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Work and Organizing in Digital Media


January 24, 2018


While many laud the benefit of digital technologies for the production of digital media - more access, more voices, more ways to tell a story, for example - paying attention to the experiences of workers in digital media demonstrates intensifying struggles underway. This talk presents research on digital journalists' working conditions, both among self-employed/freelance journalists and those employed in digital-first news outlets. I attend to the social and power relations shaping the use of digital technologies and examine the implications for workers, including forced entrepreneurialism, low pay, exploitation of copyrights, overwork, automation, measurement and surveillance, and deepening inequalities based on gender and race. I examine various forms of collective organizing among digital media workers and discuss the challenges and opportunities they hold for democratizing digital media in contemporary capitalism.

RSVP to Attend: thecapitalismworkshop@gmail.com

Time: 6:30-8:30pm
Venue: CSI Annex, Rm 4, 3rd floor
Location: 720 Bathhurst St. Toronto, ON
Website: http://capitalismworkshop.com/work-and-organizing-in-digital-media/
For information contact: thecapitalismworkshop@gmail.com
Categories: Science & Technology

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