Nettersexuality: The Impact of Internet Pornography on Gay Male Sexual Expression and Identity

Poole, Jay; Milligan, Ryan O.

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“…In fact, many studies examined the possible negative impact of the internet. For example, studies of internet and pornography (see Poole & Milligan, 2018;Yang, 2016) and internet gambling (see Pontes & Griffiths, 2014) emerged, among other topics.…”

Section: The Social Construction Of "Internet" and "Lan House" Among The Brazilian Youth User Of Lan Houses And Its Potential To Foster Amentioning

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The Lan House Phenomenon: Exploring the Uses and Symbolic Functions of the Internet Among the Low-Income Brazilian Youth

Trammel¹

2019

Studies in Media and Communications

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Brazil has one of the largest millennial populations in the world and offers a key case study of an important slice of time: the adolescence of millennials in the 2000s. This case study offers important insight into a unique Brazilian dynamic, the LAN house phenomenon: a Brazilian solution to spreading digital technologies to the economically disadvantaged. This chapter explores the social roles and functions LAN houses played to the Brazilian youth, ages 12-15, in the 2000s, when they were first introduced in Brazil. Three research questions guided this investigation. RQ1. What were the main uses and gratifications of LAN house use among the youth in Brazil in the early 2000s? RQ2. What was the social construction of "Internet" and "LAN house" among the Brazilian user of LAN houses and its potential to foster advancement? RQ3. What key roles do LAN houses play today?Two distinct methods of the study were employed: a survey and textual analysis. The results showed that Brazilian youth used the LAN houses to check Orkut (a social network site), e-mails and the Microsoft System Network (MSN chat),

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Section: The Social Construction Of "Internet" and "Lan House" Among The Brazilian Youth User Of Lan Houses And Its Potential To Foster Amentioning

confidence: 99%