Ebook: Captive Audience
Author: Jewkes Yvonne
- Tags: Prisons -- Great Britain., Prison psychology -- Great Britain., Mass media -- Great Britain., Masculinity -- Great Britain., Masculinity., Mass media., Prison psychology., Prisons., Great Britain.
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Taylor and Francis
- City: Great Britain., Hoboken
- Language: English
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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 Read more...
Abstract: 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 - with the pressures of prison life, exploring the impact of the media in terms of prisoner identitie