Amy A Hasinoff
Biographic Data
| ID | 4209930 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy A Hasinoff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy A |
| FAMILY NAME | Hasinoff |
| SIGNATURE | HASINOFF A A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Denver |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7530-8278 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 88 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The end of consent
Consent is widely upheld as the cornerstone of sexual violence prevention and is often also positioned as the precondition and guarantor of sexual pleasure, connection, and intimacy. Yet, there are well-documented limitations of consent, including its fantasies of rational autonomy, communicative transparency, and the interpersonal contract as primary models for intimate relationality. These problems have led activists and researchers to offer ma…
From Scalability to Subsidiarity in Addressing Online Harm
Large social media platforms are generally designed for scalability-the ambition to increase in size without a fundamental change in form. This means that to address harm among users, they favor automated moderation wherever possible and typically apply a uniform set of rules. This article contrasts scalability with restorative and transformative justice approaches to harm, which are usually context-sensitive, relational, and individualized. We a…
Cessons de parler de revenge porn
La pratique du revenge porn (porno revanchard) consiste à partager ou à publier des images sexuelles privées d’autrui sans sa permission. Malgré son nom, le « revenge porn » n’est ni réellement de la pornographie, ni motivé initialement par la revanche. Cet article décrit le contexte social et les implications du revenge porn, examine dans quelle mesure les lois américaines qui s’y appliquent sont incohérentes et inadaptées, et conclut en suggéra…
Ashamed of shaming? Stories of managing, deflecting, and acknowledging shame after committing image-based sexual abuse
While a range of studies examine what drives people to nonconsensually distribute sexual images, there is little research on what they feel after having shamed someone online. Do image-sharers feel any shame themselves? Using narrative criminology, we analyze their statements during police investigations to examine if and how they manage shame. We find that many stories about committing image-based sexual abuse deny responsibility, neutralize act…
Feature Analysis
Many apps are designed to solve a problem or accomplish a task, such as managing a health condition, creating a to-do-list, or finding work. The solutions that app developers offer reflects how they believe that users and other stakeholders understand the problem. Each individual developer may have different ideas but analyzing many apps together can reveal the average or typical ways that developers in the set think about the problems that their…
Rape
This study of mobile phone apps designed to prevent sexual violence (n = 215) is a quantitative analysis of all their features (n = 807). We analyze the intended users (victims, bystanders, and perpetrators) and rape prevention strategies of each feature, finding that anti-rape app design generally reinforces and reflects pervasive rape myths, by both targeting potential victims and reinforcing stranger-danger. To demonstrate that these limitatio…
Children and the politics of sexuality
"Children and the politics of sexuality: the sexualization of children debate revisited." Information, Communication & Society, 20(12), pp. 1827–1828
The Silicon Valley Ethos
This special issue of Television and New Media critically examines the ethos of Silicon Valley, imagined broadly, by analyzing its products, discourses, and practices. We argue that, as a technology industry and a cultural force, Silicon Valley’s practices and discourses reflect and produce particular social and economic investments in technology as a tool of empowerment and social change. Overall, the issue argues that the ethos of Silicon Valle…
Where Are You? Location Tracking and the Promise of Child Safety
Life360 is a surveillance app marketed to families that tracks and shares users’ location information in the name of child safety. Using this app as a case study, I examine how one Silicon Valley company promotes the idea that digital data are inherently objective and meaningful, specifically in the way they frame location information as necessary and sufficient for protecting children from harm. Apps like Life360 sell users a service that collec…
Sexting Panic
This book illustrates that anxieties about technology and teen girls' sexuality distract from critical questions about how to adapt norms of privacy and consent for new media. Though mobile phones can be used to cause harm, it notes that the criminalization and abstinence policies meant to curb sexting often fail to account for distinctions between consensual sharing and malicious distribution. The book describes sexting as the creation and shari…
How to have great sext
Both mobile phone communication and the genre of sex advice writing are often criticized, the former as unkind and the latter as sexist. Yet some research indicates that digitally mediated communication may have some advantages, particularly when disinhibition might confer benefits such as personal expression or resisting coercion and sexual harassment. This paper investigates whether consent is discussed differently in popular online sexting tip…
‘Myspace led girl to Mideast’
