Keeping it real: User-generated pornography, gender reification, and visual pleasure

Convergence

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 411-430

  Van Doorn, Niels ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

amateur; digital culture; digital screen; gender; internet; participatory media; pornography; reality; sexuality; user generated content; video sharing

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650553226     PISSN: 13548565     EISSN: 17487382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354856510375144     Document Type: Article

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