TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cohen,Nicole S.
AU  - De Peuter,Greig
TI  - New Media Unions: Organizing Digital Journalists
SN  - 9781138327115
AV  - PN4797 .C58 2020
U1  - 331.2/0410704 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Abingdon, Oxon, New York, NY
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Journalists
KW  - Labor unions
KW  - United States
KW  - Collective bargaining
KW  - Organizing
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Motivation -- Activation -- Mobilization -- Recognition -- Negotiation -- Transformation
N2  - "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"--
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