SEXUALITY AND CYBERPORN: TOWARDS A NEW AGENDA FOR RESEARCH.
This article presents theoretical considerations based on cultural analysis approaches to studying pornography and sexuality as a means of starting to suggest a new agenda for cyberporn research. By bringing to the forefront concepts of how subjectively and sexuality are produced within the compute...
| Publicado en: | Sexuality & Culture Vol. 6; no. 2; pp. 25 - 48 |
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Springer Nature
Spring2002
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| Sumario: | This article presents theoretical considerations based on cultural analysis approaches to studying pornography and sexuality as a means of starting to suggest a new agenda for cyberporn research. By bringing to the forefront concepts of how subjectively and sexuality are produced within the computer Internet apparatus. I hope to diversify the focus in cyperporn research away from social science approaches and pre-Founcaultian assumptions of the subject which obscure understandings of new media and cyberporn use. Through a summary of visual culture studies and reception studies of pornography, I argue that cyberporn must be understood as contingent within the encoding and decoding processes and discourses of sexuality (Foucault) in which its is produced and consumed. My focus here is the home office/terminal as the site of reception/cyberporn use. While there is potential for a great variety of cultural analytic approaches to the study of cyberporn and how new media use influence sexuality, I end with specific suggestions for researching cyberporn reception in the home. |
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