Drawing on the Foucauldian policy analysis framework developed by Bacchi (2009) and building on insights distilled from a study of discourses on the microblogging SNS, Twitter, this paper makes three novel contributions. It unravels how the impact of imprisonment on families is represented in or produced through policy discourses and other governance practices. It also demonstrates how SNS affordances enable affected families to resist and challenge the discourses and proffer alternatives strategies that can inform a transformational problematization model. The paper makes a third contribution by demonstrating how a methodologically innovative triangulation of computational and social science methods can be used to study the contributions of hard-to-reach populations such as the families of people in prison.

本文借鉴了 Bacchi (2009) 开发的福柯式政策分析框架，并基于对微博 SNS、Twitter 上的话语研究提炼的见解，提出了三个新的贡献。它揭示了监禁对家庭的影响是如何在政策话语和其他治理实践中体现或产生的。它还展示了 SNS 可供性如何使受影响的家庭能够抵制和挑战话语，并提供可以为转型问题化模型提供信息的替代策略。该论文的第三个贡献是展示了如何使用计算和社会科学方法的方法论创新三角测量来研究难以接触到的人群（例如监狱中的人的家人）的贡献。