[ecrea] New Media, Sex, and Culture in the 21st Century

Now accepting submissions for a new special issue

Topic: New Media, Sex, and Culture in the 21st Century

Submission Deadline: April 15, 2010

Call: NmediaC invites submissions of research articles, essays, and 
web-based art for a special issue on New Media, Sex, and Culture in 
the 21st Century. Sex has a long history of being subjected to 
technologies of observation, regulation, enhancement, and 
representation. Certainly many of the discourses and technologies of 
the Internet have been preoccupied with it, even though the U.S. 
government and other groups have tried to make it harder for people 
to find sex online. One of the messages of the "cyberporn scare" of 
the mid to late 1990s in the U.S. was: It's here, and it's bad! But 
in the drawn-out process of letting everybody know about it, online 
porn became somewhat normalized. As van Doorn (2009) argues: 
"pornography has been involved in a 'mainstreaming' process over the 
past decade...simultaneously, the public discourse on sex and 
sexuality has grown exponentially." Foucault observes how sundry 
discourses of sexuality espouse a veil of silence and prudishness 
towards sex while at the same time positioning people to seek 
knowledge about it, observe it and talk about it. The rhetoric of the 
cyberporn scare asked society to wall up and hide pornography, but 
ended up forcing people to accept it and engage it more directly, 
whether it is to talk about it, joke about it, actively seek it, or 
actively avoid it. Web2.0 publishing tools and social media networks 
have made it easier for people to publically talk about sex and to 
publish their own sex online for anyone to see. Scholars and artists 
who explore any aspects of online pornography, NetPorn, the 
sexualization of Web2.0, sexual identities in postmodern society, and 
many other subject areas are invited to submit their work.

This special issue of NmediaC will be launched in collaboration with 
a juried art exhibit in Detroit, Michigan set for the summer of 2010. 
The articles and web-art from the special issue will be featured in the show.

Submission: Email submissions in Word, HTML or PDF to (jlillie /at/ loyola.edu)

The editor for this issue will be Jonathan Lillie of Loyola University.

Submissions and inquiries about the on-site art show in Detroit 
should be directed to Steve Coy at: (loucoy /at/ hotmail.com)

http://www.ibiblio.org/nmediac/

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