The Resource Writers' rights : freelance journalism in a digital age, Nicole S. Cohen
Writers' rights : freelance journalism in a digital age, Nicole S. Cohen
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The item Writers' rights : freelance journalism in a digital age, Nicole S. Cohen represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College.
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- Summary
- "As media industries undergo rapid change, conditions of media work are shifting. The number of journalists working as freelancers globally has exploded. While popular commentary positions freelancers as ideal workers for an information age--adaptable, multi-skilled, and entrepreneurial--Nicole S. Cohen argues that freelance media work is becoming increasingly precarious, marked by declining incomes, loss of control over one's work, intense workloads, long hours, and limited access to labour and social protections. Like growing numbers of workers in the media, cultural, and entertainment sectors, freelance journalists are experiencing deepening precarity. The book provides context to the freelance struggles bubbling up as we barrel toward journalism's digital future, and identifies points of contention and movements toward change. Through interviews and a survey of freelancers, Cohen highlights the paradoxes of freelancing, which can be simultaneously precarious and satisfying, risky and rewarding. The book documents the transformation of freelancing from a way for journalists to resist salaried labour in pursuit of autonomy into a strategy for media firms to intensify exploitation of freelance writers' labour power. Cohen examines pressing issues of low pay, restrictive contracts, and unpaid work, and presents four new case studies of freelancers' efforts to collectively transform their conditions. his groundbreaking work offers a timely intervention into current debates about the future of journalism, organizing workers in precarious employment, and the transformation of media work in a digital age, making clear what's at stake for journalism's democratic role when the costs and risks of its production are offloaded onto individuals."--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 323 pages
- Contents
-
- Packs of lone wolves : experiments in organizing freelancers
- Conclusion:
- Journalism's precarity penalty
- Introduction:
- Freedom's double edge : freelance journalism and precarity
- A site of struggle : theorizing freelance media work
- A labour history of freelance journalism
- Freelancers' dues : wages, contracts, copyright
- Hustle, write, code : the microautonomy of freelance work
- Work in the content factory : doing digital journalism
- Unite the write : freelancers and collective organization
- Isbn
- 9780773547964
- Label
- Writers' rights : freelance journalism in a digital age
- Title
- Writers' rights
- Title remainder
- freelance journalism in a digital age
- Statement of responsibility
- Nicole S. Cohen
- Subject
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- Freelance journalism
- Freelance journalism
- Freelance journalism -- Economic aspects
- Journalisme en ligne
- Journalisme en ligne -- Aspect économique
- Journalisme à la pige
- Journalisme à la pige -- Aspect économique
- Journalistes -- Droit
- Digital media
- Journalists -- Legal status, laws, etc
- Médias numériques
- Online journalism
- Online journalism
- Online journalism -- Economic aspects
- Self-employed -- Legal status, laws, etc
- Self-employed -- Legal status, laws, etc
- Travailleurs indépendants -- Droit
- Journalists -- Legal status, laws, etc
- Digital media
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "As media industries undergo rapid change, conditions of media work are shifting. The number of journalists working as freelancers globally has exploded. While popular commentary positions freelancers as ideal workers for an information age--adaptable, multi-skilled, and entrepreneurial--Nicole S. Cohen argues that freelance media work is becoming increasingly precarious, marked by declining incomes, loss of control over one's work, intense workloads, long hours, and limited access to labour and social protections. Like growing numbers of workers in the media, cultural, and entertainment sectors, freelance journalists are experiencing deepening precarity. The book provides context to the freelance struggles bubbling up as we barrel toward journalism's digital future, and identifies points of contention and movements toward change. Through interviews and a survey of freelancers, Cohen highlights the paradoxes of freelancing, which can be simultaneously precarious and satisfying, risky and rewarding. The book documents the transformation of freelancing from a way for journalists to resist salaried labour in pursuit of autonomy into a strategy for media firms to intensify exploitation of freelance writers' labour power. Cohen examines pressing issues of low pay, restrictive contracts, and unpaid work, and presents four new case studies of freelancers' efforts to collectively transform their conditions. his groundbreaking work offers a timely intervention into current debates about the future of journalism, organizing workers in precarious employment, and the transformation of media work in a digital age, making clear what's at stake for journalism's democratic role when the costs and risks of its production are offloaded onto individuals."--
- Additional physical form
- Issued also in electronic formats.
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- NLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Cohen, Nicole S
- Dewey number
- 070
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PN4784.F76
- LC item number
- C64 2016
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Journalists
- Self-employed
- Freelance journalism
- Online journalism
- Freelance journalism
- Online journalism
- Digital media
- Journalistes
- Travailleurs indépendants
- Journalisme à la pige
- Journalisme en ligne
- Journalisme à la pige
- Journalisme en ligne
- Médias numériques
- Self-employed
- Online journalism
- Digital media
- Freelance journalism
- Journalists
- Label
- Writers' rights : freelance journalism in a digital age, Nicole S. Cohen
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-306) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Packs of lone wolves : experiments in organizing freelancers
- Conclusion:
- Journalism's precarity penalty
- Introduction:
- Freedom's double edge : freelance journalism and precarity
- A site of struggle : theorizing freelance media work
- A labour history of freelance journalism
- Freelancers' dues : wages, contracts, copyright
- Hustle, write, code : the microautonomy of freelance work
- Work in the content factory : doing digital journalism
- Unite the write : freelancers and collective organization
- Control code
- ocn951222485
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 323 pages
- Isbn
- 9780773547964
- Lccn
- 2016497342
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780773547964
- (OCoLC)951222485
- Label
- Writers' rights : freelance journalism in a digital age, Nicole S. Cohen
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-306) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Packs of lone wolves : experiments in organizing freelancers
- Conclusion:
- Journalism's precarity penalty
- Introduction:
- Freedom's double edge : freelance journalism and precarity
- A site of struggle : theorizing freelance media work
- A labour history of freelance journalism
- Freelancers' dues : wages, contracts, copyright
- Hustle, write, code : the microautonomy of freelance work
- Work in the content factory : doing digital journalism
- Unite the write : freelancers and collective organization
- Control code
- ocn951222485
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 323 pages
- Isbn
- 9780773547964
- Lccn
- 2016497342
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780773547964
- (OCoLC)951222485
Subject
- Freelance journalism
- Freelance journalism
- Freelance journalism -- Economic aspects
- Journalisme en ligne
- Journalisme en ligne -- Aspect économique
- Journalisme à la pige
- Journalisme à la pige -- Aspect économique
- Journalistes -- Droit
- Digital media
- Journalists -- Legal status, laws, etc
- Médias numériques
- Online journalism
- Online journalism
- Online journalism -- Economic aspects
- Self-employed -- Legal status, laws, etc
- Self-employed -- Legal status, laws, etc
- Travailleurs indépendants -- Droit
- Journalists -- Legal status, laws, etc
- Digital media
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