I switched two folks (pushed them back), because I didn’t want anyone to have to present on the day the final paper was due, so please check the schedule to see when you are presenting:

April 10th: Alex

April 17th: Gwen, Andrew A.

April 24th: Tifani, Nedda, Salvatore, and Andrew R.

May 1st: Abby, Rebecca, Emeric, and Michelle

In response to the following readings:

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  • Garet Branwyn, “Compu-Sex: Erotica for Cybernauts” (CR p. 396).
  • Randall Woodland, “Queer Spaces, Modem Boys and Pagan Statues: Gay Lesbian Identity and the Construction of Cyberspace,” (CR 416)
• Susan Stryker, “Transsexuality: The Postmodern Body And/As Technology,” (CR 588).
• Bonnie Ruberg, “Cyberporn Sells in Virtual World,” Wired, 12.19.05

Consider some of the following questions (though feel to discuss any issue that draws your attention that I do not mention below):

1. How is sexuality embodied and performed in cyberspace?
2. Thinking back to discussions of the body and the cyber/cyborg body, in what ways does the performance of sexuality online either inform or reflect our perceptions around the body?
3. In what ways do people construct and deconstruct identities through the performance of sexuality?
4. In what ways might identities be challenged by performances of online sexuality?
5. What, if any, impact do computer-mediated relationships have on real-life relationships (or one’s ability to have such relationships)? Or is our contemporary culture and the way we interact with one another intimately informing cyberspace?

Hi folks - since you’ve got more than enough on your plate this week with continuing to work on revisions of your essay and three readings, I’m not going to require posting this week. HOWEVER, if you are behind in any way (have missed some postings, for example), I will accept comments to this blog with regards to any one of the readings this week and will count as EXTRA CREDIT.

So this is your opportunity to do a little catch-up if you are behind.

No joke . . .