Kenneth R Hanson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4118201 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth R Hanson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth R |
| FAMILY NAME | Hanson |
| SIGNATURE | HANSON K R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oregon |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5665-0852 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Sex Doll Specifications versus Human Body Characteristics
Sex dolls have been criticized for reproducing unrealistic expectations about human bodies. Yet precise sex doll measurements are lacking in the literature nor has there been any systematic attempt to determine the extent to which sex dolls exaggerate human characteristics. To address this gap, we compared the specifications of sex dolls marketed in the USA with the characteristics of women and men living in the USA. Specifically, we tested if an…
Replika Removing Erotic Role-Play Is Like Grand Theft Auto Removing Guns or Cars: Reddit Discourse on Artificial Intelligence Chatbots and Sexual Technologies
Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots designed to meet sexual desires are a growing sector in the sextech industry, yet little research on these applications exists. The authors examine a sample of posts and comments from the r/Replika subreddit after the temporary removal by Luka Inc. of erotic role-play from its chatbot Replika in 2023. Analysis of threaded posts ( n = 227) and comments suggests that users are critical of barriers to merging se…
Networked Participants, Networked Meanings: Using Networks to Visualize Ethnographic Data
Researchers can use data visualization techniques to explore, analyze, and present data in new ways. Although quantitative data are visualized most often, recent innovations have brought attention to the potential benefits of visualizing qualitative data. In this article, the authors demonstrate one way researchers can use networks to analyze and present ethnographic interview data. The authors suggest that because many respondents know one anoth…
What Does the Personification of Love and Sex Dolls Explain about Doll Owners
Scholarly debates on sex dolls tend to view them in one of two ways. Either the purchase and use of sex dolls reflects and exacerbates misogyny, or that dolls are themselves a technological marvel meeting an array of sexual and emotional needs in sex negative cultures. I complicate these views by analyzing how and why heterosexual men personify their hyperreal sex toys in conventionally feminine, albeit hypersexualized, ways. Drawing on digital e…
Sex: Click Here to Upgrade
As the rapidly expanding sex tech industry tries to evolve past its historical connection to patriarchy and misogyny, profits continue to be a key motivator. Can feminist entrepreneurs within the sex tech industry escape exploitative capitalist logics? And to what extent do capitalist logics negate the potential of the industry to lessen sexual and gender inequalities? In this article, I draw on observations of sex tech movers and shakers and int…
It’s Getting Difficult to Be a Straight White Man”: Bundled Masculinity Grievances on Reddit
Collective Exclusion: How White Heterosexual Dating App Norms Reproduce Status Quo Hookup Culture
This article analyzes how heterosexual college students use dating apps with their peer groups, and how their collective behaviors privilege heteronormativity and whiteness on a college campus in the United States. By focusing on the collective practices of heterosexual dating app users, this article draws out how taken-for-granted assumptions about hookup culture and dating apps manifest in group behaviors that are shown to limit the available s…
The Silicone Self: Examining Sexual Selfhood and Stigma within the Love and Sex Doll Community
While previous research has theorized the potential benefits and consequences of intimate relationships with robots and dolls, little empirical research has been conducted on today's love and sex doll owners. By drawing on digital ethnographic data and interviews with 41 love and sex doll community members, I explore how love and sex doll owners account for their transgressive sex practice. I argue these accounts reveal the underlying sexual self…
Now more than ever: Citams's contributions to a pandemic society
Each year the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association curates a special issue highlighting sociological contributions to technology and media studies. That tradition continued in 2020, even as everything else changed. The articles included in this year’s special issue were mostly written pre-Pandemic, yet their implications seem amplified by the current historical moment. With …
From Doers to Donors: Sociology Students’ Perceptions of Experiential Philanthropy
