Publications
Gill, Nick, and Bialski, Paula. New friends in new places: Network formation during the migration process among Poles in the UK. Geoforum. 2011.
Bialski, Paula. Couchsurfing.com, czyli turystyka emocjonalna: Co zyskujemy, sypiając na cudzej kanapie. Kultura Polularna. 3/2006. (Warsaw: SWPS).
Bialski, Paula. Emotional Tourism: An interpretive study of online hospitality exchange systems as a new form of tourism. Hosp.Ex Net. June, 2006. (Online)
Books and Book Chapters
- Bialski, Paula. Becoming Intimately Mobile. (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2012).
- Bialski, Paula. Intimate Tourism: Enquete dans un reseau d’hospitalite. (Limoges: Solilange, 2008).
- (with Batorski, D.) From Online Familiarity to Offline Trust: How a Virtual Community Creates Familiarity and Trust between Strangers. Chapter for Social Computing and Virtual Communities, edited by Jim Ang and Panayiotis Zaphiris, 2009.
Conferences
- (with Batorski, D.) Trustworthiness in Networks, UK Social Networks Conference, University of Greenwich, July 18-20,2008
- Intimate Tourism: The process of verbal exchange in intimate spaces through the online hospitality network. Social Aspects of the Internet Conference, Warsaw, Poland. December, 2006.
- (with Batorski, D.) Trust Networks: Analyzing the Structure and Function of Trust. International Network of Social Network Analysis SUNBELT conference, Corfu, Greece. May, 2007. (INSNA 2007 Conference Poster).
- Intimate Tourism: Intensity, meaning, and offline friendship within the online hospitality network. General Online Research conference, Leipzig, Germany. February, 2007.
- Intimate Tourism: Changing the relationship between the tourist and the other through the online hospitality network. The 6th International Symposium on Aspects of Tourism: “Gazing, Glancing, Glimpsing: Tourists and Tourism in a Visual World. Eastbourne, England. June, 2007.
- No More Cold Researchers: Engagement and bias as characteristics of the modern interdisciplinary minds. Work in Progress: Research Spaces, Research Journeys, University of Warwick, December, 2007.
Education History
· Doctoral candidate in Sociology, Lancaster University (Present – 2010)
· Associate Teacher Programme, CELT, Lancaster University (May, 2008)
· Masters degree in Sociology, University of Warsaw, Poland (June 2007)
· Bachelor of Arts, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. (September, 2004)
My MA thesis can be read by clicking: HERE.
Hello,
your work seems really interesting. I am a student at the university in Belgium and I wondered whether it were possible to read your whole study on Emotional Tourism realised in 2006, or many reports of your conferences on this subject. The subject which interests to me particularly is the couchsurfing.
Sincerely yours
Greetings!
So nice to hear that my work found you. As an interest to you … the work on Intimate Tourism is now being published into a book in French! Assuming you speak French, you will be able to read through the book then! It is currently in production and will be published before Christmas.
Please email me at p.bialski@lancs.ac.uk if you have some more questions!
All the best!
Paula
Hi Paula
I just stumbled across your website (from your CS page). Your research looks amazing! I wish you well with it. Am I right in thinking your PhD was on CS? I would love to read it if you have anything published in English.
Best wishes
Jody
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November 21, 2010 at 9:33 am
Od pewnego czasu zastanawialem sie nad napisaniem podobnego postu. Nie wiem czy w sumie teraz to zrobie, bo wydaje mi sie ze chyba wyczerpales temat, dzieki za dobry post!