Tag Archives: CyberPorn

Sex in the syllabus

Time magazine is running a story entitled Sex in the Syllabus that includes quite a bit on my course “Cyberporn & Society.” It begins: With classwork like this, who needs to play? Undergraduates taking Cyberporn and Society at the State University of New York at Buffalo survey Internet porn sites. At New York University, assignments [...]
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she / partner / god

Cyberporn & Society is about all the hot-button topics you aren’t supposed to bring up in polite company: sex, politics, and religion, especially. Not surprising, then, that there are postings that tend to step on people’s toes, or go further than this. One student, for example, suggested that those who performed in “gay for pay” [...]
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Cyberporn & Society

I’ve had mixed reviews about blogging my classes here: some love it, some obviously find it distracting. I’d like to say that I’d stick completely to research, but my academic life is not so neatly compartmentalized, and I’m not sure the blog should be either. In order to keep things a bit more orderly, I’ll [...]
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Kindness of blog servers

Week before classes start. Everybody wants everything, now. I’m still working on things that needed to be done in 2005. And so, my blog server dies. No, not this one, the one that I set up for the students. And early next week, 400 students in my class, and many others in other classes are [...]
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Dogears and classroom ROI

Interesting brief article in Queue on IBM’s Dogear social bookmarking tool for the enterprise. It appears to be a system like del.icio.us, but with the ability to assign groups and to set up levels of privacy. They skip over the most interesting and difficult part: How to get folks to use it! They casually mention [...]
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UC @ Buffalo

Dennis Waskul, the author of net.seXXX dropped me an email to chat about my review in the most recent issue of New Media & Society. He was happy with the review, and gave me some of the back story on the book. As an aside, he said I should check out the published version when [...]
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Guardian Erototoxins

The Guardian had a silly article on Judith Reisman’s arguments that porn produces “erototoxins” and should be regulated as a dangerous drug. Today they printed a short note I wrote in response: Mark Pilkington (Far out, July 14) writes that Judith Reisman is concerned about “an addictive drug cocktail of testosterone, oxytocin, dopamine and serotonin [...]
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    • @JosephGalbo Really hard to categorize tweets based on keywords, just because there are so few of them in a tweet... 14 hrs ago
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    • @lrainie It's hard for me to do anything menacingly, and I'd try it for a classroom entrance, but I suspect the reference would be lost... 3 days ago
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