Captive Audience: Media, Masculinity and Power in Prisons.(Book Review)

By Yvonne Jewkes (2002) Collompton: Willan Publishing, 224 pp., ISBN 1903240654

There is a relative paucity of studies of prison media audiences. Extant research deals in the main with the issue of family viewing, and as a result the role of media within the prison environment has remained undefined. Captive Audience concentrates on this neglected media audience and seeks to explore the meanings and motives that inmates seek in their consumption of media.

Jewkes' research adheres to ethnographic method, gathering data by means of semi-structured interviews within four prisons ...

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