{"product_id":"hot-connections-jenny-sundzsn-9780262052061","title":"Hot Connections: Why Sexual Platforms Matter","description":"\u003cb\u003eA rethinking of \"the social\" in social media which includes the sexual.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat can we learn from including sexual platforms in definitions of social media and, by extension, from including sex in definitions of \"the social\" itself? \u003ci\u003eHot Connections\u003c\/i\u003e explores three locally operating sexual platforms: the Swedish Darkside, used by kink and BDSM practitioners; the Estonian Libertine Center, used mainly by nonmonogamous people; and the Finnish Alastonsuomi, used for a wide variety of nude and sexual displays of self-expression. What avenues do these platforms open for understanding the role that sexuality plays in people's networked routines, social bonds, and forms of relating? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSexual social media affords freedom of worldmaking, belonging, and a right to sexually exist. While providing vital spaces for sexual self-expression--and indeed, hot connections--platform connectivity also involves friction as expectations, wishes, and desires clash and collide. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIntervening in debates on the value of sexual social media, \u003ci\u003eHot Connections\u003c\/i\u003e discusses what it means to research sexuality when sexual data is understood as sensitive by default, what platform governance may look like if viewed from the margins, and how sex and intimacy are not the same thing in networked sexuality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jenny Sundén,Susanna Paasonen,Katrin Tiidenberg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0262052067\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780262052061\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Jenny Sundén","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48241931485439,"sku":"9780262052061","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7d1b85c3-17f1-479b-aad7-f3e78d574eea.jpg?v=1772656634","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hot-connections-jenny-sundzsn-9780262052061","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}