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9783631630709 03 05 83499 PeterLang AG 01 Publishers Order No 263070 02 3631630700 03 9783631630709 15 9783631630709 BB 01 Peter Lang WCS 2 02 21924961 2 15 9783631630709 1 A01 Paula Bialski Bialski, Paula Paula Bialski 01 eng 190 26 2.0 1727 10 SOC026000 10 SOC026010 12 GTC 12 JHBK 20 interaction 20 friendship 20 social networking 20 online computing 20 hospitality 20 Online social networks 20 Couchsurfing.com 20 Poland 20 Canada 23 Peter Lang 11.03.01 Kommunikationswiss. und Publizistik; Soziologie 23 Peter Lang 31.03.02 Soziologie; Familie,Altersgruppen,Freizeit,Psychol. 06 01 As more and more people become mobile to visit friends, family, and business colleagues using social networking websites, technologies in use today like Couchsurfing.com or online hitchhiking websites (OHWs) are allowing people to create new, planned encounters also between strangers. This book adds to the small body of work currently existing in the social sciences which describes ways in which the internet aids such face-to-face intimacy. Based on extensive research including 5 years of ethnography of couch surfers and OHW users and insights from over 3500 open-ended survey responses, this book explores the way meetings are initiated, relationships are strengthened or avoided, and the way hospitality and homemaking are negotiated. By explaining the process of becoming intimately mobile, this work creates an in-depth account of the relationships being created today as well as the problems that arise when defining friendship and closeness in a mobile world. 04 Contents: Ethnography of couch surfers and online hitchhiking websites - Negotiating of hospitality and homemaking in a mobile world - Mobilities - Mobility - Sociality - Hospitality - Homemaking - Couch surfing - Online hitchhiking - Computer-mediated communication - Ethnography. 04 08 01 http://www.peterlang.com/exportdatas/exportfiles/onix/toc/9783631630709_toc.pdf 13 Paula Bialski is a former lecturer in media and cultural studies at the Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities (SWPS). In 2011, she completed her doctoral dissertation at the Sociology Department at Lancaster University. 33 08 01 http://www.peterlang.com/exportdatas/exportfiles/onix/intro/9783631630709_leseprobe01.pdf 04 03 01 http://www.peterlang.com/exportdatas/exportimages/onix/cover/9783631630709.jpg Copyright Peter Lang AG 20120206 http://www.peterlang.com/?263070 Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 01 05 83499 Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften http://www.peterlang.com Frankfurt DE 04 20120309 2012 01 WORLD 01 210 mm 02 148 mm 08 360 gr 27 01 Publishers Order No 263070E 03 9783653015843 15 9783653015843 DG 05 83499 PeterLang AG 01 20 01 29.3 GBP GB Z 01 32.5 EUR Z 01 45.95 USD US Z 02 34.8 EUR DE R 02 35.8 EUR AT R 02 43 CHF CH R