ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on both new and old mobilities walking across a public square or surfing the Web from a portable digital device seeking to understand how these are implicated in reshaping the host-guest relationship at the heart of conceptualizations of and experiences of hospitality, especially in cities and cityspaces. It discusses selected moments of hospitality: mobile host-work in the context of commuting travel, mega-events and hospitality, everyday urban hospitableness, and techno-mobile hosting and guesting. The term mobile host' is used in discussions of mobile computing to describe a computational device which can remain networked while mobile, providing its user with an experience of seamless' connectivity, ignorant of the paths' and nodes' that are being switched between while on the move'. In particular, changing rhythms and temporalities of hospitality, the flickering moments, open up a reassessment of the ways in which hosting and guesting are articulated, performed, given and received.
