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Pornography Online

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

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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Cronin, B. (2016). Pornography Online. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7163-9_87-1

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