Skip to main content

ETHNOS_APP

Home • Search • Journals • List 0

Jenny Sundén

Biographic Data

ID79367
NAMEJenny Sundén
GIVEN NAMESJenny
FAMILY NAMESundén
SIGNATURESUNDÉN J
AFFILIATIONSSödertörn University
ORCID0000-0002-6047-4369
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS31
TOTAL CITATIONS61
AUTHOR COUNT31
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2001
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX5
  • Glitchy Sextech: Failure, Frustration, and Fragility in Networked Sex Toys

    Open Access•Jenny Sundén, Zahra Stardust et al.•ARTICLE•Somatechnics•2026

    Sextech devices offer new opportunities for sexual exploration, learning, and play. In Cindy Gallop’s (2015) influential definition of sextech as technologies ‘designed to enhance, innovate and disrupt in every area of human sexuality and human sexual experience’, an almost revolutionary power to transform sex is at the forefront. But sextech is also inherently glitchy as apps, platforms, and connections are bound to fail or break, making interru…

  • Sextech Industries and Cultures: Towards Mediated Pleasures and Data Justice

    Open Access•Zahra Stardust, K Albury et al.•ARTICLE•AoIR Selected Papers of Internet…•2025

    The industry of sextech is on the rise. But while the term sextech has been applied to a wide range of intimate technologies, it is often understood in terms of technologies that enhance or improve sex in an individualist manner. This panel instead furthers an understanding less concerned with sexuality as a question of technological optimisation, and more invested in sextech as technologies, not only for pleasure and health, but also for regulat…

  • Sex as/and/on Social Media

    Open Access•Alexander Monea, Shaka Mcglotten et al.•ARTICLE•AoIR Selected Papers of Internet…•2025

    Sex is central to the internet. It exists everywhere online and yet is everywhere constrained, sanitized, normalized, and invisibilized. This panel will investigate the ways in which sex seeps, spills, and oozes across boundaries, both online and off, despite efforts to control and limit its impact beyond consumer capitalism. Author 1 examines online ‘gooning’ communities, oriented around prolonged masturbation sessions to multiple streams of por…

  • Between commodified and improvisational pleasures: Uses and experiences of sextech by queer, trans, and nonbinary people in Sweden and Australia

    Open Access•Jenny Sundén, K Albury et al.•ARTICLE•Sexualities•2025

    Sexual pleasure is a question of sexual justice and sexual rights in so far as who is allowed or denied pleasure is a vital issue for queer, trans, and nonbinary people. Pleasure is also intimately a technological question as sex was always entangled with and regulated by technologies. In this article, we seek to delineate a queer politics of pleasure by exploring LGBTQ+ people’s uses and experiences of sextech in Australia and Sweden with a spec…

  • Stories that will make you blush? Erotic audio fiction on the verge between privacy and publicness

    Open Access•Jenny Sundén, Sara Tanderup Linki et al.•ARTICLE•Sound Studies•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 40

    This article focuses on the rapidly growing Swedish market of app-based audio erotic fiction through an analysis of two significant apps and publishers: Blanche Stories and Ava Stories. We explore audio erotica apps as devices of both literature, pleasure and intimate sonic connectivity. First, we discuss the specific affordances of the born-audio format, its flexible and mobile forms of listening and the consequences of this flexibility for audi…

  • Les « sorcières sans honte » et les « putains de la tolérance »: La résistance féministe et les circuits affectifs de la haine en ligne

    Open Access•Jenny Sundén, Paasonen•ARTICLE•Revue française des sciences de…•2024

    Cet article se penche sur les discours et les résistances intersectionnels et affectifs de la haine en ligne en explorant l’usage réapproprié des termes « sorcières sans honte » et « putains de la tolérance ». Ces termes sont utilisés de manière péjorative par les groupes anti-immigration pour cibler les femmes blanches qui soutiennent les droits des minorités. En réappropriant ces étiquettes, les femmes transforment la honte en fierté et en rési…

