Modern love: young people, sex relationships and social media
This book challenges received mainstream and scholarly ideas about how and why child abuse occurs... more This book challenges received mainstream and scholarly ideas about how and why child abuse occurs and offers fresh ideas about understanding how we can enhance young people's agency and can make a difference to their lives by ensuring they ...
From a study of entertainment history it is possible to identify a number of characteristics in t... more From a study of entertainment history it is possible to identify a number of characteristics in the aesthetic system of entertainment. Good entertainment is vulgar. It has a story. Seriality is valued, as is adaptation. Good entertainment has a happy ending. It is interactive, fast, loud and spectacular. It provokes a strong emotional response in the consumer. And it is fun. I discuss all of these points in detail below.
‘Community standards’ is an important concept in the regulation of pornography in the offline wor... more ‘Community standards’ is an important concept in the regulation of pornography in the offline world but it translates awkwardly to an online pornosphere where communities are not geographically bound and can exist in reference to a sexual lifestyle, orientation or fetishism. Nevertheless we find substantial ‘community’ agreement across most liberal democracies in favour of the prohibition of non-consensual sexual materials, especially child sexual abuse materials. However in relation to materials where various communities disagree about their acceptability – for example, BDSM – we suggest that government attempts to prevent access always fail. Better approaches are improved education and signposting.
This chapter reports on eleven interviews with Pro-Am archivists of Australian television which a... more This chapter reports on eleven interviews with Pro-Am archivists of Australian television which aimed to find out how they decide what materials are important enough to archive. Interviewees mostly choose to collect materials in which they have a personal interest. But they are also aware of the relationship between their own favourites and wider accounts of Australian television history, and negotiate between these two positions. Most interviewees acknowledged Australian television’s links with British and American programming, but also felt that Australian television is distinctive. They argued that Australian television history is ignored in a way that isn’t true for the UK or the US. Several also argued that Australian television has had a ‘naïve’ nature that has allowed it to be more experimental.
Who watches pornography in Australia? If you listen to public debates about the genre the answer ... more Who watches pornography in Australia? If you listen to public debates about the genre the answer is clear – it’s children. Children are accessing pornography on smartphones (Murray and Tin 2011). Children are taking ‘lewd’ photographs of themselves, creating their own pornography (Nelligan and Etheridge 2011). Indigenous Australian children must be protected by banning pornography (the Age 2011). Pornographic magazines are placed where children can see them (O'Rourke 2011). Exposure to pornography is damaging children (Sundstrom 2011). The Australian Government insists that the Internet must be filtered to protect children from pornography (Collerton 2010). And if indeed any adults are watching pornography in Australia, then it’s child pornography (MacDonald 2011; Ralston and Howden 2011). In story after story, public debate about pornography focuses on children as its audience. There is no suggestion that children are numerically the largest audience of pornography in Australia. But emphatically the suggestion is that children are the most important audience to be taken into account when thinking about the genre.
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In story after story, public debate about pornography focuses on children as its audience. There is no suggestion that children are numerically the largest audience of pornography in Australia. But emphatically the suggestion is that children are the most important audience to be taken into account when thinking about the genre.