Carnal Resonance

"Groundbreaking, provocative, insightful. If you want to understand the relationship between the internet and pornography, read this book."--Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Professor of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University "Finally, a comprehensive book that deals originally, intelligently (and non-hysterically) with on-line pornography."--Linda Williams, Film and Media, University of California, Berkeley "This is precise, original, and inventive work; scholarship of the highest order. Pornography is still a relatively neglected subject in online media studies, and even in 'Porn Studies,' few scholars focus in detail on pornography itself, rather than on its legal, political, or moral status. This book will be a very valuable and significant addition to the literature on pornography and on online media as a whole. It should appeal not only to scholars and students of pornography and Internet studies, but to those who engage with questions of representation and media more generally."--Feona Attwood, Professor of Sex, Communication, and Culture, Sheffield Hallam University, and author of Porn.com: Making Sense of Online Pornography "Susanna Paasonen has done an admirable job of introducing the productive notion of affective resonance into an area that has been dominated by a (deadlocked) pro and anti-debate. This is a significant departure from the media effects based work that is currently being advanced in this field. This book will be useful for advanced researchers, but also to undergraduates in the disciplines of media studies, screen studies, internet studies, cultural studies, critical sociology, sexuality studies, and gender studies."--Katherine Albury, Journalism and Media Research Centre, University of New South Wales, and coauthor of The Porn Report

Susanna Paasonen is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Turku, Finland, and the author of Carnal Resonance: Affect and Online Pornography and the coauthor of NSFW: Sex, Humor, and Risk in Social Media and Who's Laughing Now: Feminist Tactics in Social Media, all published by the MIT Press.