ISBN:
9783837622553
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9783839422557
,
9783839422557
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (187 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Culture and social practice
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.4819
Keywords:
Privatquartier
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Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung
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Weltbürgertum
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Gastfreundschaft
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Kulturkontakt
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Übernachtung
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General
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Cosmopolitanism
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Culture and tourism
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Hospitality industry / Data processing
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Online social networks
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Tourism / Social aspects
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Tourism / Technological innovations
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Tourism Social aspects
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Online social networks Technological innovations
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Cosmopolitanism Data processing
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Culture and tourism
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Tourism
;
Hospitality industry
;
Privatquartier
;
Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung
;
Kulturkontakt
;
Übernachtung
;
Gastfreundschaft
;
Weltbürgertum
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Weltbürgertum
;
Gastfreundschaft
;
Privatquartier
;
Übernachtung
;
Kulturkontakt
;
Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung
Description / Table of Contents:
Biographical note: David Picard (PhD) is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Anthropology at the New University of Lisbon, Portugal. His research in La Réunion and Madagascar has been focused on tourism development, environmental policy, NGOs, divination, healing and witchcraft, and hospitality. 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
Description / Table of Contents:
Main description: 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
Description / Table of Contents:
Review text: »The various experiences as hosts and guests plus nine different writing styles make the book a varied reading. Following the authors experiences, the results of their studies are sometimes presented as interested facts nearby; hence it is not like reading an academic paper but fun and informative. Moreover it makes the book accessible for a broader audience and allows an ongoing exchange between academic and current discussions.« Paula Salomo, www.urbanophil.net, 08.08.2013
DOI:
10.14361/transcript.9783839422557
DOI:
10.1515/transcript.9783839422557
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