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Pornography Online

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Synonyms

Adult entertainment industry; Deep web; Erotica; Invisible web; Obscenity; Pornography; Pornography business; Sex industry

Glossary

Affordances :

Features and functionality of a technology that invite or enable use

Deep Web :

World Wide Web content that is not indexable by common search engines

Indie porn :

Independently produced pornography

Media substitution :

Displacement of an existing technology by a newer, superior one

Peer-to-peer networks :

Networks of computers connected to the Internet that allow users to share files

Pornography :

Representations of sexual behavior designed to excite

Pornucopia :

Neologism that suggests a world replete with pornographic goods and services

Porn tubes :

YouTube-like websites that allow individuals and commercial entities to upload pornographic content

Prosumer :

Neologism that suggests the fusion of producer and consumer

Socio-technical :

An analytic perspective that focuses on interactions between people and technologies

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  1. School of Informatics & Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA

    Cronin Blaise

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Reda Alhajj

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Jon Rokne

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Blaise, C. (2014). Pornography Online. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6170-8_87

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