{"product_id":"prison-media-isbn-9780262545495","title":"Prison Media","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow prisoners serve as media laborers, while the prison serves as a testing ground for new media technologies.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrisons 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? \u003ci\u003ePrison Media \u003c\/i\u003eforegrounds 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamining 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 \u003ci\u003ePrison Media \u003c\/i\u003ehelps us make sense of today’s carceral society.Preface ix\u003cbr\u003e1 Introduction: Why Prison Media Matter 1\u003cbr\u003e2 Penal Regimes and Prison Reforms: 1800-2000 21\u003cbr\u003e3 Made in Prison: Prison Media Work 37\u003cbr\u003e4 Building Prisons: Prison Media Architecture 71\u003cbr\u003e5 Imagining the Prison: Prison Media Technologies 109\u003cbr\u003e6 Conclusion: Prison Media and Mobile Incarceration 143\u003cbr\u003eNotes 161\u003cbr\u003eReferences 165\u003cbr\u003eIndex 183“\u003ci\u003ePrison Media\u003c\/i\u003e powerfully reveals how the modern penal system operates as a testbed for technology and workforce development that is deeply entangled with media and communication.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Lisa Parks, Distinguished Professor of Film and Media Studies, UC Santa Barbara\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A brilliant, historically rich entry point to a completely new field, \u003ci\u003ePrison Media\u003c\/i\u003e shows how in prison, the ‘normal’ is prepared, defined, and managed for wider circulation, with media as its key relay.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Nick Couldry, Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“The prison joins such well-known sites of media innovation as the lab, the office, and the hospital. \u003ci\u003ePrison Media\u003c\/i\u003e critically convicts and elegantly retheorizes our carceral society and media as one. Quite literally, captivating.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—John Durham Peters, María Rosa Menocal Professor of English and of Film and Media Studies, Yale University\u003c\/b\u003eAnne 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 \u003ci\u003eConvergence\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eInformation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCommunication \u0026amp; Society\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNew Media \u0026amp; Society\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFredrik 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 \u003ci\u003eConvergence\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEuropean Journal of Communication\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMedia, Culture \u0026amp; Society\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302554226917,"sku":"NP9780262545495","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262545495.jpg?v=1767735132","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/prison-media-isbn-9780262545495","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}