Netporn - Diy Web Culture and Sexual Politics

Informationen zum Autor By Katrien Jacobs Klappentext Netporn delves into the aesthetics and politics of sexuality in the era of do-it-yourself (DIY) Internet pornography. Katrien Jacobs, drawing on digital media theory and interviews with Web porn producers and consumers, offers an unprecedented critical analysis of Web culture as digital artistry and of the corresponding heightened government surveillance and censorship of the Internet. Jacobs shows how netporn images and services are important ways of redefining the 'network body' and indispensable ingredients of a maturing network society. Zusammenfassung Delves into the aesthetics and politics of sexuality in the era of do-it-yourself (DIY) Internet pornography. This work offers a critical analysis of Web culture as digital artistry and of the corresponding heightened government surveillance and censorship of the Internet. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 1 Netporn Browsing in Small Places and Other Spaces Chapter 3 2 Post or Perish: The New Media Schooling of the Amateur Pornographer Chapter 4 3 Porn Arousal and Gender Morphing in the Twilight Zone Chapter 5 4 Eros in Times of War: From Cross-Cultural Teasings to the Titillation of Torture Chapter 6 5 Post-Revolutionary Glimpses and Radical Silence: Netporn in Hong Kong and Mainland China Chapter 7 Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Katrien Jacobs, Jacobs Katrien
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.08.2007
• EAN: 9780742554320
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-5432-0
• No. of pages: 218
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Critical Media Studies (Paperb; Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Internet; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, Ethical issues and debates, Ethical Issues: Pornography & Obscenity, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Sexuality, Internet Guides & Online Services, Internet guides and online services, COMPUTERS / Internet / Web Services & APIs