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Hughes, Fan E., author Champ, Joseph, advisor Humphrey, Michael, committee member Badia, Lynn, committee member 2019-09-10T14:36:39Z 2019-09-10T14:36:39Z 2019 Hughes_colostate_0053N_15660.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10217/197429 https://doi.org/10.25675/3.018359 The present study is devoted to the exploration of place presentations and online representations of immersive place-based experiences by teenagers on Instagram. This study is curious to understand if students' from an international travel program, Rustic Pathways, presentations of place online are different or similar than descriptions of place experience offline and if these representations differ, why? The humanistic geography concept of 'place' and place attachment theory was used as a guiding framework for this study. This study employed a mixed methods approach, completing fifteen interviews with former Rustic Pathways students and textual analysis of ninety Instagram posts. The analysis applied multiple lenses of interpretation through a hermeneutic perspective as well as a critical textual analysis to understand both the constructed realities of place experience and to addresses the structures at work beyond individuals' actions within texts. After an extensive investigation into the phenomenon of place experience and place presentations on Instagram of Rustic Pathways participants on Instagram, I illustrate the place experience reflections as communicated by Rustic Pathways interview subjects. I also explore the interview subjects' descriptions of how their identity, values, and behaviors were influenced by place. I next explore the intersection of place and identity as observed on the Instagram platform. I examine how the data introduces conflicts in the communication of identity and experience as impacted by curated and invisible narratives, the discursive expectations of Rustic Pathways on the interview subjects and user's presentation of experience, as well as the influences of performativity on online representations of wild and exotic places. Finally, I explore the digital negotiations of place experience by examining the complexities of communicating offline experiences in an online space through identity performances. born digital masters theses English eng Colorado State University. Libraries 2000-2019 Copyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright. #instaworthy presentations of place: a place study of experience among teenagers on Instagram Text Master of Science (M.S.) Masters Journalism and Media Communication Colorado State University This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights (https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/). You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). open.access