No hotel in D.C.

Francesco Bolici

The First International Workshop on Collaborative Social Networks

Research Article

No hotel in D.C.

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.COLLABORATECOM2009.8389,
    author={Francesco Bolici},
    title={No hotel in D.C.},
    proceedings={The First International Workshop on Collaborative Social Networks},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={COLLABORATESN},
    year={2009},
    month={12},
    keywords={CouchSurfing distributed social networks web 2.0 collective intelligence network effects},
    doi={10.4108/ICST.COLLABORATECOM2009.8389}
}

Francesco Bolici
Year: 2009
No hotel in D.C.
COLLABORATESN
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.COLLABORATECOM2009.8389

Francesco Bolici¹^,*

1: OrgLab - DIAM, Cassino University, Cassino, Italy

*Contact email: francesco.bolici@eco.unicas.it

Abstract

CouchSurfing.com (CS) is an online non-profit network that connects travelers with locals in over 230 countries around the world. The project was lunched in 2004 and presently there are more than one million of registered CouchSurfers. CS community is a nexus of online and face to face relationships where most of Web 2.0 and social network externalities, privacy, security, etc. This is a first, brief, in progress and interpretative analysis of the SC system based on a participatory observation study started in August 2008.

Keywords: CouchSurfing distributed social networks web 2.0 collective intelligence network effects

Published: 2009-12-28
Publisher: IEEE

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/ICST.COLLABORATECOM2009.8389