Onscenity: Sex, Commerce, Media and Technology in Contemporary Society

这个研究网络汇集了国际专家，以回应性在商业、文化和日常生活中的新可见性或“色情”。它回应了公众对一系列问题的关注，包括色情内容的新可及性，色情内容的主流化和正常化，性的商业化，互联网在传播“极端”图像中的作用，以及通常由年轻人用于性目的的通信技术。它得到了该领域领先学者的支持，并将吸引来自欧洲、美国、香港和澳大利亚的学者。该网络的目的是调查性与我们生活中的商业、媒体和新技术日益交织在一起的方式。我们生活在一个被媒体包围的不断变化的环境中，我们对技术的使用正在改变我们的生活方式，并提供新的机会和新的风险。性是我们身份和人际关系体验的核心，它越来越成为消费文化生活方式和休闲活动的一部分，在这种文化中，许多形式的商业性行为经历了前所未有的全球增长。媒体和通信技术被广泛用作关于性的信息资源，用于获取色情和其他性娱乐材料，并越来越多地用于时尚自制的性表现和在虚拟环境中体验新型的性接触。现在有必要就性、商业、媒体和技术之间的关系制定新的方法和研究问题，并需要进行新的研究。我们需要制定一个连贯和信息灵通的工作体系，以支持世界各地的公共、政策和立法辩论。利用来自世界各地的顶尖学者的工作成果，该网络通过绘制性行为的转变景观和协调新一波的研究，为这些领域的发展做出了贡献。

This research network draws together international experts in order to respond to the new visibility or 'onscenity' of sex in commerce, culture and everyday life. It responds to public concerns about a range of issues including the new accessibility of pornography, the mainstreaming and normalization of sexually explicit representation, the commercialization of sex, the role of the internet in circulating 'extreme' images, and the use of communication technologies, often by young people, for sexual purposes. It is supported by leading academics in the field and will draw together scholars from Europe, the US, Hong Kong and Australia. The aim of the network is to investigate the ways in which sex is increasingly intertwined with commerce, the media and new technology in our lives. We live in a changing landscape surrounded by media, where our use of technologies is changing the way we live and offering new opportunities and new risks. Sex is presented as central to our experiences of identity and relationships, and it is increasingly a part of the lifestyle and leisure practices of a consumer culture where many forms of commercial sex have experienced unprecedented and global growth. Media and communication technologies are widely used as information resources about sex, to access pornography and other sex-entertainment materials, and increasingly to fashion home made sexual representations and experience new types of sexual encounter in virtual environments. It is now necessary to develop new approaches and research questions about the relationship between sex, commerce, media and technology and new research is needed. We need to develop a coherent and well-informed body of work that can underpin public, policy and legislative debates around the world. Drawing on the work of leading scholars from around the world, the network contributes to the development of these by mapping a transformed landscape of sexual practices and by co-ordinating a new wave of research.