Captive audience: media, masculinity, and power in prisons

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This book is concerned with the media's role in everyday life, power relations and the construction of masculine identities in the context of prisons. It is based upon unique research into the nature, impact and consequences of a situation where most prisoners in English prisons have access to some media resource, whether radio or television, or with communal or individual access to it. Captive Audience charts for the first time the way in which prisons use media in coping -- or failing to cope…

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Full title :Captive audience : media, masculinity, and power in prisons / Yvonne Jewkes.

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Publication Date:2002.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Willan Pub
Place of Publication:Cullompton, Devon
Language:eng
Publication Date:2002.

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Description:1 ressource en ligne (xiii, 210 pages)

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ISBN:9781135987756, 1135987750, 9781843924258, 1843924250
oclc:on1004001996
LC Classification:HV9647
Dewey Decimal:365.660941

Introduction : prisons media and everyday life -- Prison pain and indentity : a review of the literature -- Identity self and construction of masculity -- Research context and methodology -- The microsocial contexts of media use -- The meso-sphere of culture interaction and hyper-masculinity -- The macrosocial institutional sphere -- Conclusion : the paradoxical power of media in prisons.

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Great Britain Masculinité -- Grande-Bretagne Masculinity Masculinity -- Great Britain mass media Mass media -- Great Britain Médias -- Grande-Bretagne Prison psychology Prison psychology -- Great Britain Prisonniers -- Psychologie -- Grande-Br… Prisons Prisons -- Aspect social -- Grande-Bret… Prisons -- Grande-Bretagne Prisons -- Great Britain Ressources Internet