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Queer theory, cyber-ethnographies and researching online sex environments

Ashford, Chris (2009) Queer theory, cyber-ethnographies and researching online sex environments. Information & Communications Technology Law, 18 (3). pp. 297-314. ISSN 1360-0834

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Abstract

Both the act and the commission of the act of sex have been transformed by technology. This has in turn led to emerging research that seeks to consider online research methods and methodologies that take account of the new medium, with a number of studies examining specific groups and the behaviour of those groups from a socio-legal perspective. This paper will seek to consider the application of queer theory to researching so-called ‘virtual’ or online sex groups. It will examine how the virtual spaces, and the researchers who survey them, are constituted. The ethical and practical issues that emerge in surveying these groups from a queer theory perspective will also be explored.

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Item ID: 1073
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1080/13600830903424734
ISSN: 1360-0834
URI: http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/1073
Official URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/cict20?open=18#vol_...

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Date Deposited: 03 Nov 2011 14:40
Last Modified: 02 May 2023 10:56

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Author: Chris Ashford

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Faculty of Business, Law and Tourism > School of Law
Faculty of Business, Law and Tourism > Sunderland Law School

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Law > Law

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