What is the refined research question that you are setting out to answer? (Please be specific in your research topic)
After I refined my research topic, I have conform that my research topic is “ How people consume the pornographic media”. I would like to find out how Pornographic Media can catch people’s attention in resent time.
How does this develop themes and debates explored within the lectures of this module? (Please put down the revised short introduction to your project based on the one in blog 2. Remember that the introduction should include the purpose of your research project, significance and key concept(s) that may be useful for your analysis.)
In resent days, sexual culture is more opener that people thought. As long as the Technology had developed, people get browsing the pornographic with their computer, tablet or even their smart phone. According to this situation, I would like to find out how the people who did watch or to make contact with the pornographic media.
Pornographic media isn’t the mainstream culture, so i identify that as a subculture. and also the pornographic media the one of the product produced by the sexual culture, i believed that it’s also included the theory of generation identity. How people will think about sex after they had read the pornographic media. Will they are going be a homosexual guy after they read some homosexual porn? Or will people getting more violence than before after they read some rape porn? After this research, i hope i can find out the relationship between people and pornographic media.
What critical methodologies are you going to use? How are you going to produce the evidence you’ll need to answer your research question?
Based on my research topic, I will use qualitative research method to analysis the answers. Because my research is wanted to find out how people consuming pornographic media. That’s mean different people will give different answer to me. so I think quantitative research method is the best way to find out the research answers. In view of this, I will in-depth interview 3 males and 3 females as my target interviewees. They are form different ages group and they were in different relationship status, some of them were single, some of them were in a relationship with someone.
References:
Allen, M. et. at. 1995. “A Meta-Analysis Summarizing the Effects of Pornography: Aggression After Exposure.” Human Communication Research. 22: 2: 258-283.
Brod, H. 1991. “Eros Thanatized: Pornography and Male Sexuality.” in M. S. Kimmel, ed., Men Confront Pornography. New York: Meridian.
Beneke, T. 1991. “Intrusive Images and Subjectified Bodies: Notes on Visual Heterosexual Porn.” in M. S. Kimmel, ed., Men Confront Pornography. New York: Meridian.
Cowie, E. 1993. “Pornography and Fantasy: Psychoanalytic Perspectives.” in L. Segal, ed., Sex Exposed: Sexuality and the Pornography Debate.
Itzin, C. 1992. “Pornography and the Social Construction of Sexual Inequality.” in C. Itzin, ed., Pornography: Women, Violence, and Civil Liberties. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Kimmel, M. S. 1991. “Introduction: Guilty Pleasures—Pornography in Men’s Lives.” in M. S. Kimmel, ed., Men Confront Pornography. New York: Meridian.
Dear Patrick, As per our conversation, please start doing your interviews. The research question can simply be "How do local people consume Japanese pornographic media?" The list of articles at the end is relevant but you need to find more in the area of media and cultural studies. The one on pscyhoanalysis (by Cowie), meta-analysis (by Allen) and eros (by Brod) may not be manageable as they are from other disciplines. Remember to take a look of the article recommended to you. In fact, a cultural theoretical framework is required for your work. Please share with me the preliminary findings in the next blog.
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