Cultural Work as a Site of Struggle: Freelancers and Exploitation
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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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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Freelance Journalists’ Ethical Boundary Settings in Information Work
The borders between the media genres journalism and information or PR are blurring, and this development is especially noticeable among freelance journalists. How does this affect freelance journalists, particularly their ethical reasoning?
Ladendorf Martina
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Journalists at risk: News media perspectives
On 22 May 2009, Massey University’s Wellington campus hosted many speakers addressing the conference on war reporting jointly organised by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Brent Edwards +4 more
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Freelancing in Flemish News Media and Entrepreneurial Skills as Pivotal Elements in Job Satisfaction [PDF]
The bulk of research on journalists profiles and job careers consist of 1) large scale surveys 2) among employed journalists working in an editorial team. Freelancers or entrepreneurial journalists are often neglected or marginalized in these studies.
De Cock, Rozane, De Smaele, Hedwig
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All work and no pay: consequences of unpaid work experience in the creative industries [PDF]
This research note evaluates the benefits and pitfalls of unpaid work as an entry route into employment in the creative industries and investigates the consequences of this practice for those who already work in the sector.
Ball L +11 more
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Neural networks for illustration generation: towards the issue of adaptation practices
Technologies are rapidly transforming the field of journalism. The phenomenon of convergence has long become the norm, and the term text in the media includes not only the verbal component, but also photos, videos, audio, graphics - that is, it ...
Olga S. Mukhina, Vladimir F. Oleshko
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Opinioni senza volto: il ruolo dell’autore nel genere del commento giornalistico in Cina
In China, the genre (Bhatia 1993) of news commentary has had a key role in the evolution of the country’s politics since the end of the 19th century, when modern journalism started to develop under the late Qing dynasty (De Giorgi 2001).
Emma Lupano
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Freelancers in Germany's Old and New Media Industry: Beyond Standard Patterns of Work and Life? [PDF]
The paper addresses potential changes in the patterns of work and private life among freelancers in Germany's media industry (journalists, designers, software developers). In the first step, we analyze how freelance workers have been integrated into Germany's regulations for the labor market.
Annette Henninger, Karin Gottschall
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Safety and Security Issues of Media Professional: A Case Study of Freelance Journalists in Pakistan
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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