The comment that I made was in no way a criticism of your post, just an
observation that I made in looking at Google News. When an academic
focus, discipline or field is new, it takes time and a wider awareness of
such a new area or such fields to get academic attention beyond its
borders. Actually your post was very interesting and got me looking into
search engines and databases before five o'clock in the morning, quite a
positive achievement considering I had my own list of things I planned to
do in that time slot.
It is interesting to note that Access News has 57 news stories that
mention the phrase dark tourism, Factiva cites 91 articles resulting from
a search of the phrase dark tourism, Lexis Nexis in Major Papers finds 25
citations using this phrase. I do apologize for any sense I gave of
minimizing the content of your post, I was simply observing that compared
to areas of study that had been around for a substantial time, the size of
the coverage in general media is still limited, but is showing substantial
growth as awareness of this research specialty filters into the world's of
information gatekeepers and the reading public at large. I further fully
agree with your observation that quantity aside there is a growing body of
citations with quality or significant coverage of matters related to or
involving dark tourism. Indeed, in the Net-Gold group that I moderate, I
have no less than 15 posts that mention this field by phrase.
Another important matter in this regard to keep in mind is that the
terminology is new and not the behaviors. The new terminology tends to
aggregate and extend awareness of behaviors that have existed for a very
long time without drawing the research attention of a specific field
devoted to the study of these behaviors, so that other groups of
terminology need to be found to uncover dark tourism activities that exist
and existed without the application of this phrase to describe these
activities and events. Also the literature will tend to be split amongst
other concepts as some may talk in terms of holocaust tourism or cemetary
tourism or battlefield tourism and not use in their articles or books the
phrase dark tourism. This multiplicity of terminology may serve to
further dilute knowledge of the actual size of the literature that can be
correctly classified as dark tourism related.
Net-Gold coverage of Dark Tourism:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22dark+
tourism%22+and+%22net-gold%22&start=0&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=0
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The URL immediately above finds these posts.
TOURISM AND TRAVEL: DARK TOURISM : TOURISM AND TRAVEL: RESEARCH ... ...
2002 Cited by 1 - Related Articles - Web Search [CITATION] Dark Tourism:
The Attraction ...
have drastically improved this year as is detailed in this Net-Gold post
...
net-gold - Nov 7, 8:56 am by David P. Dillard - 1 message - 1 author
TOURISM AND TRAVEL: RESOURCES: Dark-Tourism.org ... Net-Gold has
featured these previous posts regarding
dark tourism. TOURISM: DARK TOURISM ...
net-gold - Sep 2 2005, 3:07 pm by David P. Dillard - 1 message - 1 author
CEMETERIES: Appropriate Behaviour in British Cemeteries ... DARK
TOURISM: UNDERSTANDING VISITOR MOTIVATION AT SITES OF DEATH AND DISASTER A
... Temple
University (215) 204 - 4584 [log in to unmask] Net-Gold <http://groups.yahoo
...
Educator Gold - Oct 15, 8:11 am by David P. Dillard - 1 message - 1 author
TRAVEL: TOURISM: DARK TOURISM: The Morbid Sightseer ... Bee Temple
Terrace, FL http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Candyman/ http://groups.yahoo.
com/group/Genie-Angels/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/
http://groups ...
net-gold - Dec 2 2005, 11:46 am by [log in to unmask] - 1 message - 1
author
WRITING AND WRITERS: SOURCE CITATION AND BIBLIOGRAPHIC TOOLS ... ...
Dark tourism:the attraction of death and disaster. ... Temple University
(215) 204 -
4584 [log in to unmask] <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/net-gold>
<http://www ...
net-gold - Apr 3 2005, 6:08 am by David P. Dillard - 1 message - 1 author
TOURISM AND TRAVEL: RESOURCES : SOCIAL ISSUES: Dark Tourism ... ...
ssid=8&aid=219539&sid=LIF> Ground Zero and the phenomena of 'Dark Tourism'
<http://www ... [log in to unmask]
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/net-gold> <http:// ...
net-gold - Jun 13 2005, 4:57 am by David P. Dillard - 1 message - 1 author
TOURISM AND TRAVEL: HOSPITALITY ACCOMODATIONS HOTELS RESTAURANTS ... ...
