Doctorial Candidate Seeking 10 to 15 Cammers for Interview

VENICE, CA – Doctoral candidate Kavita Ilona Nayar is looking for 10 to 15 cam models for a paid study!  Working in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst, she’s putting together a study on cam models. Her work is ongoing, with interviews conducted remotely lasting 45 to 60 minutes.

Nayar is offering $25 for their time. She is open to interviewing cam models of all nationalities but is specifically looking to hear from cam models based in United States.

“It’s important to hear from a range of voices, to represent the community as best I can,” Nayar explains. “If you have any ideas of different experiences you think would be useful to have in my sample, that would be really great. Thanks so much.”

Interested applicants can contact Kavita by email her at [email protected] or by DMing her on Twitter @CamModelStudy.

Learn more about Kavita’s work at http://kavitailonanayar.com. For a published paper from an academic journal on camming she wrote, visit https://umass.academia.edu/KavitaNayar.

ABOUT KAVITA ILONA NAYAR

Kavita Ilona Nayar is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst, where she is completing a dissertation on digital industries of sexual entertainment and leisure, with a focus on women who navigate these spaces for work and/or pleasure. Read more here.

In prior research, Nayar has examined the divergent ways viewers perceive practices of self-branding and transformational arcs on reality TV; the design and efficacy of media literacy initiatives in K-12 educational contexts; and the cultural politics of collective memory in ruin —> recovery narratives about Detroit that circulated after the 2008 financial crisis and auto industry bailout.  Her work has been published in Feminist Media Studies, the Journal of Gender Studies, the Communication Review, and the Journal of Popular Culture.

Nayar has held teaching appointments in the Department of Communication at University of Massachusetts-Amherst, the Department of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College, and the Department of Media Studies in the School of Professional Studies at New York University. She has taught undergraduate courses on Consumer Culture, Digital Media & Culture, Video Games & Culture, and Reality Television, among others.

Nayar holds an M.A. in Media Studies and Production and certificate in Women’s Studies from Temple University and a B.A. in Communication Studies from the University of Michigan.