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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Main Author: Simon Schöpf
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Paderborn University: Media Systems and Media Organisation Research Group 2015-01-01
Series:tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique
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Online Access:https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/480