This research investigates the Victorian Parliament’s Inquiry into Sexting. This Inquiry was
the ... more This research investigates the Victorian Parliament’s Inquiry into Sexting. This Inquiry was the first in Australia to investigate the phenomenon of sexting. This research explores how the representation of the problem of sexting as being about young people expressing their sexuality through Information Communication Technologies, leading to them being charged with child pornography offences and registered as sex offenders was transformed into a representation of the problem of sexting as being about the non-consensual dissemination of a sext to third parties. Using Critical Discourse Analysis, the written submissions and oral testimonies provided by actors who engaged with the Inquiry were analysed to explore the way various actors represented and attempted to resolve the ‘problem’ of sexting by drawing on existing and new ideas about child protection, technologically facilitated sexual violence, and privacy. This analysis suggests that initially sexting amongst young people was considered to be the problem that needed to be ‘solved’ by the Inquiry. However, this understanding eventually gave way to a new representation of the problem, in which the behaviour of people who disseminate a sext without consent became the focus of concern. The significance of this research is in explaining how the Inquiry yielded recommendations that problematise sexting as technologically facilitated sexual violence.
This research investigates the Victorian Parliament’s Inquiry into Sexting. This Inquiry was
the ... more This research investigates the Victorian Parliament’s Inquiry into Sexting. This Inquiry was the first in Australia to investigate the phenomenon of sexting. This research explores how the representation of the problem of sexting as being about young people expressing their sexuality through Information Communication Technologies, leading to them being charged with child pornography offences and registered as sex offenders was transformed into a representation of the problem of sexting as being about the non-consensual dissemination of a sext to third parties. Using Critical Discourse Analysis, the written submissions and oral testimonies provided by actors who engaged with the Inquiry were analysed to explore the way various actors represented and attempted to resolve the ‘problem’ of sexting by drawing on existing and new ideas about child protection, technologically facilitated sexual violence, and privacy. This analysis suggests that initially sexting amongst young people was considered to be the problem that needed to be ‘solved’ by the Inquiry. However, this understanding eventually gave way to a new representation of the problem, in which the behaviour of people who disseminate a sext without consent became the focus of concern. The significance of this research is in explaining how the Inquiry yielded recommendations that problematise sexting as technologically facilitated sexual violence.
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the first in Australia to investigate the phenomenon of sexting. This research explores how
the representation of the problem of sexting as being about young people expressing their
sexuality through Information Communication Technologies, leading to them being charged
with child pornography offences and registered as sex offenders was transformed into a
representation of the problem of sexting as being about the non-consensual dissemination of a
sext to third parties. Using Critical Discourse Analysis, the written submissions and oral
testimonies provided by actors who engaged with the Inquiry were analysed to explore the
way various actors represented and attempted to resolve the ‘problem’ of sexting by drawing
on existing and new ideas about child protection, technologically facilitated sexual violence,
and privacy. This analysis suggests that initially sexting amongst young people was
considered to be the problem that needed to be ‘solved’ by the Inquiry. However, this
understanding eventually gave way to a new representation of the problem, in which the
behaviour of people who disseminate a sext without consent became the focus of
concern. The significance of this research is in explaining how the Inquiry yielded
recommendations that problematise sexting as technologically facilitated sexual violence.
the first in Australia to investigate the phenomenon of sexting. This research explores how
the representation of the problem of sexting as being about young people expressing their
sexuality through Information Communication Technologies, leading to them being charged
with child pornography offences and registered as sex offenders was transformed into a
representation of the problem of sexting as being about the non-consensual dissemination of a
sext to third parties. Using Critical Discourse Analysis, the written submissions and oral
testimonies provided by actors who engaged with the Inquiry were analysed to explore the
way various actors represented and attempted to resolve the ‘problem’ of sexting by drawing
on existing and new ideas about child protection, technologically facilitated sexual violence,
and privacy. This analysis suggests that initially sexting amongst young people was
considered to be the problem that needed to be ‘solved’ by the Inquiry. However, this
understanding eventually gave way to a new representation of the problem, in which the
behaviour of people who disseminate a sext without consent became the focus of
concern. The significance of this research is in explaining how the Inquiry yielded
recommendations that problematise sexting as technologically facilitated sexual violence.