Living Information Slides of Lectures on Media Love and Sex

Deck of lectures of the University of Amsterdam undergraduate course Living Information., focusing on how we use media to find love, what media show us about love, and how we love media.

1. Living Information Love Life

2. “The erotic escapes. Shame and reason conspire to repress it. The body disappears behind the curtain of the mind.” Roger Silverstone

3. media as practice mediation mediatization

4. “So should you use this strategy in your search for love? That’s up to you. Real life is much more messy than we’ve assumed.”

5. “In what other industry is a happy customer bad for business?”

6. “Instead of seeing dangers and disasters everywhere, the various things people do when enacting their sexual desires in media – including lurking, seducing, up/downloading, chatting, mutual masturbation, dating and orgy-swinging – can also be celebrated as playful rituals of freedom and excess.”

7. media as practice mediation mediatization

8. 1968

9. 1973

10. 1993

11. 2013

12. media as practice mediation mediatization

13. “If networked love is to be defined as a sense of balance that leads to moments of fleeting happiness, then that involves, among other things, an artful composition of the digital artifacts that saturate the self with the potential for social contact.”

14. Living Information Love Life