New Media Unions: Organizing Digital Journalists

di Nicole S. Cohen (Autore)

Greig de Peuter (Autore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2020

Investigating the wave of unionization that has seen over 60 digital and legacy media outlets unionize since 2015, this book explores how a flash of organizing by digital-first journalists has become a full-blown movement to unionize journalism, particularly in the United States. Through in-depth interviews with journalists and organizers, New Media Unions maps the process of labor organizing, foregrounding journalists' voices and documenting a historic and ongoing moment in the digital media industry. Cohen and de Peuter examine what motivates union drives, then follow journalists through the making of a union from scratch. They explore how journalists strategically self-organize, apply their communication skills to alternative ends, generate affective bonds of solidarity, and build power to confront anti-union campaigns and bargain first contracts, winning significant gains and drafting a new labor code for journalism in a digital age. This book demonstrates that if journalism is to have a future, it must be organized. New Media Unions provides a counter-perspective on an industry in flux, whose protagonists-young journalists facing precarious futures-are using collective organizing to articulate a bottom-up vision for journalism's future. This is a valuable resource for academics and researchers interested in political economy, journalism studies, and labor studies. Book website: www.newmediaunions.com

• Autore: Nicole S. Cohen, Greig de Peuter
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Collana: Disruptions
• Anno: 2020
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 118 p.
• Dimensioni: 216 x 138 mm
• Peso: 249 gr.
• EAN: 9781138327115

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