[Air-L] CFP AR/VR: Deepfakes: Celebrity

[Feona Attwood]

PORN STUDIES CALL FOR FORUM PIECES

Our Forum section is a space for pieces that are shorter than the usual academic article, usually somewhere between 1,500 and 3,000 words, and they can take a variety of forms, including short articles, reports, interviews, commentaries and roundtable discussions. Forum pieces are peer reviewed. Previous Forum topics have included porn panics and public health; Ireland, porn and sex education; feminist porn; fashion and porn; porn and music; porn in the classroom, and surveillance and porn. 

We are currently seeking Forum contributions on the following topics:

Pornography and Virtual and Augmented Realities
hardware, design, techniques and aesthetics of VR/AR porn 
the possibilities and limitations of porn technology
histories and theories of media immersion and and interactivity
issues of realism, affect and space
new performers, producers, studios
the implications of VR and AR for audience studies
reporting on VR and AR and predictions about ‘the future of sex’

Deepfake porn
faceswap platforms, repositories and communities
‘nonconsensual pornography’
issues of privacy and ethics
‘celebrity porn’; celebrity sex tapes, look alikes, nude hacks, real person fiction, slash manips
toxic technocultures; toxic geek masculinity

Porn, Celebrity and Stardom
acts of archiving, collecting and preserving performance 
branding 
DIY stars 
entrepreneurial stardom 
labours of stardom – affective, emotional and physical 
locating porn stardom 
national, international, and transnational stars 
politics of porn stardom 
stars and fandoms