[Air-L] Seeking literature on Internet access in prisons and detention facilities

Tue Jul 14 11:14:46 PDT 2020

Hello Muira

You may also find this: "Jailhouse Journalism: The Fourth Estate Behind
Bars by James McGrath Morris"  useful.

On Tue, 14 Jul 2020 at 17:43, Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen) <K.H.A.Leurs at uu.nl>
wrote:

> Hi Muira,
>
> I'm not sure if they are already on your radar, but there are some recent
> pieces on communicative practices of refugees and irregularized migrants
> living in camps and detention centers,
>
> See for example
>
> Stavinoha, L. (2019). Communicative acts of citizenship: Contesting
> Europe’s border in and through the
> media. International Journal of Communication, 13, 1212–1230.
>
> Also Behrous Boochani's story might be interesting
>
> in the Pacific, Behrouz Boochani offered a poetic first-person account of
> his experiences being held in Aus- tralia’s offshore detention center Manus
> Island. His award- winning book No Friends but the Mountains, typed out on
> a mobile phone and shared via WhatsApp, offers a portrait of life in
> detention, including emotional and psychological pressures, starvation, and
> insomnia, among others, through his unique self-composed discourse:
> The government have constructed this system and they create terms to
> establish and reinforce their power... I avoid using their language as much
> as I can... through literature I can do whatever I like. I create my own
> discourse and do not succumb to the language of oppressive power. I create
> my own language for critically analysing the phenomenon of Manus Prison.
> (Boochani 2018, 266)
>
> Boochani, Behrouz. 2018. No Friend but the Mountains: Writings from Manus
> Prison. Translated by Omid Tofighian. Sydney, Australia: Pan Macmillan
> Australia.
>
> Rae M, Holman R, Nethery A. Self-represented witnessing: The use of social
> media by asylum seekers in Australia’s offshore immigration detention
> centres. Media Cult Soc. 2018;40(4):479–95.
>
> And a paper I wrote could be of interest, Leurs, K. (2017). Communication
> rights from the margins. Politicizing young refugees’ smart phone pocket
> archives. International Communication Gazette, 79 (6-7), 674-698
>
> Hope this helps - can you kindly share literature you received back to the
> list?
>
> Warm wishes from Utrecht,
>
> Koen.
>
>
>
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> Programme | Department of Media and Culture Studies | Utrecht University,
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> studies <https://students.uu.nl/en/node/351/postcolonial-studies>, TCS
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> Recent publications:
> -Sage Handbook of Media and Migration <
> https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/the-sage-handbook-of-media-and-migration/book260835>
> (2020), edited with Kevin Smets, Myria Georgiou, Saskia Witteborn & Radhika
> Gajjala
> -Transnational connectivity and the affective paradoxes of digital care
> labour: Exploring how young refugees technologically mediate co-presence <
> https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0267323119886166> (2019),
> European Journal of Communication
> -Practicing critical media literacy education with/for young migrants:
> Lessons learned from a participatory action research project <
> https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1748048519883511> (2019),
> International Communication Gazette, with Hemmo Bruinenberg, Ena Omérovic &
> Sanne Sprenger
>
>
>
>
> On 14/07/2020, 04:21, "Air-L on behalf of Muira McCammon" <
> air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org on behalf of muira.n.mccammon at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>     Hi, all,
>
>     I wanted to reach out to this listserv to connect with folks, who have
>     published on the topic of Internet access (or lack thereof) in prisons
> as
>     well as the communication practices and/or digital rights of detained
> and
>     incarcerated populations. I've tried to keep up with
> scholarship/literature
>     on this topic over the years, but I'm sure I've missed a keyword or
>     database. If you've published on this topic, I'd love to hear from you
> and
>     if the stars align, cite you. I'm particularly interested in what
> happens
>     when the "Internet as a human right" discourses collide with carceral
>     logics.
>
>     I do apologize if this has been addressed elsewhere/previously in the
>     archive.
>
>     Thank you,
>
>     Muira
>
>     --
>     *Muira McCammon*
>     *Ph.D. candidate, Annenberg School for Communication, University of
>     Pennsylvania *
>     *M.L., University of Pennsylvania Law School (2020)*
>     *M.A. in Translation Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
> (2016) *
>     *A bit about my research here
>     <
> https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/Penn-grad-student-studies-information-flow-Guantanamo-Bay-Gitmo-detention-center
> >*
>     *Twitter: @muira_mccammon*
>
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