• DOI:10.1080/14680777.2017.1303622
Corpus ID: 151835520

Working it: the professionalization of amateurism in digital adult entertainment

@article{Nayar2017WorkingIT,
  title={Working it: the professionalization of amateurism in digital adult entertainment},
  author={K. I. Nayar},
  journal={Feminist Media Studies},
  year={2017},
  volume={17},
  pages={473 - 488}
}

K. I. Nayar

Published 2017

Sociology

Feminist Media Studies

Abstract This article examines a sector of professional amateur work for women in the digital industry for adult entertainment known as “adult webcam modeling” (AWM). Through a selection of narratives, this paper explores the gendered meanings of AWM and the values women derive from their “amateur” sexual content creation. I draw particular attention to the complex union of professional and amateur roles and relations in the strategies women adopt to succeed in these spaces. On one level, they… CONTINUE READING

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