Porn and the mediasphere


Autoria(s): Burgess, Jean; King, Andrew S.
Data(s)

2004

Resumo

The history of public discourse (and in many cases, academic publishing) on pornography is, notoriously, largely polemical and polarised. There is perhaps no other media form that has been so relentlessly the centre of what boils down to little more than arguments “for” or “against”; most famously, on the basis of the oppression, dominance or liberation of sexual subjectivities. These polarised debates leave much conceptual space for researchers to explore: discussions of pornography often lack specificity (when speaking of porn, what exactly do we mean? Which genre? Which markets?); assumptions (eg. about exactly how the sexualised “white male body” functions culturally, or what the “uses” of porn actually might be) can be buried; and empirical opportunities (how porn as media industry connects to innovation and the rest of the mediasphere) are missed. In this issue, we have tried to create and populate such a space, not only for the rethinking of some of our core assumptions about pornography, but also for the treatment of pornography as a bona fide, even while contested and problematic, segment of the media and cultural industries, linked economically and symbolically to other media forms.

Identificador

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/47133/

Publicador

M/C Journal

Relação

http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0410/00_editorial.php

Burgess, Jean & King, Andrew S. (2004) Porn and the mediasphere. M/C Journal, 7(4).

Fonte

ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation; Creative Industries Faculty; Film & Television; Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation; Journalism, Media & Communication

Palavras-Chave #200100 COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA STUDIES #200212 Screen and Media Culture #pornography #media #sexual identity #sexuality #cultural studies
Tipo

Journal Article