Response Assignment #6 – Due April 6th
Posted by kscott on April 3, 2007
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):
- How is sexuality embodied and performed in cyberspace?
- 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?
- In what ways do people construct and deconstruct identities through the performance of sexuality?
- In what ways might identities be challenged by performances of online sexuality?
- 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?
