Netporn

Katrien Jacobs is assistant professor in new media at City University of Hong Kong. She has lectured widely on gender, sexuality, new media art, globalization, and censorship. She is the author of Libi_doc: Journeys in the Performance of Sex Art.

Katrien Jacobs's Netporn is an eyewitness account of sex life on the new digital frontier and an analytical report on how sensual imagination and activity is changing our world. From personal investigation and interviews with Internet porn producers and consumers, Jacobs is able to mark the evolving contradictions of an area where sex as freedom and expression runs up against commercial exploitation and government censorship. This up-to-date investigation makes concrete the sometimes vague and hyperbolic discussions of digital networking, and thus it carries on a substantial description of the interactive exchange between new media technologies and the new social relations, behaviors, and body functions. Thoughtful, sober, and adventurous, this is THE landmark study of new media for our time.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 1 Netporn Browsing in Small Places and Other SpacesChapter 3 2 Post or Perish: The New Media Schooling of the Amateur PornographerChapter 4 3 Porn Arousal and Gender Morphing in the Twilight ZoneChapter 5 4 Eros in Times of War: From Cross-Cultural Teasings to the Titillation of TortureChapter 6 5 Post-Revolutionary Glimpses and Radical Silence: Netporn in Hong Kong and Mainland ChinaChapter 7 Conclusion