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

[Muira McCammon]

Hi, everyone,

I just wanted to circle back briefly. I think I've now responded to almost
everyone who wrote me individually and felt compelled to write a short
update to the collective.

First off, I'd like to thank everyone for their rich insights. I had put a
project on the back burner related to this topic and now feel thoroughly
compelled to return to work on it. An unexpected development!

Furthermore, some of you have asked that I share the citations I was using
in my own work, before I sent my email; some of you also asked me to share
the citations I received from other members of this listserv. I'm happy to
do this, a little later in the month, and share it back as a Google doc, if
that works for folks.

For a little more background, I am conducting ongoing research involving
the U.N. Detention Unit in The Hague, the U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement's detention facilities, and the U.S. detention facilities
in Guantánamo
Bay (pre-9/11, in the 90s and post-9/11, from the 2002-present).  More
broadly, I examine flows of people, information, and media in and out of
isolated, government-controlled properties. Would love to keep in touch
with folks from the listserv, who have a common interest in these topics.
Please don't hesitate to reach out just to connect and/or discuss
specifics, even if you have no citations to offer! : )

In closing, thank you for giving me much to ponder,

Muira

*Muira McCammon*
*Ph.D. candidate, Annenberg School for Communication, UPenn *

*@muira_mccammon*
*New article out in *New Media & Society
<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1461444820934034>*: "*Tweeted,
deleted: An exploratory study of the US government’s digital memory holes"


On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 10:20 PM Muira McCammon <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
>