[Commlist] CFP: Por(n), Sex + [Big] Data

                            Call for Papers

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                        *  Por(n), Sex^2 + [Big] Data*
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                               Porn Studies Journal

                            Guest edited by Rebecca Saunders


Deadline for Abstract Submissions of 500 words: 30^th October 2020

Deadline for finished articles: 8^th March 2021

Please send your abstracts and short bio to (r.i.saunders2 /at/ hud.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(r.i.saunders2 /at/ hud.ac.uk)>

This special issue of Porn Studies considers the important relationship 
between big data and contemporary pornography and sex media. The 
cultural and political impact of big data, as well as the ethical 
implications of its collection and commodification, have been urgently 
researched within the fields of digital humanities, science and 
technology studies and digital sociology. This special issue turns these 
areas of inquiry, crucially, towards the analysis and understanding of 
contemporary sexuality and gender. Consuming pornography online and 
engaging with broader pornified media such as smart sex toys and dating 
apps generate data about how people desire, their socio-sexual 
interactions and the physiology of pleasure. As sexual culture in the 
digital North becomes thoroughly integrated with digital technologies 
and interfaces, the ethics, economics and politics of big data become 
central to examining the power relations and biopolitics of the sexual 
body in the twenty-first century.

This special issue invites academics, producers, activists and educators 
to explore the economic, cultural and political implications of the 
relationship between big data, pornography and sex tech. Important areas 
of inquiry include but are not limited to:

  * The cultural impact and economic uses of data gathering through
    online porn consumption
  * MindGeek and Pornhub Insights
  * Dating applications
  * Crip sex and big data
  * Smart sex toys
  * AI sex robots
  * The use of algorithms in sex tech
  * New materialism and embodiment
  * The datafied sexual self
  * Sexual self-care and health
  * Racialised components of big data collection in sexual technologies

Please send abstracts of up to 500 words and a short biographical note 
to (r.i.saunders2 /at/ hud.ac.uk) <mailto:(rebecca.i.saunders2 /at/ hud.ac.uk)> by 
30^th October 2020. Finished articles should be between 5,000 and 8,000 
words and are due on the 8^th of March, 2021.


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