Saturday, March 21, 2009

The Porn Identity

This is an interesting discussion about gender, pornography, and life on the Internet.
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2 comments:

  1. ashley b.6:16 PM

    I thought this was really interesting. I especially liked what was said at the end: "this idea of a cyber community which is ultimately a partial community because at the end of the day we cherry pick our connections and don’t have any real responsibilities to each other online. So it becomes disembodied entertainment — other people’s lives, our own lives, all of it flowing together in a kind of pretense of revelation and caring and community."

    I've often thought this way about online "communities"--I thought this statement was well-put, and an important point to make.

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  2. Jen Moore9:53 AM

    I'd be leery of overgeneralizing a lot of the comments made in that article. (For one thing, I really don't think you can ever generalize from anything involving porn.) There's a broad range of online communities, just like there are offline; some groups of people you get closer to than others.

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