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Smart Crime Tourism as Multilayered Cultural Encounters: Exploring Aarhus via Locative Media and Crime Narratives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 September 2020

Cathrin Bengesser  and
Anne Marit Waade
Cathrin Bengesser
Affiliation:
Media and Journalism Studies, Aarhus University, Helsingforsgade 14, 8200Aarhus N, Denmark. Email: [email protected]
Anne Marit Waade
Affiliation:
Media and Journalism Studies, Aarhus University, Helsingforsgade 14, 8200Aarhus N, Denmark. Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

This article investigates the trend of smartphone-enabled screen tourism based on the findings from practice-based research carried out during the development and testing of the locative screen tourism experience ‘DETECt Aarhus’. This work shows how smart screen tourism can facilitate multilayered cultural encounters because it can provide a multifaceted perspective on locations and can motivate people to explore local culture. App-guided tours enable the embodied and emotional experiences of traditional screen tourism, but in a more flexible way that eases the crossing of thresholds between the material space and fictional places of crime stories. The testing of the DETECt Aarhus app’s pilot version further highlighted that popular crime narratives and smart tourism technology can address a broader group beyond fans of specific crime media. In addition, visitors with no previous connection to (local) crime stories can use apps to encounter the destination as a material space, fictional place and site of cultural production.

Type
Focus: Crime Fiction as a Mirror of Europe’s Changing Identities
Information
European Review , Volume 29 , Issue 5 , October 2021 , pp. 635 - 650
Copyright
© 2020 Academia Europaea

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