Prison Media: Incarceration and the Infrastructures of Work and Technology Kaun Anne
Prison Media: Incarceration and the Infrastructures of Work and Technology Kaun Anne How prisoners serve as media laborers, while the prison serves as a testing ground for new media…
Specifikacia Prison Media: Incarceration and the Infrastructures of Work and Technology Kaun Anne
Prison Media: Incarceration and the Infrastructures of Work and Technology Kaun Anne
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. 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? 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.
Prison Media foregrounds 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.Examining the relationship between media and prison architecture, as surveillance and communication technologies