From the Boardroom to the Bedroom: Sexual Ecologies in the Algorithmic Age

Autor: Bowen, Bernadette
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
Předmět:
Communication
American Studies
Bioinformatics
Education
Economic History
Ethnic Studies
Gender Studies
Gender
Health Education
Higher Education
Individual and Family Studies
Information Technology
Information Systems
Mass Communications
Marketing
Mass Media
Medical Ethics
Middle School Education
Modern History
Organizational Behavior
Personal Relationships
Philosophy
Philosophy of Science
Public Health
Public Health Education
Rhetoric
Science Education
Secondary Education
Social Research
Social Structure
Sociology
Systematic
Systems Design
Technical Communication
Technology
Web Studies
Womens Studies
Adult Education
American History
Black Studies
critical media ecology
mechanization
humanization
feminist epistemologies
histography
critical feminist rhetoric
critical discourse analysis
media ecology
advertising
TikTok
commodification
femvertising
anthropomorphism
algorithmic age
identity studies
gender and sexuality studies
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Popis: This project examined traditional gendered discourses surrounding the ends and means of sexuality, the emerging role of digital sexual technologies in purported sexual empowerment, and the socio-material aspects which revolve around these technologies, sexual medias, and sexual discourses. Combining critical feminist insights with media ecology, this project explored happenings within the sociosexually violent pre- and present-COVID-19 United States ecology, documenting novel and rigorous contributions in our increasingly algorithmic world. This study of the U.S. context critiques foundational constructs created by Enlightenment decisionmakers who rationalized colonial rhetorics and logics built into each preceding iteration of capitalisms from industrialism into neoliberalism since national origin. As such, it extends critiques of mechanistic models of the human body and sexual communications and situates them within the vastly uncriminalized sexual violences, as well as insufficient sexual education standards. Theoretically, I argue that a mechanization of humans has occurred, been pushed to its extreme, and is flipping into a humanization of objects. To demonstrate this, I critical feminist rhetorically analyzed 75 biomimetic sextech advertisements from the brand Lora DiCarlo, contextualizing them in salient discourses within 428 present-COVID-19 TikTok videos, investigating: “What rhetorical themes occur within advertisements for biomimetic sexual technologies marketed to vulva-havers in the late-stage present-COVID-19 neoliberal U.S. landscape?” “How have biomimetic sexual technologies marketed to vulva-havers effected how their sexual experiences are created and maintained in the sociosexual U.S. landscape?” and “How are biomimetic sextech changing vulva-havers sexual sense-making, experiences, and relations within the sexually violent late-stage capitalist present-COVID-19 U.S. landscape?” Using a feminist eye, this brings to media ecology a contextualization of biomimetic sextech devices marketed to vulva-havers, situating their socio-political and cultural nuances in conversation with otherwise taken for granted biological components of cisnormative and heteronormative life, among other relevant characteristics. Ergo, this project debuts a brand new liberatory embodied research paradigm.
Databáze: Networked Digital Library of Theses & Dissertations
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