Is Razed <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/15328> [This is
of particular
interest in the field of Dark Tourism] TRANSPORTATION: DISASTERS ...
net-gold - Oct 13, 9:08 am by David P. Dillard - 1 message - 1 author
TOURISM: DARK TOURISM : MUSEUMS: Oskar Schindler Museum to Open in ...
... com/4/poland_schindler_museum> Sincerely, David Dillard Temple
University (215)
204 - 4584 [log in to unmask] <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/net-gold>
<http://www ...
net-gold - Aug 1 2005, 8:45 am by David P. Dillard - 1 message - 1 author
TOURISM AND TRAVEL: RESOURCES: Some Source Links and Citations ... ...
AND TRAVEL: RESOURCES : SOCIAL ISSUES: Dark Tourism: Selected Resources in
Publication
and on the Internet <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/6565
...
net-gold - Jun 22 2005, 11:52 am by David P. Dillard - 1 message - 1
author
TOURISM AND TRAVEL: RESOURCES : RECREATION: RESOURCES: Electronic ...
... on Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Education (CHRIE) Dark Tourism
Forum Ecotourism ...
University (215) 204 - 4584 [log in to unmask] Net-Gold <http://groups.yahoo
...
net-gold - Sep 7, 8:48 am by David P. Dillard - 1 message - 1 author
TOURISM: RESOURCES : RELIGION: A Selected Bibliography of Sources ...
... of the unimaginable: the US Holocaust Memorial Museum Washington, DC,
and "dark
tourism". ... University (215) 204 - 4584 [log in to unmask] Net-Gold
<http://groups ...
net-gold - Feb 18, 10:53 am by David P. Dillard - 1 message - 1 author
TOURISM: RESOURCES : MUSEUMS: RESOURCES: Selected Publications ... ...
of the Unimaginable: The US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC, and
`Dark
Tourism'. ... University (215) 204 - 4584 [log in to unmask] Net-Gold
<http://groups ...
net-gold - May 3, 7:53 pm by David P. Dillard - 1 message - 1 author
RESEARCH: RESOURCES: Net-Gold Webliographies and Bibliographies ... ...
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/6536 Jun 13, 2005 Subject:
TOURISM
AND TRAVEL: RESOURCES : SOCIAL ISSUES: Dark Tourism: Selected Resources in
...
net-gold - Jul 4 2005, 12:52 pm by David P. Dillard - 1 message - 1 author
REFERENCE: DICTIONARIES: Your Dictionary.com ... The latest categories
are marked by a bullet." When I sent a recent post to this
list regarding "dark tourism" to Net-Gold, I scouted the internet with
Google ...
net-gold - Jun 15 2005, 12:08 pm by David P. Dillard - 2 messages - 2
authors
TOURISM AND TRAVEL: RESOURCES : RECREATION: RESOURCES : SPORTS ... ...
Information and Discussion
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/5972 TOURISM
AND TRAVEL: RESOURCES : SOCIAL ISSUES: Dark Tourism: Selected Resources
...
net-gold - Nov 29 2005, 9:25 am by David P. Dillard - 1 message - 1 author
TOURISM AND TRAVEL: RESOURCES : RECREATION: RESOURCES : SPORTS ... ...
Information and Discussion
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/5972 TOURISM
AND TRAVEL: RESOURCES : SOCIAL ISSUES: Dark Tourism: Selected Resources
...
net-gold - Nov 29 2005, 8:49 am by David P. Dillard - 1 message - 1 author
So to summarize, many thanks for getting me started on this topic, it is
most interesting to see the way in which a young field of interest starts
to difuse in the sources that carry discussion of the field and under what
nomenclature.
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
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On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, [iso-8859-1] Chris Hughes wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Nov 2006 05:24:18 -0500, David P. Dillard <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >Media coverage of this concept is anything but huge at this point in time,
> >however.
> ____
> REPLY:
> I did not mean to imply, David, that media coverage on dark tourism issues
> was huge, but merely that it was growing. Although your google search
> obviously dug up last Wednesday's New York Sun article, which I mentioned,
> google rarely picks up on magazine articles. Here the current issue of the
> BA Inflight Magazine, High Life, is a case in point. That dark tourism
> gets more than just a mention, but some serious attempt at explaining what
> it is for a general public (including a reference to Professor Lennon's
> work) is surely evidence of growing interest in the media. Worth
> remembering that High Life has a readership that very considerably exceeds
> any UK national paper. For reference the article is on page 24 of the
> November High Life. Anyway, for what it's worth...
> Chris Hughes
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