{"product_id":"hot-connections-isbn-9780262052061","title":"Hot Connections","description":"\u003cb\u003eA rethinking of “the social” in social media which includes the sexual.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat can we learn from including sexual platforms in definitions of social media and, by extension, from including sex in definitions of “the social” itself? \u003ci\u003eHot Connections\u003c\/i\u003e explores three locally operating sexual platforms: the Swedish Darkside, used by kink and BDSM practitioners; the Estonian Libertine Center, used mainly by nonmonogamous people; and the Finnish Alastonsuomi, used for a wide variety of nude and sexual displays of self-expression. What avenues do these platforms open for understanding the role that sexuality plays in people’s networked routines, social bonds, and forms of relating?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSexual social media affords freedom of worldmaking, belonging, and a right to sexually exist. While providing vital spaces for sexual self-expression—and indeed, hot connections—platform connectivity also involves friction as expectations, wishes, and desires clash and collide.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntervening in debates on the value of sexual social media, \u003ci\u003eHot Connections\u003c\/i\u003e discusses what it means to research sexuality when sexual data is understood as sensitive by default, what platform governance may look like if viewed from the margins, and how sex and intimacy are not the same thing in networked sexuality.\u003cb\u003eENDORSEMENTS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An intellectual vibrator—charged, pointed, and unafraid to go deep—\u003ci\u003eHot Connections\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading from iconic scholars of digital sexuality. It rewrites the rules on how we think about platforms, pleasure, and people.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Alexander Monea, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Digital Closet: How the Internet Became Straight\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Three talented researchers examine platforms too often overlooked—\u003ci\u003eHot Connections\u003c\/i\u003e corrects how we’ve long understood social media and reveals the shape sociality takes when sex isn’t moderated away.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Tarleton Gillespie, author of \u003ci\u003eCustodians of the Internet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eHot Connections\u003c\/i\u003e is a genuinely innovative study of what makes sexual social platforms ‘social.’ It offers deep insights into the evolving ethics of digital intimacies in a climate of data extraction and deplatforming of sexual cultures.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Kath Albury, author of \u003ci\u003eEveryday Data Cultures\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eData for Social Good: Non-Profit Sector Data Projects\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eJenny Sundén is Professor of Gender Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden. She is a coauthor of \u003ci\u003eWho’s Laughing Now? \u003c\/i\u003e(MIT Press) and \u003ci\u003eGender and Sexuality in Online Game Cultures\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSusanna Paasonen is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Turku, Finland. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eCarnal Resonance\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDependent, Distracted, Bored\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as a coauthor of \u003ci\u003eNSFW\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWho's Laughing Now?\u003c\/i\u003e (all MIT Press).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKatrin Tiidenberg is Professor of Participatory Culture at Tallinn University, Estonia. She is a coauthor of \u003ci\u003eTumblr\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSex and Social Media\u003c\/i\u003e and the author of \u003ci\u003eSelfies\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233237086437,"sku":"NP9780262052061","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262052061.jpg?v=1767729245","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/hot-connections-isbn-9780262052061","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}