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	Podcast:		Thinking Allowed
	Episode:		Couchsurfing - Trauma Advocacy
	Category:		Religion & Spirituality
	Duration:		00:28:09
	Publish Date:		2012-11-07 10:50:00
	Description:		Ever in need of a new way to travel? 'Couchsurfing', in the form of online social networking, allows users to travel with and stay at the homes of fellow users. It's just one example of how the internet aids face to face intimacy - sometimes amongst strangers. Paula Bialski talks to Laurie Taylor about her book 'Becoming Intimately Mobile' . Based on five years of ethnographic research amongst coach surfers and online hitchhiking website users, it documents new forms of human hospitality and connection. Also, trauma advocates in Croatia. Vanessa Pupavac and Ben Shephard reflect on the growth of compensation schemes for victims of civil war. Producer:Jayne Egerton.
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