Book Launch: Mainstreaming Porn – Sexual Integrity and the Law Online
Join Schulich Law Professor and 2024 Dorothy Killam Fellow Dr. Elaine Craig for the launch of her new book .
Assistant Professor Suzie Dunn, acting director of the law school's Law and Technology Institute (LATI), will be featured as a discussant.
The book launch is part of LATI's new Tech Tok series, a six-part multi-disciplinary and inter-faculty speaker series that aims to provide meaningful opportunities to engage in discussion on current and emerging technology law and policy issues.
About the Book:
The ubiquity of streaming sites such as Pornhub has transformed the social role of sexually explicit content today. Online porn is no longer a shady corner of the internet; it is mainstream. Its production, commodification, and consumption on data-driven online platforms has changed – and is changing – our personal relationships, social and legal systems, and sexual norms.
Without demonizing pornography or its consumption, Dr. Craig makes a powerful argument for applying legal mechanisms to corporate-owned online platforms while offering a sober evaluation of the limits of the law in governing pervasive cultural norms and social understandings of sexuality.
Categories
Research, Faculty Interest, Student Interest, Staff Interest, Law & Technology
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Location
Weldon Law Building, Room W104
6061 University Ave.
Additional Information
Free public event.
For ages 18+.