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On The Road With The Vanlife Community: The Art Of Storytelling In The Age Of Instagram, Joseph Dorn
On The Road With The Vanlife Community: The Art Of Storytelling In The Age Of Instagram, Joseph Dorn
CMC Senior Theses
This thesis analyzes the countercultural community known as VanLife. Foster Huntington coined the term VanLife in 2011, when he decided to leave his comfortable job at Ralph Lauren and detach from society. Foster and many other individuals have moved into their vans to gain more freedom and live simply. For this thesis I studied the stories about life on the road, written by VanLife participants. I examined their blogs, photographs, and Instagram accounts. I did a literary analysis of Kerouac’s famous Beat novel, On The Road, as well as Steinbeck’s travel memoir, Travels with Charley.
I wanted to …