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Entrepreneurial Solidarities: Social Media Collectives and Filipino Digital Platform Workers

open access: yesSocial Media + Society, 2020
The article examines the role of social media groups for online freelance workers in the Philippines—digital workers obtaining “gigs” from online labor platforms such as Upwork and Onlinejobs.ph—for social facilitation and collective organizing.
Cheryll Ruth R. Soriano   +1 more
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Sydney freelance journalists and the notion of professionalism

open access: yesPacific Journalism Review, 2007
Freelance journalists experience constraints in their practice which impact upon their independence; yet they invoke the idea of professionalism  similar to that of the employed journalists to justify their position as journalists.
Jahnnabi Das
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Media Freelancers of the Digital Age: Social, Legal and Ethical Aspects

open access: yesKnE Social Sciences, 2022
The media determine the effectiveness of many current socio-economic and cultural transformations. However, the digital age has created new requirements for the daily work of journalists and other media actors. Freelancing is one of the actively developing trends. According to surveys, media professionals find many advantages to this lifestyle, and the
Oleshko, V. F., Mukhina, O.
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Freelancers or "public intellectuals"? Professional identity and discursive representation of Chinese independent media writers in a fast-changing landscape

open access: yesLingue Culture Mediazioni, 2017
Freelance journalists in China emerged in the early 2000s as a much-needed professional entity in a sector that had changed significantly since the media reform was launched in the country in 1978.
Emma Lupano
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Social media attacks against female Canadian journalists

open access: yesFrontiers in Communication, 2023
I investigate in this brief empirical study the social media attacks against female Canadian journalists who have frequently been targeted with online abuse.
Ahmed Al-Rawi
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Interview: Carrie Sutton

open access: yesAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 2020
Carrie Sutton is a freelance directors’ representative working with independent creatives as well as music video directors signed to Biscuit Filmworks, Blindeye Films, Good Co., Kode Media, Rankin and The Graft.
Carrie Sutton
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Invisible, solidary, unbranded and passionate: everyday life as a freelance and precarious worker in four Italian radio stations

open access: yesWork Organisation, Labour and Globalisation, 2016
This article presents an investigation into the everyday lives of freelance radio producers in the Italian radio industry from a perspective that applies the sociology of work to the study of media production.
Tiziano Bonini, Alessandro Gandini
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Safety and Security Issues of Media Professional: A Case Study of Freelance Journalists in Pakistan

open access: yesANNALS OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND PERSPECTIVE, 2021
In the last twenty years’ Pakistani media have experienced remarkable progress and transformation in its role. There have been serious setbacks in current years. Almost more than one hundred private TV channels are currently broadcasting. Pakistan is one of the unsafe counties of the world for journalists as per the 2020 report of the International ...
Syed Wasim Raza   +3 more
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Cultural Work as a Site of Struggle: Freelancers and Exploitation

open access: yestripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2012
This paper argues that Marxist political economy is a useful framework for understanding contemporary conditions of cultural work. Drawing on Karl Marx’s foundational concepts, labour process theory, and a case study of freelance writers, I argue that ...
Nicole S. Cohen
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Gravitation et dispersion dans les carrières des journalistes passés par la presse quotidienne nationale

open access: yesTemporalités, 2016
In this article we try to describe and analyze the careers of journalists in the worlds of communication since the 1980s. We make the assumption that those worlds are structured by gravitational laws and that the national daily press has a powerful ...
Gilles Bastin, Antoine Machut
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