Prison Media

How prisoners serve as media laborers, while the prison serves as a testing ground for new media technologies.Prisons are not typically known for cutting-edge media technologies. Yet from photography in the nineteenth century to AI-enhanced tracking cameras today, there is a long history of prisons...

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Autori principali: Kaun, Anne, Stiernstedt, Fredrik
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Pubblicazione: The MIT Press 2023
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description How prisoners serve as media laborers, while the prison serves as a testing ground for new media technologies.Prisons are not typically known for cutting-edge media technologies. Yet from photography in the nineteenth century to AI-enhanced tracking cameras today, there is a long history of prisons being used as a testing ground for technologies that are later adopted by the general public. If we recognize the prison as a central site for the development of media technologies, how might that change our understanding of both media systems and carceral systems? Prison Media foregrounds the ways in which the prison is a model space for the control and transmission of information, a place where media is produced, and a medium in its own right. Examining the relationship between media and prison architecture, as surveillance and communication technologies are literally built into the facilities, this study also considers the ways in which prisoners themselves often do hard labor as media workers—labor that contributes in direct and indirect ways to the latest technologies developed and sold by multinational corporations like Amazon. There is a fine line between ankle monitors and Fitbits, and Prison Media helps us make sense of today's carceral society.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1115912024-03-28T18:41:50Z Prison Media Kaun, Anne Stiernstedt, Fredrik Prison prison culture media culture media technologies technologies of incarceration prison media media infrastructures Scandinavian exceptionalism Nordic welfare state thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies::JBCT3 Media studies: advertising and society thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKV Crime and criminology::JKVQ Offenders::JKVQ2 Juvenile offenders How prisoners serve as media laborers, while the prison serves as a testing ground for new media technologies.Prisons are not typically known for cutting-edge media technologies. Yet from photography in the nineteenth century to AI-enhanced tracking cameras today, there is a long history of prisons being used as a testing ground for technologies that are later adopted by the general public. If we recognize the prison as a central site for the development of media technologies, how might that change our understanding of both media systems and carceral systems? Prison Media foregrounds the ways in which the prison is a model space for the control and transmission of information, a place where media is produced, and a medium in its own right. Examining the relationship between media and prison architecture, as surveillance and communication technologies are literally built into the facilities, this study also considers the ways in which prisoners themselves often do hard labor as media workers—labor that contributes in direct and indirect ways to the latest technologies developed and sold by multinational corporations like Amazon. There is a fine line between ankle monitors and Fitbits, and Prison Media helps us make sense of today's carceral society. 2023-07-31T10:54:22Z 2023-07-31T10:54:22Z 2023 book ONIX_20230731_9780262374347_25 9780262374347 9780262545495 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/111591 eng Distribution Matters image/jpeg n/a https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/13761.001.0001 The MIT Press The MIT Press 10.7551/mitpress/13761.001.0001 10.7551/mitpress/13761.001.0001 ae0cf962-f685-4933-93d1-916defa5123d 9780262374347 9780262545495 The MIT Press 208 Cambridge open access
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