Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Tourism, Technology and Togetherness in a Mobile World 2. Fieldwork on the Move: Mobile Virtual Ethnography 3. Landscape: Connecting to Place, Connected Places 4. Gaze: Mobilizing and Mediating the Tourist Gaze 5. Hospitality: The Mobile Conviviality of CouchSurfing 6. Authenticity: Representation, Commodification and Re-Enchantment 7. Escape: Unplugging from Modernity 8. Conclusion: Performing Mobile Sociality

About the Author

Jennie Germann Molz is an assistant professor of Sociology at the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts. Her research focuses on the social and civic implications of tourism mobilities and technology. She is the co-editor of Mobilizing Hospitality and an editor ofathe journal Hospitality & Society. She has published extensively on the topics of tourism, mobility, hospitality, globalization, cosmopolitanism, and new technologies.

Reviews

"Informative and insightful. Summing Up:Highly recommended"- S. A. Mason, CHOICE, Vol. 50, No. 07