Service learning is a well-established part of the sociology curriculum in many American universities and colleges. Less well known is student-led philanthropy (also known as experiential philanthropy), a form of service learning that encourages students to donate money to the community partners they are serving. Underwritten by national foundations or regional Campus Compacts, student-led philanthropy (SLP) positions undergraduates as donors as …
Becoming a (Gendered) Dating App User: An Analysis of How Heterosexual College Students Navigate Deception and Interactional Ambiguity on Dating Apps
Policy Watch: The Food Stamp Program and Welfare Reform
Major changes have been proposed for the Food Stamp Program, including replacing the program with block grants to the states, cashing out the benefits, and reducing program funding from baseline levels. This paper will explore the impacts of food stamp reform on food spending, income support, welfare reform, agriculture, and the rest of the economy. A comprehensive set of scenarios is used to examine the potential economic consequences. The analy…
Replika Removing Erotic Role-Play Is Like Grand Theft Auto Removing Guns or Cars: Reddit Discourse on Artificial Intelligence Chatbots and Sexual Technologies
Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots designed to meet sexual desires are a growing sector in the sextech industry, yet little research on these applications exists. The authors examine a sample of posts and comments from the r/Replika subreddit after the temporary removal by Luka Inc. of erotic role-play from its chatbot Replika in 2023. Analysis of threaded posts ( n = 227) and comments suggests that users are critical of barriers to merging se…
It’s Getting Difficult to Be a Straight White Man”: Bundled Masculinity Grievances on Reddit
What Does the Personification of Love and Sex Dolls Explain about Doll Owners
Scholarly debates on sex dolls tend to view them in one of two ways. Either the purchase and use of sex dolls reflects and exacerbates misogyny, or that dolls are themselves a technological marvel meeting an array of sexual and emotional needs in sex negative cultures. I complicate these views by analyzing how and why heterosexual men personify their hyperreal sex toys in conventionally feminine, albeit hypersexualized, ways. Drawing on digital e…
Networked Participants, Networked Meanings: Using Networks to Visualize Ethnographic Data
Researchers can use data visualization techniques to explore, analyze, and present data in new ways. Although quantitative data are visualized most often, recent innovations have brought attention to the potential benefits of visualizing qualitative data. In this article, the authors demonstrate one way researchers can use networks to analyze and present ethnographic interview data. The authors suggest that because many respondents know one anoth…
The Silicone Self: Examining Sexual Selfhood and Stigma within the Love and Sex Doll Community
While previous research has theorized the potential benefits and consequences of intimate relationships with robots and dolls, little empirical research has been conducted on today's love and sex doll owners. By drawing on digital ethnographic data and interviews with 41 love and sex doll community members, I explore how love and sex doll owners account for their transgressive sex practice. I argue these accounts reveal the underlying sexual self…
Becoming a (Gendered) Dating App User: An Analysis of How Heterosexual College Students Navigate Deception and Interactional Ambiguity on Dating Apps
Policy Watch: The Food Stamp Program and Welfare Reform
Major changes have been proposed for the Food Stamp Program, including replacing the program with block grants to the states, cashing out the benefits, and reducing program funding from baseline levels. This paper will explore the impacts of food stamp reform on food spending, income support, welfare reform, agriculture, and the rest of the economy. A comprehensive set of scenarios is used to examine the potential economic consequences. The analy…
Collective Exclusion: How White Heterosexual Dating App Norms Reproduce Status Quo Hookup Culture
This article analyzes how heterosexual college students use dating apps with their peer groups, and how their collective behaviors privilege heteronormativity and whiteness on a college campus in the United States. By focusing on the collective practices of heterosexual dating app users, this article draws out how taken-for-granted assumptions about hookup culture and dating apps manifest in group behaviors that are shown to limit the available s…
Policy Watch: The Food Stamp Program and Welfare Reform
Major changes have been proposed for the Food Stamp Program, including replacing the program with block grants to the states, cashing out the benefits, and reducing program funding from baseline levels. This paper will explore the impacts of food stamp reform on food spending, income support, welfare reform, agriculture, and the rest of the economy. A comprehensive set of scenarios is used to examine the potential economic consequences. The analy…
