The rise of peer-to-peer or collaborative economy tourism accommodation harnesses digital technologies to connect hosts and guests who would otherwise never have connected. In the process, new markets are created, access to new products and experiences are facilitated and new opportunities for...

This book employs an interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral lens to explore the collaborative dynamics that are currently disrupting, re-creating and transforming the production and consumption of tourism. House swapping, ridesharing, voluntourism, couchsurfing, dinner hosting, social enterprise and...

House swapping, ridesharing, voluntourism, couchsurfing, dinner hosting and similar innovations epitomize the collaborative economy. The rise of the collaborative economy, also known as collaborative consumption, the sharing economy and peer-to-peer consumption, has been fueled by a range of...

Acknowledgments -- About the editors -- About the contributors -- Introduction to the new production of users / Sampsa Hyysalo, Torben Elgaard Jensen and Nelly Oudshoorn -- Rethinking and extending theoretical approaches to the production of users in innovation -- Protecting the right to...

Identity in the Age of the New Economy is a multi-faceted view of contemporary employment and identity that questions a number of the myths related to the so-called new economy, knowledge society or network society. It argues that one of the most striking things about much contemporary...

The paper discusses three ways of appropriating Instagram for social research through the case of obesity. We draw on the notion obesogenic environments, in which obesity is understood as related to a wide range of cultural, social and physical factors. Together with a group of obesity...