[aha] Pornoscapes. How the porn creativity spreads the Web 2.0 out.

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Pornoscapes. How the porn creativity spreads the Web 2.0 out.
Seminar by Gaia Novati (IT/DE). Moderated by Tatiana Bazzichelli.

Lille Auditorium, IT-Huset, Åbogade 35, Aarhus University
Friday, April 24, 14.00-16.00.
http://www.imv.au.dk/

User generated content (UGC) or perhaps more correct Consumer generated 
content (CGC) will be the starting point for analyzing and reflecting on 
how interaction with and within the Internet is developing nowadays.
In the Web 2.0 the end consumer is at ease, thanks to a structure that 
involves, or even more envelops, him/her. The consumer owns all the 
useful instruments to make him/her a creator, and can reach the ability 
to build up his/her own subculture by him/herself. The technological 
advance widely and quickly achieved in all 2.0 communities makes the 
online sex an enviable forerunner of. The web-cam was already used when 
the first steps in Facebook were made.
The market and consumption of porn becomes an avant-garde when connected 
with the development of technologies and new media: it is a privileged 
prospective from which to analyze the World Wide Web and social 
interrelationships. Moreover the enlargement of the web community shows 
a potential rise of sexscapes and desires:  any singular reflection on 
identity finds in the web an own dis-location.
Which Pornoscapes does the Net show nowadays? Are there any real 
alternatives to the porn industryís billions of exploited and crude 
images crashing endlessly our mind?  Looking at the structure of the 
Internet today, can we still find free zones or critical tools? Are the 
concepts of sharing and open source, with their roots in pre 2.0 
development and thought, still part of a common cultural heritage, and 
consequently, part of an alternative pornography?

Modules
1) Introduction. Short explanation of gender theories, from the 
cyberfeminist theories to Queer-studies: Beatriz Preciado and the 
post-porn prospective.
2) Analysis of the current use and abuse of media in the construction of 
mass-porn.
3) An alternative prospective: examples showing how different networks 
or communities develop different sexscapes: porn artivism and porn 
activism.

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