Susanna Paasonen Libros

An exploration of how and why social media content is tagged as not safe for work and an argument against conflating sexual content with risk.

The book delves into the intricate relationship between sex and playfulness, highlighting how playful experimentation shapes individual sexual appetites and identities. Susanna Paasonen explores the urgency of sexual pleasure and the fluidity of desires through various lenses, including advice literature, popular media, and personal experiences in online sexual role-playing. By analyzing diverse cultural texts, from the Fifty Shades series to BDSM documentaries, the work illuminates the often-overlooked connections between sexuality and play, enriching our understanding of both.

Figures of Fantasy explores the popularization of the idea of the Internet as a «cyberspace» and considers the implications this has for discussions of gender and identity. The book analyzes the standard figures used to conceptualize and explain technology and gender, and traces the ways in which these concepts have served to create the figure of the Internet as a cyberspace - a manner of thinking that has come to dominate Internet research internationally, making visible its historicity, limitations, and implications. Figures of Fantasy offers an innovative theoretical approach to Internet research, and provides a highly original, systematic critique of the canonical works in the field.

A new approach to understanding the culture of ubiquitous connectivity, arguing that our dependence on networked infrastructure does not equal addiction.In this book, Susanna Paasonen takes on a dominant narrative repeated in journalistic and academic accounts for more than a that we are addicted to devices, apps, and sites designed to distract us, that drive us to boredom, with detrimental effect on our capacities to focus, relate, remember, and be. Paasonen argues instead that network connectivity is a matter of infrastructure and necessary for the operations of the everyday. Dependencies on it do not equal addiction but speak to the networks within which our agency can take shape.

Delving into the cinematic allure and iconic persona of Yul Brynner, this book examines his influential roles and the impact he had on film and culture. It highlights his unique style, charisma, and the way he captivated audiences, while also exploring his contributions to the industry. Through critical analysis and insights, the work reveals how Brynner's performances shaped his legacy as a legendary figure in cinema.

This is a concise and accessible introduction into the concept of objectification, one of the most frequently recurring terms in both academic and media debates on the gendered politics of contemporary culture, and core to critiquing the social positions of sex and sexism. Objectification is an issue of media representation and everyday experiences alike. Central to theories of film spectatorship, beauty fashion and sex, objectification is connected to the harassment and discrimination of women, to the sexualisation of culture and the pressing presence of body norms within media. This concise guidebook traces the history of the term's emergence and its use in a variety of contexts such as debates about sexualisation and the male gaze, as well as its mobilization in connection with the body, selfies, and pornography, as well as in feminist activism. It will be an essential introduction for undergraduate and postgraduate students in Gender Studies, Media Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies or Visual Arts.