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005			20240726105028.0
008			160531s2016 quc ob 001 0 eng
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020			_a9780773599765 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
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050	0	4	_aPN4731 _b.W758 2016
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aCohen, Nicole S., _d1980-, _e1
245	1	0	_aWriters' rights : _bfreelance journalism in a digital age / _cNicole S. Cohen.
260			_aMontreal ; _aKingston ; _aLondon ; _aChicago : _bMcGill-Queen's University Press, _c(c)2016.
300			_a1 online resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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520	0		_a"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, multiskilled, 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."-- _cProvided by publisher.
505	0	0	_aIntroduction: Freedom's Double Edge: Freelance Journalism and Precarity -- _t1 A Site of Struggle: Theorizing Freelance Media Work -- _t2 A Labour History of Freelance Journalism -- _t3 Freelancers' Dues: Wages, Contracts, Copyright -- _t4 Hustle, Write, Code: The Microautonomy of Freelance Work -- _t5 Work in the Content Factory: Doing Digital Journalism -- _t6 Unite the Write: Freelancers and Collective Organization -- _t7 Packs of Lone Wolves: Experiments in Organizing Freelancers -- _tConclusion: Journalism's Precarity Penalty.
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650		0	_aJournalists _xLegal status, laws, etc.
650		0	_aSelf-employed _xLegal status, laws, etc.
650		0	_aFreelance journalism.
650		0	_aOnline journalism.
650		0	_aFreelance journalism _xEconomic aspects.
650		0	_aOnline journalism _xEconomic aspects.
650		0	_aDigital media.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1347379&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell