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17. The pornographic mirror: Sexual performances and sexual personas in academia.

Author

Jacobs, Katrien

Subjects
*ACADEMIA, *ONLINE dating, *CRITICAL pedagogy, *MIRRORS, *RESEARCH personnel, *HUMAN sexuality
Abstract

This article makes a case for sex-positive research and pedagogy that acknowledges and hence reflects on the researcher's use of a "pornographic mirror," a critical and consensual engagement with erotic and pornographic (self-)imagery that opens up bodily sensations and analysis in the public sphere. The article will do so by means of examples of research in which scholars were able to successfully test out such corporeal-driven scholarship and use of porn images. In the first example, the author interviewed an older generation of sex educators in San Francisco, who in the 1960s/1970s pioneered the idea that students could perform and analyze their own sexual behaviors by acting in, and reflecting on, sexually explicit movies, an idea which has also been incorporated into contemporary feminist and queer pornography. This historical moment in radical pedagogy is extended into a contemporary example of sex-positive research about online dating, in which the author comments on her use of sex chat and sexual self-imagery to dissect the online dating site adultfriendfinder.com. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2024
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25. Illumination for mixed reality of complex-to-model scenes

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Jacobs, Katrien

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Illumination for mixed reality consists of simulating the illumination of 3D scenes composed with real and virtual 3D objects. Current research into illumination methods for mixed reality focuses on im proving the quality of the simulated illumination, while assuming that the required input data, the scene geometry and radiance, can be accurately acquired. This thesis provides methods that reduce the impor tance of this condition. As a first contribution a classification of the illumination methods for mixed reality is presented, from which can be derived that the existing methods are not robust against inaccurate input data. This limits the applicability of the previous methods to easy-to-model scenes. In complex-to-model environments, the capture of the geometry and radiance can be compromised due to camera movement, object movement, and illumination changes. Examples of such uncontrollable environments are scenes with natural lighting and deformable objects. The influence of an incorrect geometric model and radiance distribution on the quality of the illumination methods is analysed. The problems are examined and new solutions are proposed to enable illumination simulation for mixed reality of complex-to-model scenes. Rather than improving the geometry and radiance capture using expensive equipment, this thesis provides low-cost solutions. Two solutions are separately proposed to compensate for the inaccurate geometry and for the radiance capture, while a third solution embeds the consideration of inaccurate geometry and the instability of radiance information into one single method. The combination of the presented methods allows the simulation of consistent illumination for mixed reality without the need of increasing the efforts to capture more accurately the geometry and radiance. Making illumination methods for mixed reality more accessible and applicable to real-world environ ments is the key contribution of this work to the state of the art in illumination simulation for mixed reality.

Published
2007

26. Is There Life on Adult FriendFinder? Sex and Logic with the Happy Dictator

Author

Jacobs, Katrien

Subjects
Social and Cultural Anthropology, Internet sex, Pornography, Web 2.0, Chinese Internet Culture, Hong Kong sexuality, Impression Management
Abstract

This paper investigates web users and their sexual behaviors and pornographic self-representations as observed on the sex and dating site http://www.adultfrienfinder.com. The website is a social network and encourages members to find real-life partners for sex whether it be casual sex affairs between singles, swinging couples, or polyamorous extra-marital affairs between “aba” (“attached but available”) individuals and their lovers. The analysis is based on theories of ethnography and social networking and analyzes the effects of corporate networks and homogenizing “sex scripts” on sex lives and Internet culture in Hong Kong.

Published
2009

30. Ageivism Roundtable

Author

De Graeve, Katrien, primary, Meulenbelt, Anja, additional, Backer, Ryan, additional, De Vuyst, Sara, additional, Jacobs, Katrien, additional, and Swinnen, Aagje, additional

Published
2022
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33. The Afterglow of Women's Pornography in Post-Digital China

Author

Jacobs, Katrien

Subjects
The Afterglow of Women's Pornography in Post-Digital China (Nonfiction work) -- Jacobs, Katrien -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, History, Humanities, Regional focus/area studies
Abstract

Katrien Jacobs. The Afterglow of Women's Pornography in Post-Digital China. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 204 pp. Hardcover $95.00, ISBN 978-1-13748-517-5. In The Afterglow of Women's Pornography in Post-Digital China, [...]

Published
2016

50. Pornography in small places and other space

Author

Jacobs, Katrien

Subjects
Globalization -- Evaluation, Globalization -- Influence, Internet pornography -- Evaluation, Internet pornography -- Influence, Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies, Sociology and social work
Abstract

The Internets decentralized mechanisms of power and communication, including debating societies and playgrounds, has entered the realm of online porn and sexuality. The commercial pornography flooding the Internet and pockets of sex activism, which is alongside budding the porn boom, is investigated.

Published
2004

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