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Introduction Introduction
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Spectacular Sex: The Sordid Story of Sexting Spectacular Sex: The Sordid Story of Sexting
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Historicizing Sexting: Beyond New and Old Historicizing Sexting: Beyond New and Old
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Doing Sex: Beyond Mediation and Mediatization Doing Sex: Beyond Mediation and Mediatization
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Troubling Sex: Beyond Private/Real and Public/Fake Troubling Sex: Beyond Private/Real and Public/Fake
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Policing Sex/uality: Beyond Personal and Political Policing Sex/uality: Beyond Personal and Political
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Conclusion: From Either/Or to Both/And Conclusion: From Either/Or to Both/And
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Acknowledgments Acknowledgments
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References References
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Notes Notes
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Mediatizing Sex: Sexting and/as Digital Discourse
Get accessCrispin Thurlow is Professor of Language and Communication and Director of the Department of English at the University of Bern, Switzerland. His academic profile is at www.crispinthurlow.net.
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Published:04 April 2019
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This version:June 2021
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Abstract
This chapter focuses on sex/uality in the context of so-called new media and, specifically, digital discourse: technologically mediated linguistic or communicative practices, and mediatized representations of these practices. To help think through the relationship among sex, discourse, and (new) media, the discussion focuses on sexting and two instances of sexting “scandals” in the news. Against this backdrop, the chapter sets out four persistent binaries that typically shape public and academic writing about sex/uality and especially digital sex/uality: new-old, mediation-mediatization, private/real-public/fake, and personal-political. These either-or approaches are problematic, because they no longer account for the practical realities and lived experiences of both sex and media. Scholars interested in digital sex/uality are advised to adopt a “both-and” approach in which media (i.e., digital technologies and The Media) both create pleasurable, potentially liberating opportunities to use our bodies (sexually or otherwise) and simultaneously thwart us, shame us, or shut us down. In this sense, there is nothing that is really “new” after all.
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