Project Details
Description
Within the context of adolescents’ widespread use of digital technologies, this project aims to identify the ideas about sex and relationships young people encounter through online pornography. Many teenagers watch far more pornography, at a much younger age, than their parents realise (McCallum, 2023), raising concerns that it shapes their views on sexual relationships and gender equality (APPG, 2023). Evidence-based literacy programs are urgently needed, but first, we must ask: what messages does online pornography convey?
This project answers this question through an AI-driven visual analysis of pornographic images and a computational and qualitative analysis of the language used on a major pornography website. In addition to analysing the most frequently viewed videos, titles, and tags, it will examine comment sections to identify the most dominant discourses on this widely available platform.
| Status | Finished |
|---|---|
| Effective start/end date | 1/10/24 → 31/03/25 |
UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This project contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Keywords
- Pornography
- Violence Against Women
- AI
- Corpus Linguistics
- Discourse Analysis
- Feminism
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