Online Pornography: Ubiquitous and Effaced

The Handbook of Internet Studies

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 424-439

  Paasonen, Susanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Centrality of pornography in terms of Internet history; Content description, interpretation values, premises and personal investments; Internet, and web distribution cultural visibility and accessibility of pornography; Netporn and Alt Porn online porn, unprecedented visibility of sexual subcultures; Online pornography ubiquitous and effaced; Plethora of available online pornographies any stance on porn being backed up; Pornography, business on a global scale people accessing porn from servers around the world; Pornography, technology and moral panics; Pornography, tending to be generic for a popular genre; Web distribution, increasing visibility of marginal pornographies

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EID: 84886033905     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444314861.ch20     Document Type: Chapter

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