Are Instagram Theme Parks Shaping Our Perception of Culture?

[BillTre]

This NY Times article describes a place in china where there are a lot of what amount to outside studio set-ups for Instagrammers and others looking for interesting things to post on. In this case "old time" China.

By going to great lengths (similar to studio production methods), they attract enough posters to economically support their existence (within thee economic realm), and therefore can have an impact on our cultural world.

One could image Instagram theme parks like this for a variety of different themes.
Small places, with idyllic settings might make a local economic impact out of this.
Others based on other SciFi concepts could be set-up.

 

[.Scott]

In my town of Pelham, NH every season the "Garden Group" sets up a Christmas sleigh display used for photography. As trail adopter for one of the Town Forests, I have thought about setting up something with a similar purpose.

 

[Klystron]

My home town offers numerous sites and sets for travelers to place themselves and family in convincing replicas for Internet photos; most indoors but some outdoors including a scale model of the Eiffel Tower set above a miniature Paris. I took photos and video of my late mother speaking Klingon while playing slot machines aboard the Starship Enterprise while her granddaughters floated languidly nearby in gondolas on replica Venetian canals.

Visitors from Israel and Egypt enjoy sleeping and exploring inside the Luxor pyramid; something that cannot be experienced in the actual pyramids. My favorite photo sites include walking under/within the enormous aquariums -- "Shark Reef" at Mandalay Bay, the "singing dancing water fountains" outside the replica Italianate Bellagio and the ever changing botanical gardens indoors at the Conservatory.