Introduction: Psychoanalysis, sexualities and networked media

Jacob Johanssen is Senior Lecturer in Communications at St. Mary’s University (London, UK). He is the author of Psychoanalysis and Digital Culture: Audiences, Social Media, and Big Data (Routledge, 2019), Fantasy, Online Misogyny and the Manosphere: Male Bodies of Dis/Inhibition (Routledge, 2021), and Event Horizon: Sexuality, Politics, Online Culture, and the Limits of Capitalism (with Bonni Rambatan, Zero Books, 2021). His research interests include psychoanalysis, sexuality and digital media, audience research, affect theories, psychosocial studies, and critical theory. He is Co-Editor of the Counterspace section of the journal Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society and a Founder Scholar of the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC). He sits on the executive committee of the Association for Psychosocial Studies (APS).