  • Digital Kink Opacity: Sexual Social Media Beyond Visibility and Comprehension

    Open Access•Jenny Sundén•ARTICLE•AoIR Selected Papers of Internet…•2023

    Building on and expanding discussions of the value of anonymity and pseudonymity in digital cultures in general, and in queer digital cultures in particular, this paper explores notions of opacity as modes of resistance to dominating regimes of visibility on and beyond social media platforms. Across queer, postcolonial and digital media theorizing, opacity provides a way of thinking through the tension between the visible and the invisible, chall…

  • Rethinking the Social in Social Media

    Open Access•Paasonen, Susanna Paasonen et al.•ARTICLE•AoIR Selected Papers of Internet…•2023

    This paper makes an argument for the value of including sexual sites in definitions and analyses of social media. Building on interview data (four developer interviews and 56 user interviews) from three North European sexual platforms (Darkside, Alastonsuomi and Libertine.Center) devoted to nudity, sex, and kink, it examines the implications of defining sex platforms as social media and the analytical avenues that the inclusion of sexual sites op…

  • “Digital kink obscurity: A sexual politics beyond visibility and comprehension”

    Open Access•Jenny Sundén•ARTICLE•Sexualities•2023

    Based on an interview-driven ethnographic study of the Swedish digital BDSM, fetish and kink platform Darkside, this article explores digital kink expressions at a moment when kink communities are both marginalized and seemingly mainstream, navigating a tricky balance between visibility and invisibility, intelligibility and unintelligibility. Across queer, postcolonial, and digital media theorizing, “opacity” provides a way of rethinking these te…

  • Play, secrecy and consent: Theorizing privacy breaches and sensitive data in the world of networked sex toys

    Open Access•Jenny Sundén•ARTICLE•Sexualities•2023

    Based on a new materialist analysis of “vibrant matter” to understand the liveliness of sexual objects in toy-based sexual play, in this article I investigate the politics of thinking digital technologies as operating partly beyond human forms of agency and control. I use as my core examples privacy breaches and data leaks in the world of networked sex toys – such as a vibrator which allegedly audio recorded its clients’ play sessions without exp…

  • About Sex, Open-Mindedness, and Cinnamon Buns: Exploring Sexual Social Media

    Open Access•Paasonen, Jenny Sundén et al.•ARTICLE•Social Media + Society•2023•Cited by: 4•References: 22

    General purpose social media platforms-often incited by American legislation-increasingly exclude sex from acceptable forms of sociality in the abstract name of user safety. This article analyzes interview data (four developer interviews and 56 user interviews) from three North European sexual platforms (Darkside, Alastonsuomi, and Libertine.Center) to explore what follows from including sexual sites in definitions and analyses of social media an…

  • Vanilla normies and fellow pervs: Boundary work on sexual platforms

    Open Access•K Tiidenberg, Paasonen et al.•ARTICLE•Sexualities•2023•Cited by: 4•References: 29

    Building on a study of three Nordic and Baltic digital sexual platforms, this article analyzes the perceptions of enjoyable sex and sexual belonging among 60 people, who self-identify as sexually liberal. In dialogue with Gayle Rubin's formative work on sexual hierarchies and "good sex," we explore our participants' complex and often ambiguous sexual boundary work to delineate liberated sex. Independent of particular preferences (non-monogamy, BD…

  • Locating sex: Regional geographies of sexual social media

    Open Access•Jenny Sundén, Paasonen et al.•ARTICLE•Gender Place & Culture•2022•Cited by: 6•References: 12

    Contributing to the field of the geographies of digital sexualities, this article explores the geosocial dimensions of digital sexual cultures by analyzing three regionally operating, linguistically specific social media platforms devoted to sexual expression. Drawing on case studies of an Estonian platform used primarily for group sex, a Swedish platform for kink and BDSM, and a Finnish platform for nude self-expression, we ask how these contrib…

  • Space, Place and Location in Sexual Social Media

    Open Access•Jenny Sundén, K Tiidenberg et al.•ARTICLE•AoIR Selected Papers of Internet…•2021

    Contributing to the swiftly emerging field of the geographies of digital sexualities, this panel explores the geosocial and geopolitical dimensions of digital sexual cultures by zooming in on the connections between sexual practices, geographic imaginaries, and locally embedded social media platforms devoted to sexual expression. Building on case studies of an Estonian platform used primarily by those interested in group sex (LC, est. 2018), a Sw…

