Mediated intimacies: bodies, technologies and relationships

Attwood, Feona; Hakim, Jamie; Winch, Alison

doi:10.1080/09589236.2017.1297888

Cited by 60 publications

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“…In both expanding and problematising existing approaches to sexting risk as a primarily negative phenomenon, this article makes a unique contribution to the literature on sexting and risk by illustrating how sexting risk can operate as a source in the building of emotionally close heterosexual relations. Moreover, in introducing an innovative perspective on sexting risk as a resource for intimacy, this article will make a significant contribution to the field of mediated intimacy research (Attwood et al, 2017;Barker et al, 2018;Chambers, 2013) by showing how digital mediation informs how intimacy is both practised and perceived.…”

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confidence: 99%

Hetero-sexting as mediated intimacy work: ‘Putting something on the line’

Amundsen

2020

New Media & Society

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This article is concerned with women’s digitally mediated practices of creating and sending private sexual images to men, here referred to as ‘hetero-sexting’. Drawing on material from individual interviews with adult British women about their experiences of hetero-sexting, the article develops an understanding of women’s hetero-sexting practices as a form of female-conducted ‘mediated intimacy work’, constituted by a constant negotiation of female risk taking and male trustworthiness. In doing so, it shows how the women relied on and made active use of the sexting-related risk of digital image abuse as a means to establish and enhance trust and, as such, stress the significance of their hetero-sexting activities as performances of intimacy. Sexting-induced vulnerability was therefore both drawn on and dismissed within the very same accounts of hetero-sexting, as it was applied as a means to perform a new form of normative femininity, namely that of the agentic intimacy worker.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hetero-sexting as mediated intimacy work: ‘Putting something on the line’

Amundsen

2020

New Media & Society

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“…Finally, by rejecting an exposure and effects model, it becomes possible to situate porn consumption in the broader context of new mediated intimacies, as a site for developing identities, relationships, peer groups, communities and other personal connections, and as a space for intimacies that are more closely focused on the body, on physicality, intensity, affect, interior life and the realm of imagination (see Attwood et al, 2017).…”

Section: Porn Consumption Sex and Sexualitymentioning

confidence: 99%

‘I’m just curious and still exploring myself’: Young people and pornography

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Barker

2018

New Media & Society

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Young people's encounters with sexual media are the subject of intense concern, but the research underpinning policy debate and public discussion rarely pays attention to the complexity of these. In this article, we show how encounters with pornography are increasingly presented as matters of health and well-being, but often from a standpoint of 'exposure and effects' that offers little in the way of understanding the significance of pornography in people's lives. We consider what our recent research on porn consumption suggests about young people's encounters and engagements with pornography -focusing on porn as an 'outlet', the development of porn tastes and the relation of porn to young people's developing sex lives and imaginations. We argue that it is productive to understand pornography as a site for developing sexual identities and relationships, as a form of sexual leisure and play, and in relation to the broader emergence of mediated intimacies.

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“…These technologies produce unprecedented possibilities for imagining the augmentation of human sexual bodies. This is occurring in the context of advances in biodigitally-enabled apps and global communication networks that facilitate intimate human connection over vast distances (Attwood, Hakim, & Winch, 2017;Renold & Ringrose, 2017). The papers in this collection explore themes of sex, health, bodies and risk in relation to new technologies.…”

Section: New Technologies Are Changing Sex Intimacy and Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%