Netporn: DIY Web Culture and Sexual Politics

by Katrien Jacobs

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742554325
• ISBN13: 9780742554320
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.2"