Netporn: DIY Web Culture and Sexual Politics

by Katrien Jacobs

Netporn delves into the aesthetics and politics of sexuality in the era of do-it-yourself (DIY) Internet pornography. Katrien Jacobs, drawing on digital media theory and interviews with Web porn producers and consumers, offers an unprecedented critical analysis of Web culture as digital artistry and of the corresponding heightened government surveillance and censorship of the Internet. Netporn features Web users who question the goals of global commercial porn industries-whether they are engaged in Usenet fringes, video blogging, peer-to-peer distribution, porn art collectives, or decadent amateurism. Emphasizing gender and cultural differences, Jacobs shows how the creative uses of netporn images and services are important ways of exploring or redefining the "network body" and indispensable ingredients of a maturing network society.

218 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2007

Reviews

[Biju P.R.]

I read it from a library. awesome book. Do It Yourself is the new buzz word around the corner that gives leeway for amateurs to be publishers, writers, speakers, inventors and what not everything which were previously impossible in an environment where everything from coffin to rocket science were filtered according to a community standard. Here comes pornography and the east at which it is produced, circulated and consumed. of course, in the changed scenario, porn and DIY will be cobbled together to form what may be the author of this book calls netporn- a metaphor author used to refer to the new politics of pornography and embedded pornographic practices. yes pornography is a rhetoric. here is an example. it is benchmark book to learn more about how porn affect our life and how interne script your life.