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, relat…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-3-631-63070-9
- EAN: 9783631630709
- Produktnummer: 19228492
- Verlag: Peter Lang
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.8 cm x D1.4 cm 364 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 364
Über den Autor
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.
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