<p>This study has been about the representation of the Swedish tourism company Swanson’s. They do trips in US and every year they do a brochure with many pictures. The objective of my study is to look how pictures help to constructs places. Its often problem with pictures because sometimes they are constructs. In this way when people look at pictures they think the destination looks like the pictures. In the brochures I want to see what it is for pictures and through that see what kind of representation Swanson’s give of US. I have done both a quantitative and a qualitative research. For do a quantitative research I count all pictures in the both brochures and place them in 25 categories. To get a comprehensive picture of the result I interview a representing from Swanson’s. I analyzed some pictures too in the both brochures, together with the academic benchmarks. The conclusion of the study is that Swanson’s gives an American feeling from the pictures and a spirit from the Wild West. Many of the pictures are pictures of cowboys, native Indians and big, magnificent nature pictures. Other pictures are things that represent US, for example the Statue of Liberty. The tourist can be fooled, because they maybe think that US are like all the pictures in Swanson’s brochures. The authenticity is important for the representation in this way. The authenticity disappears sometimes, because we all know that Indians and cowboy don’t walk on the street today in US. Today we know through TV and internet that native Indians doesn’t exist in theirs genuine clothes and in this way we can accept Swanson’s pictures and dream away.</p>

Doctor of Philosophy / Department of Hospitality Management / Junehee Kwon / Festivals draw large numbers of visitors to tourist destinations and provide stakeholders with monetary and non-monetary benefits. Considering festivals’ positive influence on the host destinations and increasing competition, making festivals continuously successful is critical. However, little empirical work has been conducted that helps destination marketers and festival organizers increase festivals’ competitiveness. Thus, the purpose of this dissertation was to assess the nature of festival attendees’ experiences, and the way in which the experiences contribute to developing attendees’ voluntary behaviors that enable festivals to achieve a competitive advantage. Study 1 examined multiple dimensions of constructive authenticity and relationships among constructive authenticity, existential authenticity, and festival satisfaction. The link to the online survey was distributed by a survey research firm (Qualtrics) to potential participants who had attended at least one Renaissance Festival in the U.S. within the past 12 months. A total of 411 usable responses was collected and included in the final data analyses. The results of an exploratory factor analysis identified three underlying dimensions of constructive authenticity: performance, human, and physical environment. The proposed relationships were tested using structural equation modeling. The results indicated that existential authenticity was positively related to the human (β = .47, t = 5.20, p < .001) and physical environment (β = .43, t = 4.88, p < .001) factors but not to the performance factor. Further, existential authenticity was positively associated with festival satisfaction. Study 2 tested relationships among existential authenticity, festival satisfaction, affective commitment, and three dimensions of attendees’ customer citizenship behavior (CCB): helping others, making recommendations, and providing constructive suggestions to organizers. Responses to a self-administered questionnaire distributed by Qualtrics were collected, and 408 usable responses were used to test the research model proposed. The results showed that existential authenticity was positively related to festival satisfaction (β = .83, t = 15.65, p < .001). However, existential authenticity did not influence CCB. Festival satisfaction was not related directly to helping others, but was related positively to making recommendations (β = .36, t = 3.16, p < .01). Contrary to the prediction, festival satisfaction was associated negatively with providing constructive suggestions. Festival satisfaction was also linked positively with affective commitment (β = .66, t = 13.59, p < .001). The results underscored the positive effect of affective commitment on three dimensions of CCB: helping others (β = .67, t = 10.30, p < .001), making recommendations (β = .15, t = 2.39, p < .05), and providing constructive suggestions (β = .63, t = 9.60, p < .001). In addition, the significance of the indirect effects of existential authenticity on making recommendations via festival satisfaction, as well as festival satisfaction on helping others through affective commitment, was confirmed. The findings advance our understanding of perceived authenticity and CCB in the festival context. In addition to its contributions to the literature, destination marketers and festival organizers can benefit from the suggestions for practical applications. The study concludes with a discussion of its limitations and recommendations for future research.

Over the past decade, there has been a tremendous development in e-publishing tools. The Arab world tendency towards electronic publishing has facilitated the prosperity of Arabic e-publishing over the Internet. Likewise, it has enabled the ordinary user to deploy documents, letters, opinions, and ideas with freedom and ease of use. Although freedom of expression should be guaranteed to everyone, it may be used to disseminate false or distorted information. This may lead to the loss of ordinary user's confidence in e-content. However, the user's confidence in e-content will increase if the credibility of the content is emphasized. There are many factors that challenge this task including not only the rapidly growth of Arabic digital publishing, the absent from control over electronic content, and the lack of e-publishing regulations and laws, but also how to develop an efficient framework to confirm the digital content authenticity. Therefore, the need to monitor the credibility of Internet content while maintaining freedom of expression to its users has become an urgent matter of debate. A flexible framework needs to be developed that will overcome these issues and allow for a comprehensible and comfortable content validation environment that would satisfy the end users' desires. This thesis proposes a framework that serves to confirm fundamental text authenticity in Arabic scripts on the Internet. This framework will demonstrate the design and the development of new quotes verification algorithm and the necessary components of framework design, development and implementation based on Service Oriented architecture.

