BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.2//EN TZID:America/Toronto X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VEVENT UID:82@sds.utoronto.ca DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20220224T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20220224T190000 DTSTAMP:20220610T230655Z URL:https://sds.utoronto.ca/events/february-sex-salon-hot-tub-streams-wet- media-dreams/ SUMMARY:February Sex Salon: Hot Tub Streams & Wet Media Dreams DESCRIPTION:A recording of the event is now available on the Sex Salon Yout ube Channel.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/wWn3rMPVW_s\n\nThe Sex Salon Event Series is excited to announce our upcoming February 2022 event: "Hot Tub Streams &\; Wet Media Dreams: A Thought Pool on the Hydraulic Technopolitics o f Sex\, Games &\; Twitch.tv"\n\n“[B]eing found to be sexy by others i s not against our rules\,” declares Twitch.tv’s community blog for the 2021 debut of their latest content category\, “Pools\, Hot Tubs &\; Beaches.” Drawn in this passive position\, self-sexualized creators on T witch are essentialized as perpetually vulnerable to both GamerGate-style harassment campaigns and also the whims of attire and obscenity moderation on the world’s largest platform for live video and gaming entertainment . “Hot tub streaming\,” and the backlash it sparked\, reveals the auto nomies at stake when the intimate labour broadcasting oneself online clash es with sexist attitudes in platformed leisure cultures. As a working grou p of scholars from digital gaming and platform studies\, we convene to dis cuss Hot Tub streaming as a pivotal boundary object in the technopolitics of moderation. We offer “wetness” as a powerful framework to decipher the interplays of sex\, leisure\, and identity that lubricate the wider pl atform economy.\n\nFrom “streaming” to “the Internet as tubes\,” a quatic metaphors are historically central to conceptualizations of digital technology. Hot Tub streams literalize the erotic work that intermingles the controlling and hydraulic imaginaries of the wet\, wide web. Reflectin g the fluid and ludic nature of this topic\, we invite this Zoom discussio n to be iterative. Five members will narrate their encounters with Hot Tub e streaming &\; what their work in games brings to the topic of erotic leisure moderation. We then ask our guests: Can digital media’s “wet ” history teach platform users and policymakers to be better (or product ively worse) players with each other?\n\nABOUT OUR SPEAKERS\n\nBo Ruberg ( they/them) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Film and Media S tudies at UC Irvine. Their research explores gender and sexuality in digit al cultures with a focus on queerness and video games.\n\nChristopher J. P ersaud is a PhD student at the Annenberg School for Communication and Jour nalism at USC. His work has been published in First Monday\, Social Media &\; Society and other venues. His work explores sexuality\, race\, gend er as entangled with platform governance and content moderation.\n\nAmanda L.L. Cullen (she/her) is a PhD candidate in the Department of Informatics at UC Irvine. Her work has been published in Critical Studies in Media Co mmunication and Feminist Media Studies. Her research focuses on women as p layers and professionals on video game live streaming platforms.\n\nAriann a Gass (she/her) Is a PhD candidate at the University of Chicago's Departm ent of English. Her work explores players\, texts and community behavior.\ n\nChristine Tran (they/she) is a PhD researcher at UofT's Faculty of Info rmation. Their work has appeared in Communication\, Culture &\; Critiqu e and The Canadian Journal of Communication. They are Massey College Junio r Fellow whose work explores the livestreaming of domesticity. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://sds.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/Sex-S alon-February-2022.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20211107T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR