Showing papers by "Susanna Paasonen published in 2009"

Healthy Sex and Pop Porn: Pornography, Feminism and the Finnish Context:

Abstract: Objections to pornography as the commercialization of the intimate, as sexist or as generally harmful are voiced internationally, yet their investments and dynamics cannot be reduced to those expressed in the US in the wake of the sex wars Addressing Finnish traditions of porn regulation, consumption and research, as well as the Nordic discourses of ‘good sex’, this article argues for the centrality of local histories in making sense of pornography It conceptualizes pornography in terms of a dynamic nexus of actors, discourses, media economies, technologies and consumers that can only be studied through and within its specific articulations

Trouble with the Commercial: Internets Theorized and Used

Abstract: If a future archeologist were to reconstruct internet cultures of the 1990s on the basis of available research literature written during the decade in question, what shape would the resulting “internet” take? How would it correspond to the everyday uses of the internet, or public discourses concerning the medium? Taking these hypothetical questions as starting point, this article investigates some of the gaps between the Internets theorized and used since the 1990s. I argue that premises concerning the internet as a communication medium, as articulated in existing research literature have given rise to ideals and norms with a continuing legacy in internet research.