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This page includes information about my research into film, cyberculture and German Cinema. Here you will find links to various publications on popular culture, contemporary German media, film history and cultural studies.As a film critic, researcher and internationally recognised author, I can help you write or revise your current proposal, submission or article. Whether your next project is creative or commercial, I can provide you with professional research assistance. I have extensive experience as an editor, consultant, translator and cultural commentator. I provide these services on a freelance basis.
To date I have written commissioned articles, acted as consultant and/or presented public addresses for the Australian Film Institute, The Festival of German Cinema, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, the Melbourne International Film Festival, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Goethe Institut, the University of Melbourne, the Australian Psychology Association and the International Association of Media Analysts.
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Next Book Synopsis:
Virtually Yours: Romance and Ruin in Cyberspace
by Leonie Naughton.
Technology and sex make for lucrative and even enticing partners. Former President of the United States, Bill Clinton, was documented as practising telephone sex with embarrassing frequency. Apparently more than 92 million calls are made to 900 telephone sex lines in the US annually (and they’re not all from the White House). Whereas Americans may “tend to be puritans” in public, in private “there are few activities that they won’t enthusiastically countenance,” something the adult video industry has capitalized on [1] for decades. If video and home movie cameras were a boon for porn throughout North America and the rest of the developed world during the 1980s and 1990s, the Internet is the major mode of delivery for consumption and dissemination of porn and “adult entertainment” in the new millennium.Seeking romance online is another startlingly popular phenomenon. In one month alone, in June 2002, over 18 million people in the US visited online personal sites, and in the same year more than 34 million Americans visited matchmaking services on the World Wide Web. In August 2003, 40 million Americans (half the country’s single population) visited virtual dating services.Virtually Yours: Romance and Ruin in Cyberspace addresses the whole area of love and matchmaking online.
Chat rooms and virtual communities are a haven for those with romantic yearnings. Romantic dalliance and sexualised encounters, whether they be inadvertent or deliberately sought, are commonplace in cyberspace. Online encounters are often characterized by a lack of inhibition and by sensations of intimacy and playful affection, which tend to make them erotically charged. This may lead to couples engaging in Cybersex, which is not only widely practised online, but is sought by some with predatory zeal.
Of course love online, like any romantic pursuit, has its perils and delights. And that is the focus of Virtually Yours - romantic encounters initiated in cyberspace. The book outlines the factors that contribute to the licentious nature of much online interaction. I present a series of love affairs, most of which shifted from cyberspace (virtual communities, chat rooms, online matchmaking) into the physical world. These tales are drawn from more than three years participation in and observation of online interaction.
Individuals from diverse socio-economic groups are featured. They include housewives, students, blue-collar workers, single parents, and middle class professionals from the US, Canada, the UK and Australia. In some cases the stories are of adultery, duplicity and deceit. Others tell of international whirlwind romances that have led to migration and plans of marriage.
No matter how bizarre or outrageous these stories may seem, they are completely authentic. These cyber tales are selected on the basis of their capacity to amuse, fascinate, entertain and even appal. Many are comedies of manners, error and misunderstanding. One or two recount experiences of unmitigated disaster. Others are stories of romantic idealism and optimism.
Copyright (c) Leonie Naughton. All rights reserved. 2003-2004.
Please contact me with expressions of interest, further information, access to, or publication of this MS. leonienaughton@ozemail.com.au
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