  • Isso é um absurdo! Sobre o humor feminista nas redes sociais

    Open Access•Jenny Sundén, Paasonen et al.•ARTICLE•Fronteiras - estudos midiáticos•2021

    Nas redes sociais, o humor feminista geralmente chama a atenção pela dinâmica com que aborda o gênero binário, do qual zomba, subverte e comenta. Com foco no Tumblr “Congrats, you have an all male panel”, no perfil “Man Who Has It All” no Twitter e do Facebook e no perfil do Twitter “Men Write Women”, este artigo observa como esses projetos reexecutam o poder assimétrico de gênero binário por meio da repetição e subversão, extraindo seu apelo da …

  • Shameless dicks: On male privilege, dick pic scandals, and public exposure

    Open Access•Paasonen, Susanna Paasonen et al.•ARTICLE•First Monday•2021

    Academic debates on shame and the involuntary networked circulation of naked pictures have largely focused on instances of hacked accounts of female celebrities, on revenge porn, and interconnected forms of slut-shaming. Meanwhile, dick pics have been predominantly examined as vehicles of sexual harassment within heterosexual contexts. Taking a somewhat different approach, this article examines leaked or otherwise involuntarily exposed dick pics …

  • We have tiny purses in our vaginas!!! #thanksforthat”: Absurdity as a feminist method of intervention

    Open Access•Jenny Sundén, Paasonen•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research Journal•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 4

    Purpose According to thesaurus definitions, the absurd translates as “ridiculously unreasonable, unsound, or incongruous”; “extremely silly; not logical and sensible”. As further indicated in the Latin root absurdus, “out of tune, uncouth, inappropriate, ridiculous,” humor in absurd registers plays with that which is out of harmony with both reason and decency. In this article, the authors make an argument for the absurd as a feminist method for …

  • Platformed Sex Lives

    Open Access•Jenny Sundén, K Tiidenberg et al.•ARTICLE•AoIR Selected Papers of Internet…•2020

    This panel builds on a recently funded research project on the geopolitics of digital sexual cultures in Estonia, Sweden, and Finland (2020-2022) investigating three local online platforms devoted to communities around nudity and kink: iha.ee, darkside.se, and alastonsuomi.com. Our case studies are in a sense “edge cases” which partly move within sexual margins, making space for alternate understandings of platform sociability. Contra to the curr…

  • Dis/connections: Toward an Ontology of Broken Relationality

    Jenny Sundén, Jelisaveta Blagojević•ARTICLE•Configurations•2019

    Ideas of relationality have come to influence a wide range of theoretical fields. In this article, we develop an understanding of relationality as not necessarily something continuous and uninterrupted (as is often the case), but rather as something fundamentally shaped through breaks and interruptions. We work through notions of relational brokenness by "thinking with" the telephone as an intriguing relational technology, a material metaphor, an…

  • Inappropriate Laughter: Affective Homophily and the Unlikely Comedy of #MeToo

    Open Access•Jenny Sundén, Paasonen et al.•ARTICLE•Social Media + Society•2019•Cited by: 4•References: 16

    This article investigates the affective and ambiguous dynamics of feminist humor as an unexpected strategy of resistance in connection with #MeToo, asking what laughter may do to the sharpness of negative affect of shame and anger driving the movement. Our inquiry comes in three vignettes. First, we deploy Nanette-Hannah Gadsby's 2018 Netflix success heralded as the comedy of the #MeToo era-arguing that the uniform viral warmth surrounding the sh…

  • Shameless hags and tolerance whores: Feminist resistance and the affective circuits of online hate

    Open Access•Jenny Sundén, Paasonen•ARTICLE•Feminist Media Studies•2018•Cited by: 15•References: 14

    This article explores shamelessness as a feminist tactic of resistance to online misogyny, hate and shaming within a Nordic context. In our Swedish examples, this involves affective reclaiming of the term “hagga” (hag), which has come to embody shameless femininity and feminist solidarity, as well as the Facebook event “Skamlös utsläckning” (shameless extinction), which extends the solidarity or the hag to a collective of non-men. Our Finnish exa…

