Airbnb is emblematic of a set of business practices commonly known as ‘the sharing economy’. It is a disruptive business model of homestay accommodation that has exploited conditions of growing precarity of work since 2008. Work precarity is particularly evident in regional tourist areas in New Zealand, which historically experience seasonal, part-time work and low wages. Airbnb draws specifically on the rhetoric of micro-entrepreneurism, with focus on individual freedom and choice: appealing concepts for those experiencing precarity. This article challenges the rhetoric of Airbnb and investigates notions of home, authenticity and hospitality that are reconceptualized under a specific regime of digital biopolitics. Drawing on research conducted in four regional tourist towns in New Zealand this article analyses the biopolitical interpellations that impact hosts’ subjectivities as entities in motion and considers the ways that the rationalities of Airbnb’s algorithms modulate the embodied behaviours of its hosts.

Airbnb象征着一系列商业惯例，通常被称为“共享经济”。这是一种破坏性的寄宿家庭经营模式，自2008年以来就利用了工作不稳定的条件。在过去，新西兰的区域旅游区经历了季节性，兼职工作和低工资，工作不稳定尤其明显。Airbnb特别借鉴了微型企业家主义的言论，着重于个人的自由和选择：对于那些pre可危的人而言颇具吸​​引力的概念。本文对Airbnb的言论提出了挑战，并研究了在数字生物政治的特定制度下重新概念化的家庭，真实性和款待的概念。