Media, transportation and society: reflections on their transformations

This paper, that seeks to understand the relationship between mass media and transportation in society, stresses the impact of new electronic devices on people’s lives and, especially, on their holidays and free time. It stems from two ideas as theoretical hypothesis, the first one being that people, while on a nomadic life during their holidays, do not abandon routine tasks such as checking their email. The second one is that, in spite of the fact that the postmodern idea of global village means similarity, each place is different, which makes people travel to know them. I had detected two types in the observation: short connection time, use of computer for useful purposes (e-mail, social networks).