Captive audience
Subtitle: media, masculinity, and power in prisons
By: Yvonne Jewkes.
Publisher: Willan Pub.
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cullompton, Devon; Portland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: Prisons -- Great Britain.; Prison psychology -- Great Britain.; Mass media -- Great Britain.; Masculinity -- Great Britain.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgements vii; title: Introduction: prisons, media and everyday life ix; title: 1 Prison, pain and identity: a review of the literature 1; title: The loss of liberty 2; title: The problem of time: 'doing' time, 'killing' time and; title: 'marking' time 10; title: The importance of material possessions 14; title: Autonomy, choice and personal responsibility 16; title: The deprivation of heterosexual relationships and notions; title: of masculinity 18; title: Fear of contamination and assault 20; title: Fear of personal deterioration and breakdown 21; title: Contextualising the importance of media in everyday life 22; title: 2 Identity, self and constructions of masculinity 31; title: The cultural milieu of the prison 32; title: Self and identity 40; title: The social construction of masculinity 47; title: Hegemonic masculinity in prisons 55; title: Concluding thoughts 57; title: 3 Research context anid methodology 62; title: Pilot phase 66; title: The main phase of research 67; title: Research strategy and methodology 72; title: My identities 78; title: 4 The microsocial contexts of media use 89; title: Identity and place 90; title: Identity and time 97; title: Place-time-space 107; title: Relationship between different media 114; title: Meanings and motivations sought in specific media; title: content 116; title: 5 The meso-sphere of culture, interaction and; title: hyper-masculinity 131; title: Reception and socialisation 132; title: Culture and subculture 138; title: Managing social networks 149; title: 6 The macrosocial institutional sphere 161; title: Reform and rehabilitation 162; title: Normalisation 170; title: Control 173; title: Conclusion: the paradoxical power of media in prisons 185; title: References 191; title: Index 206.