Connecting and Coping with Stigmatized Others: Examining Social Support Messages in Prison Talk Online

Hinck, Alexandra; Hinck, Shelly S; Smith, Jeffrey Stephen; Withers, Lesley Anne

doi:10.1080/10510974.2019.1658611

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“…In some instances, in US penal institutions with strict no-internet policies, blog posts were and continue to be hand-written and sent to volunteers who publish them online (see: Minutes Before Six, online and Ben's Prison Blog, online). These blogs parallel another, related phenomenon of prison support forums, blogs, and newsletters, wherein family members and loved ones of incarcerated people communicate with each other across a variety of platforms with emotional support, tips for visitation, and legal advice (Hinck et al, 2019) (see also: The Prison Wife Podcast, online). This broad array of prison-society communication, ranging from one-way to two-way contact, indicates both the indelible need for social communication by those inside, as well as the creative ways incarcerated individuals have sought to create these avenues of contact.…”

Section: Historicizing Prison Tiktok and Social Reclamationmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Social reclamation is a distinct analytic concept in part because it can be applied to a particular form of agential activities related to sociality. Here we discuss communicative acts, ranging from participating in online forums (Hinck et al, 2019) to radio productions and podcasts (Anderson, 2013; Cecil, 2020) to publishing newspapers (Drummond, 2020), all as ways that incarcerated individuals re-stake their claims to complex identities and pre-carceral sociality.…”

Section: Defining Social Reclamationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Doing time online: Prison TikTok as social reclamation

Schlosser

Feldman

2022

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In recent years, the United States government along with prison authorities have worked to pass laws preventing incarcerated people from accessing cellular technology and using social media behind bars. Yet through the acquisition of contraband cell phones, some incarcerated people have subverted these laws to create a presence on social media, particularly on the popular social media app TikTok. We introduce the term social reclamation to describe the use of social media by imprisoned people to achieve three primary goals: (1) to remain connected to society through engagement with current social and cultural trends, (2) to reclaim self-narratives of everyday life by sharing lived experiences behind bars, and (3) to expose the unseen dehumanizing reality of prison industrial complex. Through the analysis of select prison TikTok videos we situate these acts of social reclamation on Rubin’s continuum of friction-resistance, and we conclude by juxtaposing our findings to state-centered narratives that claim cell phone use in prison poses a threat to public safety.

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Section: Historicizing Prison Tiktok and Social Reclamationmentioning

confidence: 98%