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This joint book project with Susanna Paasonen<\/a> and Kylie Jarrett<\/a> was published by MIT Press in October 2019. You can get copies here<\/a>. It offers an exploration of how and why social media content is tagged as \u201cnot safe for work\u201d and an argument against conflating sexual content with risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hashtag #NSFW (not safe for work) acts as both a warning and an invitation. NSFW tells users, \u201cWe dare you to click on this link! And by the way, don\u2019t do it until after work!\u201d Unlike the specificity of movie and television advisories (\u201csuggestive dialogue,\u201d \u201csexual content\u201d), NSFW signals, nonspecifically, sexually explicit content that ranges from nude selfies to pornography. NSFW looks at how and why social media content is tagged \u201cnot safe\u201d and shows how this serves to conflate sexual content and risk. The authors argue that the notion of \u201cunsafety\u201d extends beyond the risk of losing one\u2019s job or being embarrassed at work to an unspecified sense of risk attached to sexually explicit media content and sexual communication in general. The authors examine NSFW practices of tagging and flagging on a range of social media platforms; online pornography and its dependence on technology; user-generated NSFW content\u2014in particular, the dick pic and associated issues of consent, desire, agency, and social power; the deployment of risqu\u00e9 humor in the workplace; and sexist and misogynist online harassment that functions as an enforcer of inequalities. They argue against the categorical effacement of sexual content by means of an all-purpose hashtag and urge us to shift considerations of safety from pictorial properties to issues of context and consent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This joint book project with Susanna Paasonen and Kylie Jarrett was published by MIT Press in October 2019. You can get copies here. It offers an exploration of how and why social media content is tagged as \u201cnot safe for work\u201d and an argument against conflating sexual content with risk. The hashtag #NSFW (not safe for work) acts as both […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":1406,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-536","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nSex, Humor and Risk in Social Media - The NSFW Project - Centre for Research on Inclusive Society<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The hashtag #NSFW (not safe for work) acts as both a warning and an invitation. NSFW tells users, \u201cWe dare you to click on this link! 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