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Jakobs dagar is a cultural event that takes place in the city of Jakobstad in Finland. The aim of this paper is to see if the place identity that Jakobstad has matches the cultural event. The used method in this paper is focus groups with the locals from Jakobstad and an intervju with the organizer of the event, which is analyzed trough an thematic analysis. Jakobstads image is pitted against the image that Jakobs dagar depicts. The results are showing that the cutural image shown during the event fits the description of what the locals is regarding as Jakobstads cultural identity.

Despite the popularity of Vietnamese cuisine in Toronto, there is limited understanding of how this culinary cuisine is socially constructed through its consumption and production. This thesis research examines the production of Toronto’s Vietnamese culinary landscape with the aim of unpacking the discursive power relations between consumers’ and purveyors’ construction of authenticity through the processes of racialization. It also highlights the identities created through racialized consumption and production practices, and how such identity constructions are constitutive of Vietnamese culinary culture. To this aim, consumers were surveyed and in-depth interviews were conducted with owners and managers. Results from the fieldwork process demonstrated that both consumers and producers construct authenticity and images of Vietnamese culture for their own benefits but had different, and sometimes confounding, understandings of how such constructions are interpreted and practiced. / Thesis (Master, Geography) -- Queen's University, 2012-10-17 12:11:36.198

Despite a high rate of failure, the number of new enterprises is risingin Europe. This statistic demonstrates a strong will from many toengage in that path. When creating an activity is not an absolutenecessity to make a living, what can be strong enough to motivatepeople in engaging in a direction that appears to be difficult andhazardous? Passion is considered as an essential quality forentrepreneurs. Authenticity is showered with praise by many as arequirement for good leaders. This thesis investigates the role and evolution of authenticity andpassion during an entrepreneurial life. Authenticity is related to selfvalues of an individual, no matter what role s/he is enacting. Passionis arising from within the entrepreneur. It is often associated toentrepreneurs as the ultimate fuel for action. Passion can be both – ablessing and a curse (when turning into obsession). For that reason, itshould be carefully managed. The data were gathered through semi-structured interviews with sevenentrepreneurs. They show that passion for the field of activity is notnecessarily the strongest trigger for a person to take action. Rather thedesire to act in agreement with the self is a strong incentive forentrepreneurship. The entrepreneur’s authenticity becomes the basison which passion can blossom. The research comes to the conclusion that entrepreneurs are embeddedin an environment which influences them (in the way they buildthemselves) and which they can impact as well by choosing, or not, totake action. The Entrepreneurial Action Cycle illustrates this reciprocalimpact and includes the authenticity and passion factor. In that sensethe entrepreneur's authenticity is both: put under external pressureand acting as a light house guiding the entrepreneur on his/her path.

This paper examines and analyzes Hillary Clinton's Twitter account activity between July 1, 2016 and August 28, 2016 in an attempt to determine the perception of authenticity on social media and whether Hillary Clinton was effective in improving her image during the 2016 presidential election. This thesis questions whether Twitter is a reliable tool in determining authenticity.

This thesis on Work of Pavel Kohout from 1979 to 1989 deals the period of Kohout's life and work during his exile in Austria. The aim was to find out the main characteristics of Pavel Kohout's prosaic art and also to compare the period critiques and show their contact and different points. The first part focuses on a destiny of Pavel Kohout in chosen decade. The second part examines his novels Nápady svaté Kláry and Hodina tance a lásky together with the memoir-novel Kde je zakopán pes. The final part studies the period critiques and try to point out their similarity or difference. Thanks to analysis, the author found out that in exile Pavel Kohout continues in his poetic style, but his work also evinces the element of autentization. The novels Nápady svaté Kláry and Hodina tance a lásky represent Kohout's ability in fabulation. Value of the memoir-novel Kde je zakopán pes consists in its genre, which places the text on the border between fiction and non-fiction. The author proved that the beletrization of own memories increases the esthetic impact of a text. A comparison of certain critiques showed that a literary criticism looks at Kohout's work inconsistently. In novels Nápady svaté Kláry and Hodina tance a lásky the reviewers appreciate the presentation of chosen themes. The memoir-novel is often...

This thesis examines German philosopher Martin Heidegger’s concepts of being and time, the role of language in being, and ways of authentic being through the lens of modern media practices in the Information Age. It relates Heidegger’s philosophy to the media ecology theory introduced by Marshall McLuhan in the 1960s by exploring McLuhan’s themes of tribal, typographical and electronic man. In addition, this thesis considers the role of mass media in information dissemination. The goal of this report is to explicate the shaping effects of mass media, especially social media, on individual perceptions and societal culture and identify ways in which such shaping affects authentic ways of being.