  • Femininity revisited – A round table

    Open Access•Ulrika Dahl, Madeleine Kennedy-Macfoy et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Women s Studies•2018•Cited by: 4

    One of our motivations

  • On trans-, glitch, and gender as machinery of failure

    Open Access•Jenny Sundén•ARTICLE•First Monday•2015

    his paper develops an understanding of gender as something fundamentally technological, and as such broken. Drawing on the technological undercurrent in current posthumanist feminist theory, it puts into play a vocabulary of malfunctioning, broken, vulnerable technologies, and in particular uses the term ‘glitch’ to account for machinic failures in gender within the digital domain. As an intriguing example of the technologies of (trans)gender, th…

  • Temporalities of Transition: Trans- temporal Femininity in a Human Musical Automaton

    Open Access•Jenny Sundén•ARTICLE•Somatechnics•2015•Cited by: 6•References: 7

    This article takes as its point of departure the social media presence of a human musical automaton called Rabbit. As part of the US-based band Steam Powered Giraffe, Rabbit is performed by Bunny Bennett, who recently came out as a transgender woman. As a result of this shift, Rabbit is being transformed from a male automaton into a transgender female robot. The news of the transformation hit like a bomb in the emotionally invested fan base. The …

  • Clockwork corsets: Pressed against the past

    Open Access•Jenny Sundén•ARTICLE•International Journal of Cultural…•2014•References: 2

    For a feminist scholar of technology, contemporary steampunk cultures incorporate several interesting elements. They embrace playful ways of relating to technology. They contain thrifty Do-It-Yourself strategies and ethics of recycling, linking the crafting of sexually specific bodies to imaginative time-play. They involve an intermingling of technological extensions with modes of embodiment and costuming. The corset is an emblematic Victorian, i…

Next
  • Shameless hags and tolerance whores: Feminist resistance and the affective circuits of online hate

    Open Access•Jenny Sundén, Paasonen•ARTICLE•Feminist Media Studies•2018•Cited by: 15•References: 14

    This article explores shamelessness as a feminist tactic of resistance to online misogyny, hate and shaming within a Nordic context. In our Swedish examples, this involves affective reclaiming of the term “hagga” (hag), which has come to embody shameless femininity and feminist solidarity, as well as the Facebook event “Skamlös utsläckning” (shameless extinction), which extends the solidarity or the hag to a collective of non-men. Our Finnish exa…

  • Desires at Play: On Closeness and Epistemological Uncertainty

    Open Access•Jenny Sundén•ARTICLE•Games and Culture•2012•Cited by: 10•References: 28

    This article discusses knowledge production in game studies by exploring notions of emotion, closeness and (queer) desire in new media ethnography. It uses field notes and experiences from an ethnographic study of the online game World of Warcraft. As opposed to the kind of fieldwork where being, living, and staying in the field is the only option, new media ethnography brings with it the possibility of moving through different locations and bodi…

  • Locating sex: Regional geographies of sexual social media

    Open Access•Jenny Sundén, Paasonen et al.•ARTICLE•Gender Place & Culture•2022•Cited by: 6•References: 12

    Contributing to the field of the geographies of digital sexualities, this article explores the geosocial dimensions of digital sexual cultures by analyzing three regionally operating, linguistically specific social media platforms devoted to sexual expression. Drawing on case studies of an Estonian platform used primarily for group sex, a Swedish platform for kink and BDSM, and a Finnish platform for nude self-expression, we ask how these contrib…

  • Temporalities of Transition: Trans- temporal Femininity in a Human Musical Automaton

    Open Access•Jenny Sundén•ARTICLE•Somatechnics•2015•Cited by: 6•References: 7

    This article takes as its point of departure the social media presence of a human musical automaton called Rabbit. As part of the US-based band Steam Powered Giraffe, Rabbit is performed by Bunny Bennett, who recently came out as a transgender woman. As a result of this shift, Rabbit is being transformed from a male automaton into a transgender female robot. The news of the transformation hit like a bomb in the emotionally invested fan base. The …

  • What Happened to Difference in Cyberspace? The (Re)turn of the She-Cyborg

    Jenny Sundén•ARTICLE•Feminist Media Studies•2001•Cited by: 6

    (2001). What Happened to Difference in Cyberspace? The (Re)turn of the She-Cyborg. Feminist Media Studies: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 215-232

