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Introduction: Couchsurfing in Lisbon, Tunis and Brisbane / David Picard and Sonja Buchberger -- Cosmopolitans on the couch: mobile hospitality and the internet / Jennie Germann Molz -- Hosting Marco in Siberia: couchsurfing hospitality in an "out of the way" place / Dennis Zuev -- Rooted cosmopolitanisms, deceived kinship and uneasy hospitality among couchsurfers in Tunisia / Sonja Buchberger -- Learning to perform the exotic: cosmopolitan imagination, participation and self-transformation among Taiwanese couchsurfers / De-Jung Chen -- Allures of the global, gender and the challenge to Confucian hospitality among Vietnamese couchsurfers from Ho Chi Minh City / Bernard Schéou -- Cosmopolitanism as subcultural capital: trust, performance and taboo at couchsurfing.org / Jun-E Tan -- Online to offline social networking: contextualising sociality today through couchsurfing.org / Paula Bialski -- Anthropology and couchsurfing - variations on a theme (an afterword) / Nelson Graburn