Derribando el autoestigma: medios de comunicación en prisiones como aliados de la inclusión social

Paloma Contreras Pulido; Daniel Martín Pena; José Ignacio Aguaded Gómez

doi:10.7764/cdi.36.708

Authors

Paloma Contreras Pulido Universidad de Huelva, Huelva, España
Daniel Martín Pena Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz, España
José Ignacio Aguaded Gómez Universidad de Huelva, Huelva, España

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7764/cdi.36.708

Keywords:

Prisons, prisoners, communication, self-stigma, media literacy, Spain

Abstract

Media production within prisons can become an important tool for the prisoners’ social inclusion. This research explores these initiatives in Spain. Despite the fact that efforts of media literacy as a tool for intervention in prisons remain invisible to the majority of society, and even to prisons, we have counted 39 different experiences in the Spanish context. Through a qualitative methodology based on in-depth interviews with 29 prisoners and 6 educators involved in these projects in Spanish prisons, we have concluded that these activities help to break down stigmas and –even more important– self-stigmas. Without claiming to be representative, the results show that these activities may become a valuable social insertion tool and also a personal transformation instrument.

Author Biographies

Paloma Contreras Pulido, Universidad de Huelva, Huelva, España

Ph.D. in communication and education from the University of Huelva. She is hired by FPI-MINECO at the University of Huelva. Journalist and social educator. Member of the Ágora research group. Teacher of the Master of Communication and Audiovisual Education (UHU-UNIA) and of the course of Media, social control and critical awareness of the degree in Social Education of the University of Huelva. Her research interests are centered on media literacy and communication for social change.

Daniel Martín Pena, Universidad de Extremadura, Badajoz, España

Ph.D. in Educommunication from the University of Huelva. Staff researcher of the University of Extremadura. Member of the ARDOPA research group. Professor of the degree in Audiovisual Communication at the University of Extremadura. Director of the Radio of the University of Extremadura (Onda Campus). He has done lectures in Colombia, Argentina and Italy. His lines of research are centered on university radio stations and their international relations for the creation of networks.

José Ignacio Aguaded Gómez, Universidad de Huelva, Huelva, España

Professor of Education and Communication at the University of Huelva. He chairs the Comunicar group, a Spanish institution veteran in media literacy. Director of the "Ágora" research group within the Andalusian Research Plan (HUM-648), Editor of the JCR/Scopus scientific journal Comunicar, Director of the International Master in Communication and Education (UNIA/UHU) and UHU Coordinator of the Interuniversity Doctoral Program in Communication (US, UMA, UCA, UHU).