From declanm@netcom.com Thu Jul 20 09:34:45 1995 Return-Path: Received: from po7.andrew.cmu.edu by mail4.netcom.com (8.6.12/Netcom) id JAA28013; Thu, 20 Jul 1995 09:30:25 -0700 Received: (from postman@localhost) by po7.andrew.cmu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA13182; Thu, 20 Jul 1995 12:29:35 -0400 Received: via switchmail for fight-censorship+@andrew.cmu.edu; Thu, 20 Jul 1995 12:29:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from po5.andrew.cmu.edu via qmail ID ; Thu, 20 Jul 1995 12:28:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from netcom4.netcom.com (netcom4.netcom.com [192.100.81.107]) by po5.andrew.cmu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id MAA10705 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 1995 12:28:03 -0400 Received: by netcom4.netcom.com (8.6.12/Netcom) id JAA08857; Thu, 20 Jul 1995 09:26:39 -0700 Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 09:26:39 -0700 (PDT) From: D B McCullagh Sender: D B McCullagh Reply-To: D B McCullagh Subject: The FIRST study of "infohighway porn" To: fight-censorship@andrew.cmu.edu Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Status: RO X-Status: Following is an abstract from a paper by Michael Mehta, PhD. He's in the Environmental Policy Unit, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. (613) 545-6000 X5636 / (613) 545-6630 fax He says he's happy to discuss his findings and their implications. I don't believe the paper has been published yet, but it was presented publicly at a conference last year. Seems to me Rimm's wasn't the first study of "infohighway porn" after all. -Declan ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Abstract: This paper examines the nature and content of 150 randomly selected pornographic images available through newsgroups located on the Internet computer network. Using content analysis, we identify themes which appear most frequently, and explore differences in the type of material posted by commercial and non-commercial users. Results suggest that commercial vendors are more likely to post explicit pornographic material in public access newsgroups in order to attract new customers to their private, pay-per-use bulletin board services. X-Status: The other study was presented by Michael D. Mehta and Dwaine E. Plaza of York University's Department of Sociology at the "Symposium on Free Speech and Privacy in the Information Age." The conference was held at the University of Waterloo in November 1994. The paper is called: "A content analysis of pornographic images on the Internet." Jeffrey Shallit (shallit@graceland.uwaterloo.ca) at the University of Waterloo helped organize the conference. -Declan