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1 online resource |
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Cover Couchsurfing Cosmopolitanisms ; Content; 1. Introduction: Couchsurfing in Lisbon, Tunis and Brisbane ; 2. Cosmopolitans on the Couch: Mobile Hospitality and the Internet ; 3. Hosting Marco in Siberia: Couchsurfing Hospitality in an "Out of the Way" Place. |
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8. Online to Offline Social Networking: Contextualising Sociality Today Through Couchsurfing.org 9. Anthropology and Couchsurfing -- Variations on a Theme (An Afterword) ; List of Contributors ; Index. |
| Summary |
The book provides unique insights into the culture of computer-mediated hospitality and how this has begun to transform contemporary tourism and travel practice. Focusing on Couchsurfing.org, one of the largest online hospitality communities worldwide, the authors explore how social relations, intimacy and trust are built in the online environment and then extended into the offline contexts of actual tourism and travel. Being active couchsurfers themselves, the authors scrutinise the candid claim by much of the online hospitality community that couchsurfing creates a »better world±. The book i. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Tourism -- Social aspects.
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Tourism -- Social aspects. |
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Online social networks.
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Online social networks. |
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Cosmopolitanism.
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Cosmopolitanism. |
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Culture and tourism.
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Tourism -- Technological innovations.
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Culture and tourism. |
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Tourism -- Technological innovations. |
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Hospitality industry -- Data processing.
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Tourism. |
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Hospitality industry -- Data processing. |
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Hospitality industry. |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781306997829 |
| ISBN |
1306997828 (electronic book) |
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9781306997829 (electronic book) |
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9783839422557 (electronic book) |
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3839422558 (electronic book) |
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