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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Writers' rights
    sub title: freelance journalism in a digital age
  name:
    name part: Cohen, Nicole S.
    name part: 1980-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: quc
    date issued: 2016
    copyright date: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 323 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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 labor 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 labor 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.
  note: Nicole S. Cohen.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Journalists
    topic: Legal status, laws, etc
  subject:
    topic: Self-employed
    topic: Legal status, laws, etc
  subject:
    topic: Freelance journalism
  subject:
    topic: Online journalism
  subject:
    topic: Freelance journalism
    topic: Economic aspects
  subject:
    topic: Online journalism
    topic: Economic aspects
  subject:
    topic: Digital media
  classification: PN4731 .C64 2016
  classification: 070
  identifier: 9780773547964
  identifier: 0773547967
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 160524
    record change date: 20170926150042.0
    record identifier: in00003748988
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng