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Contribution to Book
Challenging the Media-Incarceration Complex Through Media Education
Communication, Media & The Arts Faculty Publications
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
1-1-2013
Disciplines
Abstract
Focusing on prime-time dramatic television as the most prevalent source of fictional images of violence, crime, and incarceration, in this chapter I address the distorted narratives and images that saturate popular television dramas. I also draw upon interviews I conducted with ex-prisoners to show how media representations of imprisonment, though inaccurate and misleading, shape the perceptions even of those who have themselves been incarcerated.
Citation Information
Yousman, B. (2013). Challenging the media-incarceration complex through media education. In S.J. Harnett, E. Novek, & J.K. Wood (Eds.), Working for justice: a handbook of prison education and activism (pp. 141-159). Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Version posted is pre-publication.
ISBN 9780252037702 (hardcover); 9780252079221 (paper); 9780252094965 (ebook)