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jQuery('head').append('div#content { font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; }') Methods for analysis of publicly available porn data via an exploration of trans performance. Max Schaffer (2019) (they/them/their) Harvard University Hxstory and Gender Studies Abstract: This project aims to exemplify methods for public porn research while generating analysis on the state of modern "adult" media and the evolving existences of trans performers. It tackles questions of data-oversight, algorithmic bias, digital consent, and gender identity in the rapidly changing pornographic world--and hopes to offer possible actions towards a more equitable streaming-future. These issues exist not simply as problems of the "NSFW" sphere, but as significant pieces of much larger concerns around surveillance, privacy, and economic exploitation. In order to better understand the pornographic world we consume & populate, we must cultivate more accessible public data and discourse, and take active roles…