The Commodification of the Couch: A Dialectical Analysis of Hospitality Exchange Platforms
Online hospitality exchange (HospEx) platforms—essentially facilitating the connection between a traveller and a local resident—embody many of the cyber-utopian promises intrinsic to the Web as it started out 25 years ago. This paper investigates upon the antagonistic struggle between the commons an...
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Language: | English |
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Paderborn University: Media Systems and Media Organisation Research Group
2015-01-01
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Series: | tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique |
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Online Access: | https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/480 |