“There’s something compelling about real life”: Technologies of security and acceleration on Chaturbate
Adult webcam platforms, or sexcams , can be considered platforms for the laboring of affect: machines that exploit, accelerate, and capitalize on it. As expected, the primary source of value is the broadcast of sexual performances. However, this article argues, the extraction of value on sexcam plat...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2019-12-01
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| Series: | Social Media + Society |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305119894000 |