[Commlist] New book: Hot Connections (OA)

The new book with Jenny Sundén and Katrin Tiidenberg, Hot Connections: 
Why Sexual Platforms Matter, is just out with MIT Press on OA at 
https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/6108/Hot-ConnectionsWhy-Sexual-Platforms-Matter

The description goes like this:

What can we learn from including sexual platforms in definitions of 
social media and, by extension, from including sex in definitions of 
“the social” itself? Hot Connections explores three locally operating 
sexual platforms: the Swedish Darkside, used by kink and BDSM 
practitioners; the Estonian Libertine Center, used mainly by 
nonmonogamous people; and the Finnish Alastonsuomi, used for a wide 
variety of nude and sexual displays of self-expression. What avenues do 
these platforms open for understanding the role that sexuality plays in 
people’s networked routines, social bonds, and forms of relating?

Sexual social media affords freedom of worldmaking, belonging, and a 
right to sexually exist. While providing vital spaces for sexual 
self-expression—and indeed, hot connections—platform connectivity also 
involves friction as expectations, wishes, and desires clash and collide.

Intervening in debates on the value of sexual social media, Hot 
Connections discusses what it means to research sexuality when sexual 
data is understood as sensitive by default, what platform governance may 
look like if viewed from the margins, and how sex and intimacy are not 
the same thing in networked sexuality.


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