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[IAMCR] call for papers: Porn Cultures: Regulation, Political
Economy and Technology
The Centre for International Communication Research (CICR
http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/sub1.cfm?pbcrumb=cicr) the Media Industries
Research Centre (MIRC http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/sub1.cfm?pbcrumb=MIRC ) and the Institute of http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/ Communications Studies at the
University of Leeds are inviting you to a conference on Porn Cultures: Regulation, Political Economy, and Technology
Monday 15th and Tuesday 16th of June in Leeds.
The pornography industry is an under-researched culture industry. Its links
to mainstream media and to the sex industry are intensifying. The
mainstreaming of certain aspects of the industry in global popular culture
raises questions about the adequacy, efficiency or appropriateness of
existing policy. Other aspects of the industry, such as its labour
conditions, its geographies of production and consumption practices
associated with it have largely fallen under the radar of scholarly
analysis, while much more attention has been paid to the potential for
emancipatory uses of aspects of sexually explicit cultural expression.
Meanwhile, technological aspects of the industry's operation are challenging
our assumptions about 'choice' 'privacy' and 'freedom'. With the
proliferation of the pornographic product embedded in everyday life now more
than ever before existing and new questions require our urgent attention
about human rights, migrants, workers and communication rights, media
literacy, media ecology and the public sphere, global production and
consumption cultures as well as underlying politics of gender, class and
'race'.
This conference aims to bring together scholars, policymakers and activists
to discuss the global pornography complex. It is the second of two
conferences organised within the British Academy funded project
Socialisation of the global sexually explicit imagery: challenges to
regulation and research. The project has given birth to an international
Porn Cultures and Policy Network, which involves scholars from a number of countries, engaged in comparative studies with an emphasis on policy. We are inviting colleagues to take part in this debate and colleagues who would be interested in working with the existing network to join us. Information on this and our first conference can be found on http://sgsei.wordpress.com.
Please send your 200 word abstract, along with a 50-word bio and contact
details to Steven McDermott (cssem@leeds.ac.uk, cssem@leeds.ac.uk) by March 15th or
earlier.
There will be a small fee to cover catering and room facilities. Please let
us know if you require an earlier decision regarding your paper. If you
contact Katharine Sarikakis (K.Sarikakis@leeds.ac.uk, K.Sarikakis@leeds.ac.uk ).
Speakers include
http://www.cmns.sfu.ca/people/faculty/beale_a/ Prof Alison Beale
Co-Director, Centre for Policy Studies on Culture and Communities,
Simon Fraser University Vancouver Julie Bindel.
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