In June 2006 a 16-year-old Michigan girl reached an airport in Jordan in her attempt to visit a boyfriend she met on Myspace, 20-year-old Ali from the West Bank town of Jericho. The national media attention to this relationship begins with fears that Ali was an online predator, moves to stories of the pair as star-crossed lovers and constructions of Ali as a dangerous Arab terrorist, and ends with the conclusion that Ali was simply a bad boyfrien…
Blaming Sexualization for Sexting
Contradictions of Participation
Keywords: New Media StudiesFeminismParticipation
Sexting as media production
Many of the responses to teen sexting are ineffective and unjust: authorities sometimes blame the victims of nonconsensual sexting, use harsh child pornography laws against minors, and give teenagers the advice to simply abstain. While some scholars champion girls’ media production practices, mass media coverage of girls’ social media use since the early 2000s emphasizes concerns that girls are creating and sharing sexual content. In this paper, …
It's Sociobiology, Hon
Though the heated scientific debate that sociobiology initially generated has largely subsided, speculation on the genetic basis of social behaviors remains a thriving academic discipline and provides valuable content that can be easily translated into compelling newspaper articles, popular magazines, and self-help mass market paperbacks. In Cosmopolitan magazine, statements reflecting the genetic gender-determinism of sociobiology appear in offh…
Sexting as media production
Many of the responses to teen sexting are ineffective and unjust: authorities sometimes blame the victims of nonconsensual sexting, use harsh child pornography laws against minors, and give teenagers the advice to simply abstain. While some scholars champion girls’ media production practices, mass media coverage of girls’ social media use since the early 2000s emphasizes concerns that girls are creating and sharing sexual content. In this paper, …
Blaming Sexualization for Sexting
The Silicon Valley Ethos
This special issue of Television and New Media critically examines the ethos of Silicon Valley, imagined broadly, by analyzing its products, discourses, and practices. We argue that, as a technology industry and a cultural force, Silicon Valley’s practices and discourses reflect and produce particular social and economic investments in technology as a tool of empowerment and social change. Overall, the issue argues that the ethos of Silicon Valle…
Where Are You? Location Tracking and the Promise of Child Safety
Life360 is a surveillance app marketed to families that tracks and shares users’ location information in the name of child safety. Using this app as a case study, I examine how one Silicon Valley company promotes the idea that digital data are inherently objective and meaningful, specifically in the way they frame location information as necessary and sufficient for protecting children from harm. Apps like Life360 sell users a service that collec…
How to have great sext
Both mobile phone communication and the genre of sex advice writing are often criticized, the former as unkind and the latter as sexist. Yet some research indicates that digitally mediated communication may have some advantages, particularly when disinhibition might confer benefits such as personal expression or resisting coercion and sexual harassment. This paper investigates whether consent is discussed differently in popular online sexting tip…
It's Sociobiology, Hon
Though the heated scientific debate that sociobiology initially generated has largely subsided, speculation on the genetic basis of social behaviors remains a thriving academic discipline and provides valuable content that can be easily translated into compelling newspaper articles, popular magazines, and self-help mass market paperbacks. In Cosmopolitan magazine, statements reflecting the genetic gender-determinism of sociobiology appear in offh…
From Scalability to Subsidiarity in Addressing Online Harm
Large social media platforms are generally designed for scalability-the ambition to increase in size without a fundamental change in form. This means that to address harm among users, they favor automated moderation wherever possible and typically apply a uniform set of rules. This article contrasts scalability with restorative and transformative justice approaches to harm, which are usually context-sensitive, relational, and individualized. We a…
Feature Analysis
Many apps are designed to solve a problem or accomplish a task, such as managing a health condition, creating a to-do-list, or finding work. The solutions that app developers offer reflects how they believe that users and other stakeholders understand the problem. Each individual developer may have different ideas but analyzing many apps together can reveal the average or typical ways that developers in the set think about the problems that their…
Contradictions of Participation
Keywords: New Media StudiesFeminismParticipation
It's Sociobiology, Hon
Though the heated scientific debate that sociobiology initially generated has largely subsided, speculation on the genetic basis of social behaviors remains a thriving academic discipline and provides valuable content that can be easily translated into compelling newspaper articles, popular magazines, and self-help mass market paperbacks. In Cosmopolitan magazine, statements reflecting the genetic gender-determinism of sociobiology appear in offh…
Sexting as media production
Many of the responses to teen sexting are ineffective and unjust: authorities sometimes blame the victims of nonconsensual sexting, use harsh child pornography laws against minors, and give teenagers the advice to simply abstain. While some scholars champion girls’ media production practices, mass media coverage of girls’ social media use since the early 2000s emphasizes concerns that girls are creating and sharing sexual content. In this paper, …
‘Myspace led girl to Mideast’
