"Know the Difference": A Comparison of Community-Led Erotic Knowledge Organization
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https://doi.org/10.7152/nasko.v7i1.95652Abstract
This paper describes emergent research comparing the classification practices among two online platforms for creative and erotic works: Archive of Our Own (AO3; archiveofourown.org), an expansive fan-run repository for transformative works like fanfiction, and E-Hentai (EH), a platform that hosts (pirated) sexually explicit hentai manga (i.e. traditionally published and distributed erotic graphic novels) alongside doujinshi (a Japanese word meaning "self-published works," here referring to largely erotic/pornographic material). Using phronetic analysis, we examine these platforms' tagging guidelines as well as a selection of tags used by both platforms to explore the structures of their differing folksonomies and the abilities they afford authors and/or community members to articulate expressions of gender, sex, sexuality, and (in)human bodies.Downloads
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2025-09-05
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