  • About Sex, Open-Mindedness, and Cinnamon Buns: Exploring Sexual Social Media

    Open Access•Paasonen, Jenny Sundén et al.•ARTICLE•Social Media + Society•2023•Cited by: 4•References: 22

    General purpose social media platforms-often incited by American legislation-increasingly exclude sex from acceptable forms of sociality in the abstract name of user safety. This article analyzes interview data (four developer interviews and 56 user interviews) from three North European sexual platforms (Darkside, Alastonsuomi, and Libertine.Center) to explore what follows from including sexual sites in definitions and analyses of social media an…

  • Vanilla normies and fellow pervs: Boundary work on sexual platforms

    Open Access•K Tiidenberg, Paasonen et al.•ARTICLE•Sexualities•2023•Cited by: 4•References: 29

    Building on a study of three Nordic and Baltic digital sexual platforms, this article analyzes the perceptions of enjoyable sex and sexual belonging among 60 people, who self-identify as sexually liberal. In dialogue with Gayle Rubin's formative work on sexual hierarchies and "good sex," we explore our participants' complex and often ambiguous sexual boundary work to delineate liberated sex. Independent of particular preferences (non-monogamy, BD…

  • Inappropriate Laughter: Affective Homophily and the Unlikely Comedy of #MeToo

    Open Access•Jenny Sundén, Paasonen et al.•ARTICLE•Social Media + Society•2019•Cited by: 4•References: 16

    This article investigates the affective and ambiguous dynamics of feminist humor as an unexpected strategy of resistance in connection with #MeToo, asking what laughter may do to the sharpness of negative affect of shame and anger driving the movement. Our inquiry comes in three vignettes. First, we deploy Nanette-Hannah Gadsby's 2018 Netflix success heralded as the comedy of the #MeToo era-arguing that the uniform viral warmth surrounding the sh…

  • Femininity revisited – A round table

    Open Access•Ulrika Dahl, Madeleine Kennedy-Macfoy et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Women s Studies•2018•Cited by: 4

    One of our motivations

  • Stories that will make you blush? Erotic audio fiction on the verge between privacy and publicness

    Open Access•Jenny Sundén, Sara Tanderup Linki et al.•ARTICLE•Sound Studies•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 40

    This article focuses on the rapidly growing Swedish market of app-based audio erotic fiction through an analysis of two significant apps and publishers: Blanche Stories and Ava Stories. We explore audio erotica apps as devices of both literature, pleasure and intimate sonic connectivity. First, we discuss the specific affordances of the born-audio format, its flexible and mobile forms of listening and the consequences of this flexibility for audi…

  • We have tiny purses in our vaginas!!! #thanksforthat”: Absurdity as a feminist method of intervention

    Open Access•Jenny Sundén, Paasonen•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research Journal•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 4

    Purpose According to thesaurus definitions, the absurd translates as “ridiculously unreasonable, unsound, or incongruous”; “extremely silly; not logical and sensible”. As further indicated in the Latin root absurdus, “out of tune, uncouth, inappropriate, ridiculous,” humor in absurd registers plays with that which is out of harmony with both reason and decency. In this article, the authors make an argument for the absurd as a feminist method for …

  • What Happened to Difference in Cyberspace? The (Re)turn of the She-Cyborg

    Jenny Sundén•ARTICLE•Feminist Media Studies•2001•Cited by: 6

    (2001). What Happened to Difference in Cyberspace? The (Re)turn of the She-Cyborg. Feminist Media Studies: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 215-232

  • En förlossningsmaskin utan slut: Simulering, Realism Och Postmänsklig Feminism

    Open Access•Jenny Sundén•ARTICLE•Tidskrift för genusvetenskap•2009

    Departing from a posthuman feminist understanding of the body (as something always already technological), this article critically explores the design of birth simulators and how simulator design relates to cultural understandings of intimate couplings between female bodies and technologies. The focus is on the construction of simulators, their possibilities, limitations and meanings – and not on actual use in clinical settings. Then again, think…

