TY - JOUR
AU1 - Hanson, Ellis
AB -  The South Atlantic Quarterly 110:3, DOI 10.1215/00382876-1275743 © 2011 Duke University Press 584 The South Atlantic Quarterly • billion, only about two billion are using the Internet, and the mere halfbillion or so currently on Facebook are a privileged, if not always contented, minority. I speak of this shift knowing that English remains the lingua franca of the Internet, even though it is not the native language of most of the people online. Nevertheless, if I had to pick a year for this shift, it would be 1996, a pivotal time for exploring the erotic potential of the Internet and for being scandalized by it: 1. In 1996, America Online opened its Instant Messaging and Buddy List options to all subscribers, and I was assailed by my first Buddy, a fellow subscriber of indeterminate sex, unknown to me, residing in a distant state, as I gathered from the profile, which was both too coy and too candid. 2. In 1996, we could log on to JenniCam, whose eponymous performance artist mounted an increasing number of webcams in an increasing number of private spaces in her dorm room and other apartments, so that we could watch, and eventually pay to watch, 
TI - The History of Digital Desire, vol. 1: An Introduction
JF - South Atlantic Quarterly
DO - 10.1215/00382876-1275743
DA - 2011-07-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/duke-university-press/the-history-of-digital-desire-vol-1-an-introduction-D90R38qPhv
SP - 583
VL - 110
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -