Constructing Urban Tourism Space Digitally

TL;DR: Traditionally, urban tourism space is understood as a fixed, spatial entity. We follow a constructionist approach and argue that urban tourism space is also (re-)produced digitally and collaboratively on online platforms such as Airbnb. We relate our work to a CSCW research direction that is concerned with the role of digital technologies in the production and appropriation of urban space and use the concept of representations as a theoretical lens for our empirical study, in which we qualitatively analyzed how the two Berlin neighborhoods Kreuzkölln and City West are digitally constructed by Airbnb hosts in their listing descriptions. We…