Getting It on Online - Cyberspace, Gay Male Sexuality, and Embodied Identity

Informationen zum Autor Campbell, John Edward Zusammenfassung Examines the online embodied experiences of gay men. At once scholarly and sensual, this unique book is the result of a three-year ethnographic study chronicling the activities on three distinct social scenes in the world of Internet Relay Chat - virtual spaces constructed by gay men for the erotic exploration of the male body. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Bodiless Exultation? Bodies in Cyberspace . . . Interrogating the Online Disembodiment Thesis Why Gay Men? Coming Attractions Chapter 2. Getting Online Of Virtual Tents on Cyberbeaches . . . A Brief History of IRC Negotiating the Insider/Outsider Duality in Cyberspace Conducting Fieldwork Through the Ether Virtual Ethnography, Real Subjects Chapter 3. Virtual Gay Bars Entering the Virtual Gay Bar General Profile of the Channels Walk Like a Man, Chat Like a Man . . . Who Else Would Go to a Gay Bar? Virtual Queer Havens: Anonymity, Safety, and Erotic Exploration Online Chatting in Private Virtual Havens As Real Communities Chapter 4. Singing the Body Cybernetic Semiotics of the (Cyber)Body To See Someone Online, Just Ask for His Stats Online Types: Bodybuilders, Musclebears, and Chubs in Cyberspace Erotic Bodies, Erotic Practices Cyborgs, Freaks, and Online Embodiment Chapter 5. Guts and Muscles and Bears, Oh My! The Gay Male Beauty Myth They Never Show: Reactions to Media Representations of the Male Body Subverting/Reconstructing Beauty Hierarchies in Cyberspace Don’t Hate Me Because I’m Beautiful . . . Chapter 6. Getting Off Online Who’s Native to Cyberspace Anyway? Emancipation from the Body? Sanctum Sanctorum in Cyberspace Appendix. IRC Interviewee Profile Notes Bibliography Index ...

Product details

• Authors: John Edward Campbell, John Edward/ Gross Campbell, Campbell John Edward
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.05.2004
• EAN: 9781560234319
• ISBN: 978-1-56023-431-9
• No. of pages: 242
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Hardware; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Book trade, library system; Gay & Lesbian studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, Internet Guides & Online Services, Internet guides and online services, COMPUTERS / Internet / Web Services & APIs, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics, IT, Internet and electronic resources in libraries, IT, Internet & electronic resources in libraries