New Media Unions - Organizing Digital Journalists

This book maps the process of labor organizing and documents a historic and ongoing moment in the digital media industry, particularly United States journalism, to provide a counter-perspective on an industry in flux.

List of contents

Successful union drives and union affiliation, May 2015-November 2019. Introduction. 1: Motivation. 2: Activation. 3: Mobilization. 4: Recognition. 5: Negotiation. 6: Transformation.

About the author

Nicole S. Cohen is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. She teaches in the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology, and in the Faculty of Information. She is the author of Writers' Rights: Freelance Journalism in a Digital Age (2016).

Greig de Peuter is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. He is the co-author, with Nick Dyer-Witheford, of Games of Empire: Global Capitalism and Video Games (2009).

Summary

This book maps the process of labor organizing and documents a historic and ongoing moment in the digital media industry, particularly United States journalism, to provide a counter-perspective on an industry in flux.

Product details

• Authors: Nicole S. Cohen, Nicole S. De Peuter Cohen, Cohen Nicole S., Greig de Peuter
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2023
• EAN: 9781032474700
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3247470-0
• No. of pages: 118
• Series: Disruptions
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Press & journalism, News media and journalism, Media studies: Journalism