hello and welcome back it's been a while but today i'm going to take you along with me
on a very productive yet pretty chill day in the life i'm studying and working on research projects
to try to get as much done as possible before the semester begins so i hope this video helps
inspire you to be productive because it definitely helped me be productive while i was filming it
i work as a research assistant for a marketing professor it has allowed me to find my passion
for consumer behavior research being involved in research even just as an undergrad assistant has
significantly improved my experience at cornell it gives me a sense of purpose that i was missing
before i fell in love with the hotel school because of its professors hospitality research
so being able to contribute to research is like a dream come true
so
so i'm working on reading a bunch of books about tourism studies because my research interest
in consumer behavior and behavioral marketing is about experiential consumption and i think
tourism is a really interesting facet of that but i'm having a lot of trouble conceptualizing
and articulating my research interest to me it's all there and it's all coherent but i'm
not finding the right words to successfully explain what i want to do in graduate school
so i'm reading a bunch of different books on tourism studies from a sociological and
anthropological perspective trying to understand okay how do those scholars conceptualize these
same kind of ideas that i would be approaching from an experimental social experimental social
psychology experimental social oh my god that i would be approaching from an experimental
social psychology perspective i'm currently rereading the tourist which was published in
the late 1970s but this edition has a new forward written by the author in 2013 explaining how his
takes on the tourist from 1970 now need to be refined with the new internet and digital age
and there's this quote that is just 100 exactly what i want to study so it's really exciting that
i now have more guidance in okay this is how i should try to articulate my research interest
because this is just hit the nail right on the head the growth of both international tourism
and the internet depend on a continuous vast expansion of imagery the difference is that
internet-based consumption can begin and end with digital images whereas in tourism images are only
the starting point of a journey that puts the tourist in the presence of the depicted object
or the thing itself so he's talking about the role of imagery and visual perception in internet
digital media consumption and in tourism itself which is something that i'm really interested in
and hope to explore so very exciting afternoon in the tourism studies research department
i decided to eat dinner outside while reading this book about fungus
just for fun started to rain while i was out there but it was kind of nice
i spotted someone walking their dog right here dog spotted after dinner i went on a walk to
campus just to get out of the house and also get a change of scenery by going to the library
i spent the rest of the evening at the eures library cocktail lounge which is much less
exciting than the name would suggest i worked on reading nography methods papers for consumer
behavior research i left the library and headed home i didn't get everything done that i wanted
to today but hey such is life i worked hard and was productive and it was a nice day
so i'm happy with that i hope you enjoyed this video and i'll see you in the next one bye
you