VENICE, Calif.—Doctoral candidate Kavita Ilona Nayar is looking for 10 to 15 cam models to participate a paid study. Working in the Department of Communications 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 at [email protected] or by DMing her on Twitter: @CamModelStudy.
Learn more about her work at KavitaIlonaNayar.com. For a published paper written by Nayar about camming for an academic journal, click here.
Nayar 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. 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.
