Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Warsaw Studies in Culture and Society
ISBN-10
3631630700
ISBN-13
9783631630709
Edition
New
Publisher
Peter Lang AG
Imprint
Peter Lang AG
Country of Manufacture
DE
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 9th, 2012
Print length
190 Pages
Weight
362 grams
Dimensions
21.90 x 15.40 x 1.60 cms
Product Classification:
Communication studiesSociology: family & relationships
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Becoming Intimately Mobile
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.
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