In June 2006 a 16-year-old Michigan girl reached an airport in Jordan in her attempt to visit a boyfriend she met on Myspace, 20-year-old Ali from the West Bank town of Jericho. The national media attention to this relationship begins with fears that Ali was an online predator, moves to stories of the pair as star-crossed lovers and constructions of Ali as a dangerous Arab terrorist, and ends with the conclusion that Ali was simply a bad boyfrien…
Blaming Sexualization for Sexting
Contradictions of Participation
Keywords: New Media StudiesFeminismParticipation
Sexting Panic
This book illustrates that anxieties about technology and teen girls' sexuality distract from critical questions about how to adapt norms of privacy and consent for new media. Though mobile phones can be used to cause harm, it notes that the criminalization and abstinence policies meant to curb sexting often fail to account for distinctions between consensual sharing and malicious distribution. The book describes sexting as the creation and shari…
How to have great sext
Both mobile phone communication and the genre of sex advice writing are often criticized, the former as unkind and the latter as sexist. Yet some research indicates that digitally mediated communication may have some advantages, particularly when disinhibition might confer benefits such as personal expression or resisting coercion and sexual harassment. This paper investigates whether consent is discussed differently in popular online sexting tip…
The Silicon Valley Ethos
This special issue of Television and New Media critically examines the ethos of Silicon Valley, imagined broadly, by analyzing its products, discourses, and practices. We argue that, as a technology industry and a cultural force, Silicon Valley’s practices and discourses reflect and produce particular social and economic investments in technology as a tool of empowerment and social change. Overall, the issue argues that the ethos of Silicon Valle…
Where Are You? Location Tracking and the Promise of Child Safety
Life360 is a surveillance app marketed to families that tracks and shares users’ location information in the name of child safety. Using this app as a case study, I examine how one Silicon Valley company promotes the idea that digital data are inherently objective and meaningful, specifically in the way they frame location information as necessary and sufficient for protecting children from harm. Apps like Life360 sell users a service that collec…
Children and the politics of sexuality
"Children and the politics of sexuality: the sexualization of children debate revisited." Information, Communication & Society, 20(12), pp. 1827–1828
Rape
This study of mobile phone apps designed to prevent sexual violence (n = 215) is a quantitative analysis of all their features (n = 807). We analyze the intended users (victims, bystanders, and perpetrators) and rape prevention strategies of each feature, finding that anti-rape app design generally reinforces and reflects pervasive rape myths, by both targeting potential victims and reinforcing stranger-danger. To demonstrate that these limitatio…
Cessons de parler de revenge porn
La pratique du revenge porn (porno revanchard) consiste à partager ou à publier des images sexuelles privées d’autrui sans sa permission. Malgré son nom, le « revenge porn » n’est ni réellement de la pornographie, ni motivé initialement par la revanche. Cet article décrit le contexte social et les implications du revenge porn, examine dans quelle mesure les lois américaines qui s’y appliquent sont incohérentes et inadaptées, et conclut en suggéra…
Ashamed of shaming? Stories of managing, deflecting, and acknowledging shame after committing image-based sexual abuse
While a range of studies examine what drives people to nonconsensually distribute sexual images, there is little research on what they feel after having shamed someone online. Do image-sharers feel any shame themselves? Using narrative criminology, we analyze their statements during police investigations to examine if and how they manage shame. We find that many stories about committing image-based sexual abuse deny responsibility, neutralize act…
Feature Analysis
Many apps are designed to solve a problem or accomplish a task, such as managing a health condition, creating a to-do-list, or finding work. The solutions that app developers offer reflects how they believe that users and other stakeholders understand the problem. Each individual developer may have different ideas but analyzing many apps together can reveal the average or typical ways that developers in the set think about the problems that their…
From Scalability to Subsidiarity in Addressing Online Harm
Large social media platforms are generally designed for scalability-the ambition to increase in size without a fundamental change in form. This means that to address harm among users, they favor automated moderation wherever possible and typically apply a uniform set of rules. This article contrasts scalability with restorative and transformative justice approaches to harm, which are usually context-sensitive, relational, and individualized. We a…
The end of consent
Consent is widely upheld as the cornerstone of sexual violence prevention and is often also positioned as the precondition and guarantor of sexual pleasure, connection, and intimacy. Yet, there are well-documented limitations of consent, including its fantasies of rational autonomy, communicative transparency, and the interpersonal contract as primary models for intimate relationality. These problems have led activists and researchers to offer ma…
Psychology (12 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Harm (6 works) · Internet privacy (6 works) · Human sexuality (5 works)