Embodied engagements with online pornography

Abstract

Information Science researchers have been relatively slow to consider the role of the body in understanding the relationship between people, information and technology. This panel will discuss how a consideration of the body can enrich information researchers' understanding of the complex relationship between people, information and technologies, old and new. Each panel member will briefly describe their own theoretical and methodological approach and how they have informed their understanding. This will be followed by a moderated discussion between the panel and audience members.

Information Sharing as Embodied Practice in a Context of Conversion to Islam

“…This perspective follows scholarship from outside of information studies, such as Erving Goffman's (1959) ideas about "self-presentation" (discussed in more detail below). It is therefore somewhat distinct from other perspectives on embodiment, such as sensory ethnography (Ingold 2011;Pink 2009), and information research that considers how senses such as touch and smell interact with cognition to enable a person to develop knowledge and literacies (Lloyd 2009;Lloyd 2010;Polkinghorne 2017), experience pleasure (Keilty 2016), and retain memories (Chen 2016).…”

What everybody knows: embodied information in serious leisure

“…The same argument extends to the seemingly disembodied experiences of web browsing. Keilty (2012Keilty ( , 2016 argues that people's activity related to searching and browsing online pornography, for example, is not only a cognitive experience, but is also sensual and embodied. Corporeal states such as arousal and affect are central to the activity, but others including surprise, disgust and irritation are also commonly experienced (Keilty, 2012).…”

“…As we try and develop a fuller account of information in leisure especially sports and the performing arts, this starts to seem inadequate. Some work has begun to explore the importance of the body in information behaviour (Keilty, 2012(Keilty, , 2016Lueg, 2012Lueg, , 2014Olsson, 20106, 20160). In particular, Lloyd (2009Lloyd ( , 2010Lloyd ( , 2014 in a number of works in the adjacent field of information literacy has started to theorise the "corporeal modality" of information.…”

Interviews that attend to emplacement: the “walk-through” method

“…Emplacement is distinct from the concept of embodiment, and has yet to be characterized in detail within LIS. Interest in embodiment is increasing within our discipline, with a growing number of researchers drawing attention to the role of the body in people's information and knowledge experiences (e.g., recently, Cox, Griffin, & Hartel, 2017;Keilty, 2016;Lueg, 2015;Olsson, 2016;Olsson & Lloyd, 2017). While embodiment brings needed focus to the body, emplacement centres on the role of place in people's identities and experiences.…”