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Miłość jako gadżet na telefon
Love as a phone gadget

Author(s): Magdalena Roszczynialska
Subject(s): Communication studies, Sociology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie
Keywords: love discourse;pornography;mobile phone;media convergence

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses visual representations of eroticism in commercial media content formobile phones, ranging language-wise from pornographic to infantile. The author considersit as a discursive form in which both domination of verbal elements over visual ones andconsumer's desire over satisfaction could be pointed out. The article notes the alienatingdimension of pornography in the era of media convergence.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 146-155
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish