Abstract
From the very outset Tai Neilson is unequivocal; this is not just a book about journalism and technology, it is a book about journalists as workers. It is about daily journalistic work practices: the way journalists understand themselves and their industry, their employment relations and the broader power structures that influence their work. Neilson is primarily occupied with one critical question: how can journalism not only contribute to the production of news but fundamentally change the apparatus of news production for the better?
What follows is a compelling and comprehensive argument for understanding journalists as digital labourers and why, this places journalists ‘within a volatile milieu of paid and unpaid workers for whom digital media shapes productive activity’(p. 7). Nielson sees digital labour as a useful framework for understanding both the challenges and opportunities for journalists while shining a light on …
What follows is a compelling and comprehensive argument for understanding journalists as digital labourers and why, this places journalists ‘within a volatile milieu of paid and unpaid workers for whom digital media shapes productive activity’(p. 7). Nielson sees digital labour as a useful framework for understanding both the challenges and opportunities for journalists while shining a light on …
| Original language | English (Ireland) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 2160 |
| Number of pages | 2161 |
| Journal | Journalism |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue number | 8 |
| Publication status | Published - 2021 |