  • Inte en babe - Affekt, känsla och sexualitet i World of Warcaft

    Open Access•Jenny Sundén•ARTICLE•Tidskrift för genusvetenskap•2010

    Feminist game studies scholars are still few and far between, and little has been done in the intersection of queer theory and games. Informed by feminist discussions of affect, and of emotion, this article uses an ethnographic study of queer potentials in the MMOG (Massively Multiplayer Online Game) World of Warcraft as its core example. The article develops an understanding of online gaming by investigating embodied experiences, affective inves…

  • Gender and Sexuality in Online Game Cultures: Passionate Play

    Jenny Sundén, Malin Sveningsson•BOOK•Gender and Sexuality in Online…•2012

  • Desires at Play: On Closeness and Epistemological Uncertainty

    Open Access•Jenny Sundén•ARTICLE•Games and Culture•2012•Cited by: 10•References: 28

    This article discusses knowledge production in game studies by exploring notions of emotion, closeness and (queer) desire in new media ethnography. It uses field notes and experiences from an ethnographic study of the online game World of Warcraft. As opposed to the kind of fieldwork where being, living, and staying in the field is the only option, new media ethnography brings with it the possibility of moving through different locations and bodi…

  • Corporeal Anachronisms: Notes on Affect, Relationality, and Power in Steampunk

    Open Access•Jenny Sundén•ARTICLE•Somatechnics•2013•References: 9

    Steampunk is an aesthetic technological movement incorporating science fiction, art, engineering, and a vibrant 21st century Do-It-Yourself counterculture. This article explores the feminist potentials of ‘thinking with’ steampunk as a playful, affective and decidedly political response to the present technological condition. It starts out by navigating the field of affect theory with a Deleuzian reading of Baruch Spinoza on affect, to then engag…

  • Clockwork corsets: Pressed against the past

    Open Access•Jenny Sundén•ARTICLE•International Journal of Cultural…•2014•References: 2

    For a feminist scholar of technology, contemporary steampunk cultures incorporate several interesting elements. They embrace playful ways of relating to technology. They contain thrifty Do-It-Yourself strategies and ethics of recycling, linking the crafting of sexually specific bodies to imaginative time-play. They involve an intermingling of technological extensions with modes of embodiment and costuming. The corset is an emblematic Victorian, i…

  • On trans-, glitch, and gender as machinery of failure

    Open Access•Jenny Sundén•ARTICLE•First Monday•2015

    his paper develops an understanding of gender as something fundamentally technological, and as such broken. Drawing on the technological undercurrent in current posthumanist feminist theory, it puts into play a vocabulary of malfunctioning, broken, vulnerable technologies, and in particular uses the term ‘glitch’ to account for machinic failures in gender within the digital domain. As an intriguing example of the technologies of (trans)gender, th…

  • Temporalities of Transition: Trans- temporal Femininity in a Human Musical Automaton

    Open Access•Jenny Sundén•ARTICLE•Somatechnics•2015•Cited by: 6•References: 7

    This article takes as its point of departure the social media presence of a human musical automaton called Rabbit. As part of the US-based band Steam Powered Giraffe, Rabbit is performed by Bunny Bennett, who recently came out as a transgender woman. As a result of this shift, Rabbit is being transformed from a male automaton into a transgender female robot. The news of the transformation hit like a bomb in the emotionally invested fan base. The …

  • Shameless hags and tolerance whores: Feminist resistance and the affective circuits of online hate

    Open Access•Jenny Sundén, Paasonen•ARTICLE•Feminist Media Studies•2018•Cited by: 15•References: 14

    This article explores shamelessness as a feminist tactic of resistance to online misogyny, hate and shaming within a Nordic context. In our Swedish examples, this involves affective reclaiming of the term “hagga” (hag), which has come to embody shameless femininity and feminist solidarity, as well as the Facebook event “Skamlös utsläckning” (shameless extinction), which extends the solidarity or the hag to a collective of non-men. Our Finnish exa…

  • Femininity revisited – A round table

    Open Access•Ulrika Dahl, Madeleine Kennedy-Macfoy et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Women s Studies•2018•Cited by: 4

