Delphine DiTecco
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About
Dr. Delphine DiTecco is a leading critical scholar at the intersection of technology, gender, and labor, whose work interrogates the cultural and political narratives surrounding sex robots and sex work. Her research primarily focuses on how emerging technologies, rather than liberating marginalized communities, often reproduce existing systems of stigma and control. DiTecco’s most influential contribution is her 2022 paper, “New Technology, Same Old Stigma: Media Narratives of Sex Robots and Sex Work,” which has garnered 9 citations for its incisive analysis of how media discourse frames sex robots in ways that reinforce the criminalization and social exclusion of sex workers. Extending this work, her 2025 study, “Sex robot brothels: backlash, by-laws, and sex work within the queer inhuman fold,” explores the legal and social backlash against sex robot brothels, situating these debates within queer and posthumanist frameworks. Her 2020 thesis, which laid the groundwork for these analyses, was among the first to apply critical discourse analysis and sex-positive theory to the topic, directly challenging the technological displacement narrative. By centering the voices and realities of sex workers, DiTecco’s scholarship offers a vital corrective to techno-utopian visions, making her a key voice in contemporary feminist media studies and critical technology studies.
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