culture phenomena is important. They ask questions like: "Who are these tourists?", "What do they want?", "How can we make them visit our destination?", "How many can we expect?", "How long will it last?", and " Do we...

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Twication Publication in the Making - Part 9 - The Final Chapter!

[This blog post is in English due to international interest. If you want information in Swedish, please don't hesitate to contact me.] Only 1 (!!!) day left until the release of the final instalment in the Twilight Saga series! There's also just one chapter left for me to give you a sneak peek of our new book on Twilight tourism. Tomorrow night at midnight, we have together with Sweden's largest movie theater chain SF Cinema organised a give-away of our book at SF Cinema Sergel in Stockhol...

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Twication Publication in the Making - Part 8!

[This blog post is in English due to international interest. If you want information in Swedish, please don't hesitate to contact me.] Only 8 days left until the release of Breaking Dawn Part 2 and our book on Twilight tourism! The Internet is buzzing and the cast of Twilight Saga is travelling the globe promoting this final installment (the movie, not our book that is ;D) of the series, like there’s no tomorrow. We on our end, are also planning our mini-micro-version of promotion...

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Twication Publication in the Making - Part 7!

[This blog post is in English due to international interest. If you want information in Swedish, please don't hesitate to contact me.] 26 days left until the release of the final installment of the Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn: Part 2 , which means that it is 26 days until the release of our new book on Twilight tourism: Twication™: The Twilight Saga Travel Experience! As some of you may already know, we will be releasing the book in collaboration with Sweden's largest movie theater chain ...

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Twication Publication in the Making - Part 6!

[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 time for yet another sneak peek of our upcoming book on Twilight Saga tourism! This time, I'll give you a small preview of Chapter 6: Destination Twilight. This chapter describes the following Twilight destinations which are settings and locations , and where we have conducted field studies: - Forks and La Push, WA, USA – Home of Vampires and...

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Twication Publication in the Making - Part 5!

[This blog post is in English due to international interest. If you want information in Swedish, please don't hesitate to contact me.] We have now come half way through this series of sneak peeks of our upcoming book on Twilight Saga tourism! But before we head off to have a look at chapter 5, we are proud to present the full cover of the book! We are more than pleased with it and would like to extend a warm thank you to our friends in Montepulciano, Italy who so graciously have given us...

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Twication Publication in the Making - Part 4!

[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 time for yet another sneak peek at our upcoming book on Twilight tourism titled: TWICATION™: The Twilight Saga Travel Experience. The book will hopefully be available on Amazon by the time Twilight Breaking Dawn: Part 2 is released on the big screen. But now it is time for a short glimpse of Chapter 4 Twicationers™ - Twilight Fans as Tourists: "Wh...

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Att hitta hem i "Hem till gården"

Storbrittanien är känd för sin turism och satsning på resor till film- och tv-inspelningsplatser. Man kan exempelvis på Visit Britains hemsida se rekommendationer på destinationer där The King's Speech, Robin Hood, Sherlock Holmes, Braveheart, Harry Potter och DaVinci koden med flera är inspelade. http://www.visitbritain.com/sv/Things-to-do/Culture/Britain-on-film.htm Brittiska tv-serier såsom Morden i Midsomer, Hem till gården och Heartbeat drar stora mängder turister som reser för att...

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Thirsting for Hyperreality

[This blog post is in English due to international interest. If you want information in Swedish, please don't hesitate to contact me.] This summer, the Twilight Saga fandom has been struck by the "real" harsh reality of an on-screen romance turning into RL-love [i] story and then turning sour. Our need for what can be described as hyperreality, that is our inability or wish to distinguish reality from a simulation of reality (not sure that Baudrillard himself would agree with my applicati...

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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.

FORSKARBLOGGEN

2012-12-19
Happy Holidays from TwilightAcademy!
2012-12-19
Skolorganisation och skolkultur 5: Institution och organisation som innehåll och form
2012-12-14
Gästundersökningar och Åre på sommaren
2012-12-12
IT'S IMPORTANT THEY SAY, BUT WHO'S PICKING UP THE TAB?

REKTORS BLOGG

2012-12-14
Universitetsstyrelsen 12 december
2012-12-11
Skolans resultat
2012-12-10
Humboldt och Högskolan i Borås

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