    One of our motivations

  • Dis/connections: Toward an Ontology of Broken Relationality

    Jenny Sundén, Jelisaveta Blagojević•ARTICLE•Configurations•2019

    Ideas of relationality have come to influence a wide range of theoretical fields. In this article, we develop an understanding of relationality as not necessarily something continuous and uninterrupted (as is often the case), but rather as something fundamentally shaped through breaks and interruptions. We work through notions of relational brokenness by "thinking with" the telephone as an intriguing relational technology, a material metaphor, an…

  • Inappropriate Laughter: Affective Homophily and the Unlikely Comedy of #MeToo

    Open Access•Jenny Sundén, Paasonen et al.•ARTICLE•Social Media + Society•2019•Cited by: 4•References: 16

    This article investigates the affective and ambiguous dynamics of feminist humor as an unexpected strategy of resistance in connection with #MeToo, asking what laughter may do to the sharpness of negative affect of shame and anger driving the movement. Our inquiry comes in three vignettes. First, we deploy Nanette-Hannah Gadsby's 2018 Netflix success heralded as the comedy of the #MeToo era-arguing that the uniform viral warmth surrounding the sh…

  • Platformed Sex Lives

    Open Access•Jenny Sundén, K Tiidenberg et al.•ARTICLE•AoIR Selected Papers of Internet…•2020

    This panel builds on a recently funded research project on the geopolitics of digital sexual cultures in Estonia, Sweden, and Finland (2020-2022) investigating three local online platforms devoted to communities around nudity and kink: iha.ee, darkside.se, and alastonsuomi.com. Our case studies are in a sense “edge cases” which partly move within sexual margins, making space for alternate understandings of platform sociability. Contra to the curr…

  • Space, Place and Location in Sexual Social Media

    Open Access•Jenny Sundén, K Tiidenberg et al.•ARTICLE•AoIR Selected Papers of Internet…•2021

    Contributing to the swiftly emerging field of the geographies of digital sexualities, this panel explores the geosocial and geopolitical dimensions of digital sexual cultures by zooming in on the connections between sexual practices, geographic imaginaries, and locally embedded social media platforms devoted to sexual expression. Building on case studies of an Estonian platform used primarily by those interested in group sex (LC, est. 2018), a Sw…

  • Isso é um absurdo! Sobre o humor feminista nas redes sociais

    Open Access•Jenny Sundén, Paasonen et al.•ARTICLE•Fronteiras - estudos midiáticos•2021

    Nas redes sociais, o humor feminista geralmente chama a atenção pela dinâmica com que aborda o gênero binário, do qual zomba, subverte e comenta. Com foco no Tumblr “Congrats, you have an all male panel”, no perfil “Man Who Has It All” no Twitter e do Facebook e no perfil do Twitter “Men Write Women”, este artigo observa como esses projetos reexecutam o poder assimétrico de gênero binário por meio da repetição e subversão, extraindo seu apelo da …

  • Shameless dicks: On male privilege, dick pic scandals, and public exposure

    Open Access•Paasonen, Susanna Paasonen et al.•ARTICLE•First Monday•2021

    Academic debates on shame and the involuntary networked circulation of naked pictures have largely focused on instances of hacked accounts of female celebrities, on revenge porn, and interconnected forms of slut-shaming. Meanwhile, dick pics have been predominantly examined as vehicles of sexual harassment within heterosexual contexts. Taking a somewhat different approach, this article examines leaked or otherwise involuntarily exposed dick pics …

  • We have tiny purses in our vaginas!!! #thanksforthat”: Absurdity as a feminist method of intervention

    Open Access•Jenny Sundén, Paasonen•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research Journal•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 4

    Purpose According to thesaurus definitions, the absurd translates as “ridiculously unreasonable, unsound, or incongruous”; “extremely silly; not logical and sensible”. As further indicated in the Latin root absurdus, “out of tune, uncouth, inappropriate, ridiculous,” humor in absurd registers plays with that which is out of harmony with both reason and decency. In this article, the authors make an argument for the absurd as a feminist method for …

  • Locating sex: Regional geographies of sexual social media

    Open Access•Jenny Sundén, Paasonen et al.•ARTICLE•Gender Place & Culture•2022•Cited by: 6•References: 12

