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Adverse psychosocial working conditions and subjective health in freelance media workers

Work and Stress, 2005
Abstract In recent years there has been a steady growth of non-standard work contracts in advanced societies. These contracts are characterized by increased flexibility of work arrangements and increased job instability, which holds particularly true for the media industry. This pilot study analyses associations of work stress with subjective health in
Olaf von Dem Knesebeck, Johannes Siegrist, Michael Ertel   +2 more
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Flexibility or precarity: exploring transformative resilience amongst media and cultural freelance workers in Singapore

Corporate Communications
Purpose This article examines how freelance workers in Singapore’s media and cultural (M&C) sector cultivate resilience in relation to the precarity they face in their flexible work schemes. It examines how their acts of resilience and those of other organisational and government actors may contribute to or ...
Audrey Yue, Natalie Pang, Jane M Jacobs   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

THE RISE OF THE FREELANCE ECONOMY: A POLICY-FOCUSED APPROACH TO EMPOWERING MEDIA FREELANCERS IN THE UAE

Balkan Social Science Review
High-quality freelance media professionals are currently in high demand and stand for years to come. The difficulties faced by media professionals in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic have led to new job openings where innovation can freely express ...
Suzana DZAMTOSKA ZDRAVKOVSKA, Sabir HAQUE, Puja MAHESH   +2 more
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The blurring line between freelance journalists and self-employed media workers

Journalism, 2022
This study uses the question, ‘what makes a freelancer specifically a journalist’ as a starting point for investigating the ways Australian freelance journalists experienced and managed precarious employment in COVID-19 impacted 2020. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 32 self-identified freelance journalists, we analyse the types of work they did,
Beate Josephi, Penny O’Donnell
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Freelance journalism in Zimbabwe: Challenges and opportunities [PDF]

Journalism
In Zimbabwe, the comatose economy has had an impact on the media industry. Since 2000, media houses have been shutting down due to lack of financial support or poor business environment. For some news organisations, they have been retrenching their staff
Lungile Tshuma, Mphathisi Ndlovu
exaly   +2 more sources

Servicing the media: freelancing, teleworking and ‘enterprising’ careers

New Technology, Work and Employment, 1999
This article examines the working lives of people offering services to the media on a freelance basis. Almost all work from home using information and communication technologies but isolation in the home is not the norm as most maintain extensive personal networks in the industry.
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Media Freelancers and Platforms: How Beginner and Experienced Media Freelancers Perceive Online Platforms

MediAsia Official Conference Proceedings, 2023
Jandy Luik, Dwi Setiawan, Ronald H.I. Sitindjak   +2 more
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FREELANCE JOURNALISM IN THE EDITORIAL POLICY OF HYPERLOCAL MEDIA

Sign problematic field in mediaeducation
Journalism and the media communication industry at large, along with other social institutions, are going through the transformation period. Not only semantic, but also economic guidelines are changing. Today, the term «precarity» is increasingly used, implying flexible employment.
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Gnarly Freelancers: Professional Skateboarders’ Labor and Social-Media Use in the Neoliberal Economy

Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 2020
The working conditions of professional skateboarders are rarely investigated in academic literature or traditional skate media (e.g., Thrasher Magazine). This article contextualizes skateboarding labor and compares its professionals with other freelance contractors in the precarious neoliberal economy.
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Japanese Freelance Workers Struggle during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Social Media, Critique, and Political Resistance

Asia-Pacific Journal, 2020
AbstractFreelance work has proliferated in Japan over the last decade due in part to the Abe administration's encouragement of work style reform to reinvigorate the economy. However, freelancers have heavily criticized the government for treating them unequally in their compensation program for workers affected by the coronavirus. The COVID-19 pandemic
Satsuki Uno, Robin O'Day
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