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Porn Studies: an introduction

Attwood, Feona and Smith, Clarissa (2014) Porn Studies: an introduction. Porn Studies, 1 (1-2). pp. 1-6. ISSN 2326-8743

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Abstract

Academic journals don't usually grab popular media attention. However, the press release announcing the launch of Porn Studies attracted a great deal of interest across the media in summer 2013. On balance, the announcement of the journal's launch was largely positive. There were, of course, attempts to poke fun at the silliness of academic investigations of pornography in keeping with the perennial accusations of the superficiality of media studies, as well as more negative coverage questioning the need for a publication of this kind. How, then, to introduce this first issue of a journal that has already garnered more news interest prior to its launch than most academic publications receive over decades? We want to start out with a statement of why we think a journal in porn studies is needed and what we hope Porn Studies will become.

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Depositing User: Clarissa Smith

Identifiers

Item ID: 6101
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1080/23268743.2014.887308
ISSN: 2326-8743
URI: http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/6101
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23268743.2014.887308

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ORCID for Clarissa Smith: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-0046-8733

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Date Deposited: 18 Mar 2016 15:43
Last Modified: 17 Nov 2020 16:27

Contributors

Author: Clarissa Smith ORCID iD
Author: Feona Attwood

University Divisions

Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries
Institute of Arts and Creative Industries > Media and Cultural Studies Workstream

Subjects

Media > Film
Culture > History and Politics
Media > Media and Cultural Studies

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