Saturday 11 August 2007

Porn: no-one in Web 2.0 wants to talk about it

Although a taboo subject, pornography was responsible for driving many technological developments in Web 1.0 that include video on demand (VOD).

Web 1.0 is characterised by push content, top-down authority and control. Web 2.0 on the other hand is characterised by interactivity, empowerment, collaboration, shared knowledge networks and community building.

More on why porn lags behind from Wired here.

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I am director of the Media and Persuasive Communication (MPC) network at Bangor University where I also lecture on political-economy of the media. I am currently working on a book provisionally titled Deconstructing Privacy for Peter Lang and leading two empirical projects in connection with privacy perception and the use of new media for smoking cessation. I am author of Creativity and Advertising: Affect, Events and Process (Routledge, 2013); The Mood of Information: A Critique of Behavioural Advertising (Continuum, 2011); and Digital Advertising (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2009). Please contact me at mcstay@bangor.ac.uk if you are interested in Ph.D supervision or consultancy services.