MDSA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Personalization, Liminality, Participatory Media
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Max and theodor, pleasure always means not to think about anything, to forget suffering even when it is shown. Media erotics explores the array of resistive pelasure that audiences derive from media by examining the various sensous, creative, and transgressive ways in which persons use and interpret media. Erotics or eroticism has to principle characteristics or dimensions, one involving prohibition, taboo, and transgression, and the other involving production, expenditure, and dissemination. Eroticism concerns the subject and her/his individual desres, and not simply an innate urge to reproduce. Resistance is any symbolic or matieral practice that challenges, subverts, or suspends the cultural codes, rules, or norms, which through their everyday operation create, sustain, and naturalize the prevailing social structure in a particular space and time. Resistance is contextual: time and place of an act is crucial to its status. Resistance is tactical : is an action or practice not a product or outcome.
