Couchsurfing Cosmopolitanisms : Can Tourism Make a Better World?.

ISBN:

9783839422557

Title:

Author:

Picard, David.

Personal Author:

Picard, David.

Edition:

1st ed.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (189 pages)

Series:

Kultur und soziale Praxis

Contents:

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 -- 4. Rooted Cosmopolitanisms, Deceived Kinship and Uneasy Hospitality among Couchsurfers in Tunisia -- 5. Learning to Perform the Exotic: Cosmopolitan Imagination, Participation and Self-Transformation among Taiwanese Couchsurfers -- 6. Allures of the Global, Gender and the Challenge to Confucian Hospitality among Vietnamese Couchsurfers from Ho Chi Minh City -- 7. Cosmopolitanism as Subcultural Capital: Trust, Performance and Taboo at Couchsurfing.org -- 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.

Local Note:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2019. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

Subject Term:

Tourism -- Social aspects.;Online social networks.;Cosmopolitanism.;Culture and tourism.;Tourism -- Technological innovations.;Hospitality industry -- Data processing.

Added Author:

Buchberger, Sonja.

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

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Publication Date:

2014

Publication Information:

Bielefeld :

Transcipt Verlag,

2014.

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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 is key reading for anyone interested in how computer mediated communication is changing contemporary forms of contact, travel and hospitality, and the kinds of cosmopolitism it brings into being.

Authors: David Picard, Sonja Buchberger, Jennie Germann Molz, Dennis Zuev, De-Jung Chen, Bernard Schéou, Jun-E Tan, Paula Bialski and Nelson Graburn.

Author Notes

David Picard (PhD) is a Research Associate at the Instituto Superior de Agronomia at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. His research explores tourism and tourism development in different contexts around the globe, divination, healing and witchcraft, and hospitality in Madagascar, and the culture of winemaking in Portugal.
Sonja Buchberger lectures at the Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL) and the School for Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, where she is currently completing her doctorate. Working in Tunisia and Morocco, she focuses her research on the tourism/hospitality nexus, the politics of new travel and intimacy in the Maghreb.