Labors of love: Netporn, web 2.0 and the meanings of amateurism

New Media and Society

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1297-1312

  Paasonen, Susanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

alt porn; amateurism; immaterial labor; netporn; online pornography; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650295443     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444810362853     Document Type: Article

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