    Contributing to the field of the geographies of digital sexualities, this article explores the geosocial dimensions of digital sexual cultures by analyzing three regionally operating, linguistically specific social media platforms devoted to sexual expression. Drawing on case studies of an Estonian platform used primarily for group sex, a Swedish platform for kink and BDSM, and a Finnish platform for nude self-expression, we ask how these contrib…

  • Digital Kink Opacity: Sexual Social Media Beyond Visibility and Comprehension

    Open Access•Jenny Sundén•ARTICLE•AoIR Selected Papers of Internet…•2023

    Building on and expanding discussions of the value of anonymity and pseudonymity in digital cultures in general, and in queer digital cultures in particular, this paper explores notions of opacity as modes of resistance to dominating regimes of visibility on and beyond social media platforms. Across queer, postcolonial and digital media theorizing, opacity provides a way of thinking through the tension between the visible and the invisible, chall…

  • Rethinking the Social in Social Media

    Open Access•Paasonen, Susanna Paasonen et al.•ARTICLE•AoIR Selected Papers of Internet…•2023

    This paper makes an argument for the value of including sexual sites in definitions and analyses of social media. Building on interview data (four developer interviews and 56 user interviews) from three North European sexual platforms (Darkside, Alastonsuomi and Libertine.Center) devoted to nudity, sex, and kink, it examines the implications of defining sex platforms as social media and the analytical avenues that the inclusion of sexual sites op…

  • “Digital kink obscurity: A sexual politics beyond visibility and comprehension”

    Open Access•Jenny Sundén•ARTICLE•Sexualities•2023

    Based on an interview-driven ethnographic study of the Swedish digital BDSM, fetish and kink platform Darkside, this article explores digital kink expressions at a moment when kink communities are both marginalized and seemingly mainstream, navigating a tricky balance between visibility and invisibility, intelligibility and unintelligibility. Across queer, postcolonial, and digital media theorizing, “opacity” provides a way of rethinking these te…

  • Play, secrecy and consent: Theorizing privacy breaches and sensitive data in the world of networked sex toys

    Open Access•Jenny Sundén•ARTICLE•Sexualities•2023

    Based on a new materialist analysis of “vibrant matter” to understand the liveliness of sexual objects in toy-based sexual play, in this article I investigate the politics of thinking digital technologies as operating partly beyond human forms of agency and control. I use as my core examples privacy breaches and data leaks in the world of networked sex toys – such as a vibrator which allegedly audio recorded its clients’ play sessions without exp…

  • About Sex, Open-Mindedness, and Cinnamon Buns: Exploring Sexual Social Media

    Open Access•Paasonen, Jenny Sundén et al.•ARTICLE•Social Media + Society•2023•Cited by: 4•References: 22

    General purpose social media platforms-often incited by American legislation-increasingly exclude sex from acceptable forms of sociality in the abstract name of user safety. This article analyzes interview data (four developer interviews and 56 user interviews) from three North European sexual platforms (Darkside, Alastonsuomi, and Libertine.Center) to explore what follows from including sexual sites in definitions and analyses of social media an…

  • Vanilla normies and fellow pervs: Boundary work on sexual platforms

    Open Access•K Tiidenberg, Paasonen et al.•ARTICLE•Sexualities•2023•Cited by: 4•References: 29

    Building on a study of three Nordic and Baltic digital sexual platforms, this article analyzes the perceptions of enjoyable sex and sexual belonging among 60 people, who self-identify as sexually liberal. In dialogue with Gayle Rubin's formative work on sexual hierarchies and "good sex," we explore our participants' complex and often ambiguous sexual boundary work to delineate liberated sex. Independent of particular preferences (non-monogamy, BD…

Sociology (27 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (23 works) · Gender Studies (17 works) · Computer Science (14 works) · Aesthetics (13 works) · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology (13 works) · Art (12 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Gender Studies (9 works)

Ethnos_APP • Open Source Project • MIT License • Frontend v2.0.0 • Privacy and Cookies • API Documentation: api.ethnos.app/docs • API Source Code: GitHub • DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17049435 • Frontend Source Code: GitHub • DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17050053 • cruz.rio.br • Expectantes Misericordiae