Webcam broadcasting requires private space, excluding those who share Internet access

Evidence

Perhaps most tellingly, I have yet to come across a camgirl who doesn’t have access to a private room for broadcasting. This last factor may help explain why I had particular trouble locating women in places such as the Middle East (excepting Israel) and Africa (excepting South Africa), as these regions tend to have public telecenters rather than private Internet connections. — Theresa M. Senft, Camgirls, 88

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the material conditions behind who can participate in networked performance — the private room as infrastructure for self-broadcast, echoing questions of who gets to have private interior space. — connects to: Protecting minors via IP geofencing also restricts consenting adults — Tarleton Gillespie, Custodians of the Internet: Platforms,…, 577
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how did early women webcasters from shared households or telecenters ever manage it, if at all? Does the private-room requirement hold for cam men?

Broader Connections

• Protecting minors via IP geofencing also restricts consenting adults #complicates (0.75) — Tarleton Gillespie, Custodians of the Internet, 577