News, sex, and the fight between corporate control and human communication online

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Centralization, decentralization, hobbyism, and monetization have been in perpetual conflict over dominance on the internet for decades. Two domains stand in the center of this fight: news and sex. While sex was long a domain of hobbyist interaction, news was long a domain of centralized, corporate aggregation. Today, subversive use of existing monetized services blur the lines, like decentralized news content on YouTube channels as well as nude content on hub sites or Onlyfans, which retain decentralization at the expense of introducing monetization.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPeople, Technology, and Social Organization : Interactionist Studies of Everyday Life
EditorsDirk vom Lehn, Will Gibson, Natalia Ruiz-Junco
Number of pages17
PublisherTaylor and Francis Inc.
Publication date01.01.2023
Pages42-58
ISBN (Print)9781032230689
ISBN (Electronic)9781000967074, 9781003277750
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Publication statusPublished - 01.01.2023

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© 2024 selection and editorial matter, Dirk vom Lehn, Will Gibson and Natalia Ruiz-Junco; individual chapters, the contributors.

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