Becoming a (Gendered) Dating App User: An Analysis of How Heterosexual College Students Navigate Deception and Interactional Ambiguity on Dating Apps
Now more than ever: Citams's contributions to a pandemic society
Each year the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association curates a special issue highlighting sociological contributions to technology and media studies. That tradition continued in 2020, even as everything else changed. The articles included in this year’s special issue were mostly written pre-Pandemic, yet their implications seem amplified by the current historical moment. With …
From Doers to Donors: Sociology Students’ Perceptions of Experiential Philanthropy
Service learning is a well-established part of the sociology curriculum in many American universities and colleges. Less well known is student-led philanthropy (also known as experiential philanthropy), a form of service learning that encourages students to donate money to the community partners they are serving. Underwritten by national foundations or regional Campus Compacts, student-led philanthropy (SLP) positions undergraduates as donors as …
Sex: Click Here to Upgrade
As the rapidly expanding sex tech industry tries to evolve past its historical connection to patriarchy and misogyny, profits continue to be a key motivator. Can feminist entrepreneurs within the sex tech industry escape exploitative capitalist logics? And to what extent do capitalist logics negate the potential of the industry to lessen sexual and gender inequalities? In this article, I draw on observations of sex tech movers and shakers and int…
It’s Getting Difficult to Be a Straight White Man”: Bundled Masculinity Grievances on Reddit
Collective Exclusion: How White Heterosexual Dating App Norms Reproduce Status Quo Hookup Culture
This article analyzes how heterosexual college students use dating apps with their peer groups, and how their collective behaviors privilege heteronormativity and whiteness on a college campus in the United States. By focusing on the collective practices of heterosexual dating app users, this article draws out how taken-for-granted assumptions about hookup culture and dating apps manifest in group behaviors that are shown to limit the available s…
The Silicone Self: Examining Sexual Selfhood and Stigma within the Love and Sex Doll Community
While previous research has theorized the potential benefits and consequences of intimate relationships with robots and dolls, little empirical research has been conducted on today's love and sex doll owners. By drawing on digital ethnographic data and interviews with 41 love and sex doll community members, I explore how love and sex doll owners account for their transgressive sex practice. I argue these accounts reveal the underlying sexual self…
Networked Participants, Networked Meanings: Using Networks to Visualize Ethnographic Data
Researchers can use data visualization techniques to explore, analyze, and present data in new ways. Although quantitative data are visualized most often, recent innovations have brought attention to the potential benefits of visualizing qualitative data. In this article, the authors demonstrate one way researchers can use networks to analyze and present ethnographic interview data. The authors suggest that because many respondents know one anoth…
What Does the Personification of Love and Sex Dolls Explain about Doll Owners
Scholarly debates on sex dolls tend to view them in one of two ways. Either the purchase and use of sex dolls reflects and exacerbates misogyny, or that dolls are themselves a technological marvel meeting an array of sexual and emotional needs in sex negative cultures. I complicate these views by analyzing how and why heterosexual men personify their hyperreal sex toys in conventionally feminine, albeit hypersexualized, ways. Drawing on digital e…
Sex Doll Specifications versus Human Body Characteristics
Sex dolls have been criticized for reproducing unrealistic expectations about human bodies. Yet precise sex doll measurements are lacking in the literature nor has there been any systematic attempt to determine the extent to which sex dolls exaggerate human characteristics. To address this gap, we compared the specifications of sex dolls marketed in the USA with the characteristics of women and men living in the USA. Specifically, we tested if an…
Replika Removing Erotic Role-Play Is Like Grand Theft Auto Removing Guns or Cars: Reddit Discourse on Artificial Intelligence Chatbots and Sexual Technologies
Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots designed to meet sexual desires are a growing sector in the sextech industry, yet little research on these applications exists. The authors examine a sample of posts and comments from the r/Replika subreddit after the temporary removal by Luka Inc. of erotic role-play from its chatbot Replika in 2023. Analysis of threaded posts ( n = 227) and comments suggests that users are critical of barriers to merging se…
Psychology (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (3 works)