‘Extreme pornography’ and the contested spaces of virtual citizenship

The diverse economies of online pornography: From paranoid readings to post-capitalist futures

“…not-for-profit or pirated peer-to-peer pornography). By paying attention to the diverse economies of online pornography we could explore whether some mainstream pornography producers might in fact support certain forms of government regulation (see Stardust, 2014;Wilkinson, 2011). Thus a diverse economies approach to pornography allows us to examine whether regulation may at times work in the interests of capital and the mainstream porn industry, not against (Maddison, 2004(Maddison, , 2010.…”

Sexualities and gendered intersectionalities

“…Their attention to the prosaic activities of the local state adds important new perspectives to understanding the regulation of homosexuality in the USA in the mid-twentieth century. The regulation of sexuality and desire was central to Eleanor Wilkinson's (2011) work on UK legislation which attempted to intervene in the private consumption of 'extreme pornography'. This paper built upon earlier geographical theorizations of sexual citizenship and updated the concept to account for the changing regulation of sexuality online.…”

Beyond the Screen: Methods for Investigating Geographies of Life ‘Online’

“…Many of the forms of connectivity afforded by networked technologies are expressed in complex ‘hybrid’ networks of socio‐spatial relations, for example, using text messaging (Thompson and Cupples ) or online video sites such as YouTube (Longhurst ; Meek ) . Equally, the extraordinary access to information, media and online activities sometimes deemed undesirable has prompted civic and governmental interventions (Graham and Shaw ; Wilkinson ).…”