Social and structural constraints on media use in incarceration

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This study investigated the relationship of social‐contextual features of incarceration to inmates’ uses of media resources. Previous research indicated that inmates’ modal responses to the incentives and deprivations of institutional life were linked to certain types of media dependency. Analysis of the media regimens and other indexes of communicative behavior of an inmate sample at a medium‐security prison provided evidence that both structural living conditions and inmates’ motivational orientations to prison experience affected media use time allocations and gratifications.

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