Prison Media: Incarceration and the Infrastructures of Work and Technology - Couverture souple

Kaun, Anne; Stiernstedt, Fredrik

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0262545497 ISBN 13 : 9780262545495

Editeur : The MIT Press, 2023

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Anne Kaun is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Södertörn University in Stockholm. Her research on such topics as mediated temporalities and algorithmic culture has appeared in numerous journals, including Convergence, Information, Communication & Society, and New Media & Society.

Fredrik Stiernstedt is Associate Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Södertörn University in Stockholm. His research on media and the labor market and the relationship between social class and media has appeared in such journals as Convergence, European Journal of Communication, and Media, Culture & Society.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The MIT Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0262545497
• ISBN 13: 9780262545495
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
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