Marije Janssen was one of the research assistents for the Art and Politics of Netporn.
Marije is a fifth year student at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Utrecht. In 2004 she graduated as Bachelor in the Arts, with a specialisation in Mediastudies. As part of the masterprogram New Media & Digital Culture she works as an intern at the Institute for Network Cultures for the conference ‘The Art & Politics of Netporn’. As a part of this conference she will also start her research for her Master’s thesis on the cyberfeminist perspective on the representation of the female sexual identity in online communities. But next to that, Marije has a broad interest in everything connected to new media, from the art of computergames to digital copyrights. But after completing several courses at the faculty of Women’s Studies, she has specialized in cyberfeminist views on the relationship between new media and identity.