{"links":{"self":"http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DE260100267"},"data":{"type":"grant-details","id":"DE260100267","attributes":{"code":"DE260100267","administering-organisation":"Monash University","announcement-administering-organisation":"Monash University","scheme-name":"Discovery Early Career Researcher Award","grant-status":"Active","funding-commencement-year":2026,"years-funded":3,"project-start-date":"2026-07-20","anticipated-end-date":"2030-04-18","grant-summary":"Social, ethical and regulatory challenges in the social media porn industry. This project aims to map the social, ethical, and regulatory challenges for creators, audiences, and intermediaries in Australia’s emerging social media pornography industry. It will generate new insights into social media porn work, using qualitative methods that centre the experiences of porn creators and audiences. Expected outcomes include revealing the role of social media porn in Australia’s digital economy, and equipping policymakers and porn creators with information on the current landscape in Australia. This should provide significant benefits for government and the industry seeking to balance personal freedoms, economic growth, and legal oversight, as well as understanding porn creation as a form of digital sexual labour.","funding-current":529829.00,"funding-at-announcement":525650,"investigators-current":[{"title":"Dr","firstName":"Emily","familyName":"van der Nagel","roleName":"Discovery Early Career Researcher Award","roleCode":"DECRA","isFellowship":true,"orcidIdentifier":"0000-0003-2994-4542 "}],"investigators-at-announcement":[{"title":"Dr","firstName":"Emily","familyName":"van der Nagel","roleName":"Discovery Early Career Researcher Award","roleCode":"DECRA","isFellowship":true,"orcidIdentifier":"0000-0003-2994-4542 "}],"organisations-current":[{"organisationName":"Monash University","roleName":"Administering Organisation","state":"VIC"}],"organisations-at-announcement":[{"organisationName":"Monash University","roleName":"Administering Organisation","state":"VIC"}],"field-of-research":[{"isPrimary":true,"code":"4701","name":"Communication and Media Studies","type":"FOR20"},{"isPrimary":false,"code":"470102","name":"Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies","type":"FOR20"}],"socio-economic-objective":[{"code":"220502","name":"Internet, Digital and Social Media","type":"SEO20"}],"international-collaboration":[],"lief-register":[],"achievement-summary":null,"national-interest-test-statement":"This project is the first comprehensive study into social media porn in Australia. We know that most Australians consume porn, and that social media porn creation is an increasing choice of work for young women in particular. But little is known about how it is created and sold through emerging porn-based social media services, such as OnlyFans. Investigating the experiences of social media porn creators, consumers, and intermediaries (including platforms and management agencies) will provide a knowledge base from which to move us past moral panics to think critically about the social, ethical, and regulatory challenges of this significant media sector. This project will equip policymakers and the porn creation industry with information on the current landscape in Australia. The research outputs will include scholarly journal articles and a scholarly book, as well as an open-access report for policymakers, journalists, and educators that will reveal and analyse the implications of this remunerated yet stigmatised labour. The report will inform policy on how Australians are taking advantage of new opportunities in the digital economy while balancing personal freedoms, economic growth, and legal oversight."}}}