About this book -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1 Systems of Intimate Mobility -- Formalizing mobile systems -- What is Couchsurfing.com? -- Online hitchhiking websites -- Searching out new patters of interaction -- Chapter 2 (Intimately) Mobile Methods -- Where it began -- Couch and Car Participant Observer -- Interviews -- Open-Ended Survey Responses -- Desk Research -- Emerging Practices in a Global Culture -- Chapter 3 Mobile Intimacy: Research Paths -- Mobility - Physical mobility -- New Modes of Communication -- Mobile Networks -- Social Networking: a union with others -- Mobile spaces -- The intimate people -- Mobile sociability -- Some Conclusions -- Chapter 4 Technologies of Hospitality: issues of interaction in planned encounters between strangers -- Opening the doors of hospitality -- Technologies of power -- Guests and passengers: the guest -- The passenger -- Payment as reciprocity -- Spaces of hospitality: the host and their home -- In-car hospitality -- A new familiarization process -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Rituals in mobile homemaking: Food, dwelling, and talk -- Global communities -- Home Rituals: food -- Dwelling, Locking, Grooming -- The Good Conversation -- Participatory culture -- Native to somewhere -- Familiarity, home, and community -- Chapter 6 Technologies of Friendship -- Fluid friendship -- The excitement of chance -- Missed opportunities -- Choice encounters: online profiling -- Homophily and compatibility -- Homophily and friendship -- Part-time friends -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7 The Avoidance of Intimacy: escaping interaction on-the-move -- Saturating the self -- Not my cup of tea: 'faulty' interactants -- Ideal interactions -- Goffman and forms of alienation -- External preoccupation -- Objects of preoccupation -- Blame mobility -- The offensiveness of preoccupation.

Interaction-consiousness -- Self-consiousness -- Conclusions -- Chapter 8 Sentiments of Mobility -- The origins of the sociology of emotions -- Emotional space -- New emotions -- Emotional technologies -- Objects of emotion -- Co-presence and emotion -- A culture of of interacting -- Anticipation: the first date affect -- The meeting: clicking with someone -- Gaining and offering -- Emotional currency -- Emotional encounters -- Mobility, self-understanding and personhood -- Emotions: artefacts of mobility -- Chapter 9 Intimate Mobilities: Consequences and Conclusions -- Ethnographic Appendix -- Bibliography -- Websites Used During Ethnography.