{"id":20044,"date":"2025-12-20T11:27:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T19:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/social.coldstreams.com\/?p=20044"},"modified":"2025-12-23T20:39:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T04:39:52","slug":"media-how-travel-writing-became-self-centered-narcissism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2025\/12\/20\/media-how-travel-writing-became-self-centered-narcissism\/","title":{"rendered":"Media: How travel writing became self-centered narcissism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2025\/12\/19\/industry-and-academic-research-confirms-that-travel-writing-has-become-self-centered-narcissism\/\">Industry and academic research says travel writing has become self-centered narcissism \u2013 Coldstreams Travel and Global Thinking<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Related, with examples: <a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2024\/12\/20\/is-travel-writing-narcissistic-some-think-so\/\">Is travel writing narcissistic? Some think so \u2013 Coldstreams Travel and Global Thinking<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And: <a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2018\/01\/21\/does-social-media-play-a-role-in-wealth-culture-2\/\">Does social media play a role in \u201cwealth culture\u201d? \u2013 Social Panic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travel writing has become self-centered, narcissistic, female focused &#8211; because Editors and content creators are working to satisfy &#8220;The Algorithm&#8221;.  Self-centered stories, about the writer, not the destination, often presented as overcoming a victim-like challenge, are what gets the clicks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,362,20,24,29,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emotion","category-gen-z","category-gender","category-in-practice","category-media","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}