Do you tweet when you travel? We bet you do, that you post your photos and observations as you visit new places — if not on Twitter, then on Facebook, Instagram, tumblr, etc. That’s great, but what’s to become of more conventional forms or writing, especially travel writing? And even if there are some wonderful authors out there, will they find readers with attention spans stretching longer than 140 characters?
Our View From 22 special is about how social media is changing the nature of travel and travel writing. We caught up with Gary Arndt, who’s amassed 125,000 Twitter followers on @EverywhereTrip, as he travels around the world. It was hard to get hold of globe-trotting Gary, but we finally found him in an exotic high-rise location.
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We also gathered three travel writers — Mark Mason, Joanna Kavenna and John Gimlette — to discuss the topic.
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