The narrative of contemporary travel

The ways of narrating the journey have become a great way in the early 21st century. They left behind the chatting circles, the film productions, the books and gained space on the Internet. This research aims to know how social networks are used by content creators (bloggers and influencers in the tourism industry) to record the trip and reflect on how the pedagogies in these spaces teach different ways of traveling. For the treatment and data analysis, content analysis was performed. The way of carrying out the research was inspired by the studies developed in Cultural Studies and based on various sources whose composition or content related to traveling, such as books, magazines, websites, and, mainly, blogs and social networks. Among the several authors studied, we highlight the research conducted on the different manifestations of the “self” in contemporary times, among them, texts by Zygmunt Bauman (2008), Gilles Lipovetsky (2016) and especially Byung-Chul Han (2015, 2016). The main results highlight that, in contemporaneity, the consumption of travel reports once made through books, technical magazine articles, documentaries, and even blogs were gradually being replaced by practical tips - which fit in spaces standardized by the creators of social networks such as Facebook and Instagram. In these spaces, users are educated to look at places in fragments. Ready-made lists and itineraries reduce cities to some landmarks. In addition, in these same “spaces,” the travel becomes a stage and the landscapes into scenarios for the most diverse representations, reinforcing the ideas of an ephemeral, transparent, volatile, individualistic, and accelerated life that mark them and teach recipes for traveling that ends up repeating itself on the screens.