Prison Media Incarceration and the Infrastructures of Work and Technology

• Main Author: Kaun, Anne (auth)
• Other Authors: Stiernstedt, Fredrik (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2023
• Series: Distribution Matters
• Subjects: Advertising & society; Juvenile offenders; Prison; prison culture; media culture; media technologies; technologies of incarceration; prison media; media infrastructures; Scandinavian exceptionalism; Nordic welfare state
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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...