Technologies of hospitality: How planned encounters develop between strangers

Hospitality and Society

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 245-260

  Bialski, Paula ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CouchSurfing; Hospitality; Mobility; Offline; Stranger; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886599426     PISSN: 20427913     EISSN: 20427921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1386/hosp.1.3.245_1     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Bensman, J. and Lilienfeld, R. (1979), Between Public and Private: The Lost Boundaries of the Self, New York: Free Press.
2. Bialski, P. (2011), Becoming Intimately Mobile, Warsaw Studies in Culture and Society, Frankfurt: Peter Lang (in press).
3. Bourdieu, P. (1998), Practical Reason: On the Theory of Action, Cambridge: Polity Press.
4. Büscher, M. and Urry, J. (2009), 'Mobile methods and the empirical', European Journal of Social Theory, 12: 1, pp. 99-116.
5. Büscher, M., Urry, J. and Witchger, K. (eds) (2011), Mobile Methods, Abingdon: Routledge.
6. Chen, D.-J. (2011), 'Global concept, local practice: Taiwanese experience of CouchSurfing', Hospitality & Society 1: 3, pp. 279-97.
7. Derrida, J. (2000), On Hospitality, Stanford: Stanford University Press.
8. Elliott, A. and Urry, J. (2010), Mobile Lives: Self, Excess and Nature, Oxon: Routledge.
9. Garfinkel, H. (1967), Studies in Ethnomethodology, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
10. Geertz, C. (1973), 'Thick description: Toward an interpretive theory of culture', in C. Geertz (ed.), The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays, New York: Basic Books, pp. 3-30.
11. Germann Molz, J. and Gibson, S. (eds) (2007), Mobilizing Hospitality: The Ethics of Social Relations in a Mobile World, Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing.
12. Goffman, E. (1967), Interaction Ritual, London: Penguin University Books.
13. Hage, G. (2002), '"On the Side of Life": Joy and the capacity of being, a conversation with Ghassan Hage', in M. Zournazi (ed.), Hope: New Philosophies for Change, London: Lawrence & Wishart Books, pp. 150-71.
14. Larsen, J., Urry, John and Axhausen, Kay (2008), 'Coordinating face-to-face meetings in mobile network societies', Information, Communication & Society, 11: 5, pp. 640-58.
15. Lupton, D. (1998), The Emotional Self, London: Sage.
16. Pellegrino, G. (ed.) (2011), The Politics of Proximity: Mobility and Immobility in Practice, Abingdon: Ashgate.
17. Sennett, R. (2003), The Fall of the Public Man, New York: Penguin.
18. Sheller, M. and Urry, J. (2006), 'The new mobilities paradigm', Environment and Planning, 38: 2, pp. 207-28.
19. Simmel, G. and Wolff, K. H. (1950), The Sociology of Georg Simmel, Toronto: Free Press.
20. Steylaerts, V. and O' Dubhghaill, S. (2011) 'CouchSurfing and authenticity: Notes towards an understanding of an emerging phenomenon', Hospitality & Society 1: 3, pp. 261-78.
21. Tuan, Y.-F. (1974), Topophilia: A Study of Environmental Perception, Attitudes, and Values, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
22. van Dijk, J. A. G. M. (2005), The Network Society: Social Aspects of New Media, London: Sage Publications.
23. Westmoreland, M. W. (2008), 'Interruptions: Derrida and hospitality', Kritike: An Online Journal of Philosophy, 2: 1, http://www.kritike.org/journal/issue_3/westmoreland_june2008.pdf. Accessed 7 October 2011.
24. Bialski, P. (2011), 'Technologies of hospitality: How planned encounters develop between strangers', Hospitality & Society 1: 3, pp. 245-260, doi: 10.1386/hosp.1.3.245_1