Not on air, but Online: The Labor Conditions of the Digital Journalist in U.S. Local Television Newsrooms

2021 ◽  
pp. 193124312110457
Author(s):  
Carey L. Higgins-Dobney
Keyword(s):  
Social Web ◽  
Labor Studies ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Labor Conditions ◽  
Local Television ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Digital Journalism ◽  
Labor Literature ◽  
Information Focus ◽  
Over The Top

As American news preferences shift from broadcast to digital platforms, corporate-owned local television stations have hired digital teams to keep a growing array of mobile, social, web, and over-the-top platforms updated with revenue-generating and audience-friendly information. Yet, these workers are currently missing from the labor literature. Therefore, this exploratory study uses a political economy framework with a labor focus to begin to understand the day-to-day working conditions of these employees. Interviews outline workload issues including long hours of multitasking and nearly-constant connectivity even when off the clock, sped-up production expectations with a commodified information focus, and limited worker protections. The findings here aim to provide a starting point for digital journalism labor studies moving forward.

scholarly journals Circular Digital Built Environment: An Emerging Framework

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 6348
Author(s):  
Sultan Çetin ◽  
Catherine De Wolf ◽  
Nancy Bocken
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Digital Twins ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Building Information ◽  
Framework Development

Digital technologies are considered to be an essential enabler of the circular economy in various industries. However, to date, very few studies have investigated which digital technologies could enable the circular economy in the built environment. This study specifically focuses on the built environment as one of the largest, most energy- and material-intensive industries globally, and investigates the following question: which digital technologies potentially enable a circular economy in the built environment, and in what ways? The research uses an iterative stepwise method: (1) framework development based on regenerating, narrowing, slowing and closing resource loop principles; (2) expert workshops to understand the usage of digital technologies in a circular built environment; (3) a literature and practice review to further populate the emerging framework with relevant digital technologies; and (4) the final mapping of digital technologies onto the framework. This study develops a novel Circular Digital Built Environment framework. It identifies and maps ten enabling digital technologies to facilitate a circular economy in the built environment. These include: (1) additive/robotic manufacturing, (2) artificial intelligence, (3) big data and analytics, (4) blockchain technology, (5) building information modelling, (6) digital platforms/marketplaces, (7) digital twins, (8) the geographical information system, (9) material passports/databanks, and (10) the internet of things. The framework provides a fruitful starting point for the novel research avenue at the intersection of circular economy, digital technology and the built environment, and gives practitioners inspiration for sustainable innovation in the sector.

Bringing Ideology Back In: Chinese Labor Studies in a Time of Transformation

2012 ◽  
Vol 82 ◽  
pp. 143-154
Author(s):  
Xiaodan Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Capitalist Development ◽  
Labor Studies ◽  
Service Workers ◽  
Labor Conditions ◽  
Chinese Workers ◽  
Chinese Labor ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact

During the last thirty years, market reforms have turned China into an economic behemoth as the country moves deeper and deeper into capitalist development. The study of Chinese labor owes its dynamism in recent years to this dramatic economic and social transformation. Scholars are intrigued by two parallel historical transformations: On the one hand, millions of peasant migrants have been transformed into urban industrial and service workers; on the other hand, millions of former state-owned enterprise employees have lost their lifelong “iron rice bowl” job security and other benefits that they enjoyed under the Maoist socialist system. The new directions of labor studies about China reflect the unique trajectories of these important institutional and social changes. If earlier discussions mainly focused on the harsh labor conditions in sweatshops and despotic management in all kinds of factories, recent research and writing have explored a variety of emergent questions, from the impact of the new labor laws and institutional arrangements to the formation of a new working class and its relation to Chinese workers' recently highlighted legal rights and resistance. These studies have already contributed greatly to our knowledge of what is going on with Chinese workers and their labor movements in the twenty-first century.

scholarly journals Aproximación a mecanismos digitales en amazonía ecuatoriana partiendo de muestreo en la Universidad Estatal Amazónica

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (7) ◽  
pp. 56-73
Author(s):  
William Ojeda ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Amazon Region ◽  
Sample Survey ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Public Square ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Starting Point

It reflects on new mechanisms of consumption and access to information used by young people, taking as a starting point the result of the study conducted among undergraduate students, second semester of 2018 at the Amazonian State University, Ecuador, which shows a clear shift from conventional media, through new digital instruments on the rise, a situation that poses new mechanisms, languages and information consumption habits. The objective is to identify young people's interest in certain information and the mechanisms through which they access it. The scope of the study is limited because it is restricted to the Amazon region, and specifically to the group of students who entered the period and institution indicated above. The methodological approach is two-dimensional, since a documentary work is developed in order to evaluate the different theoretical approaches related to founding reflections and the most recent contributions in the field of communication within the framework of the globalization process. An experimental phase is also carried out by means of a sample survey. Among the results of the analysis, note is taken of the redimensioning of interpersonal relations promoted by the digital era of this time, when new procedures that force the resemantization and re-signification of concepts and messages hit the scene; with a redimensioning of the public space of encounter in social interrelations, where the transitory emerges as an essential characteristic of a new public square of socialization, but now virtual, as a public sphere of passage that gradually becomes an ordinary stage. It is concluded that there is a majority inclination among young people starting university studies in Ecuador, specifically in the Amazon region, to inform themselves about events they consider relevant through the Internet and digital platforms, to the detriment of conventional information media that have been gradually displaced from attention. KEYWORDS: communication, digital networks, public square, conventional media.

Wikipedaktik: Kollaborative Sachlexikografie als Lehr- und Lerngegenstand im Deutschunterricht

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (2018) ◽  
pp. 37-66
Author(s):  
Eva Gredel
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Central Issue ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Lecture Hall ◽  
Social Web ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
The Social ◽  
Digital Skills

AbstractThis paper introduces the research field of Wikipedactics with a focus on the relevance of Wikipedia’s lexicographic aspects for German lessons in higher education: The central issue is to describe one of the most successful digital platforms of the Social Web as a worthwhile teaching and learning subject. It explains Wikipedia’s hypertextual nature, its micro- and macro-structure and details scenarios of use in the classroom and the lecture hall. The paper demonstrates how pupils and students can develop digital skills and information competences when using Wikipedia. Furthermore, the didactic potential of digital tools such as Wikibu and WikiWatchdog enabling the reflected access of Wikipedia users to the online-encyclopaedic content is evaluated.

scholarly journals análisis de los costos ocultos como punto de partida para el crecimiento en las miypes en Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-70
Author(s):  
Manuel Ernesto Becerra Bizarron ◽  
Georgina Dolores Sandoval Ballesteros ◽  
Luz Amparo Delgado Diaz
Keyword(s):  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Induction Programs ◽  
Labor Conditions ◽  
Industrial Sectors ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Medium Enterprises

En la actualidad las micro, pequeñas y medianas empresas (mipymes) enfrentan grande retos como baja productividad y falta de disciplina por parte de los empleados, ocasionando así, problemas laborales referentes a los costos ocultos, considerados también como gastos innecesarios, ya que estos surgen en las operaciones diarias de la empresa a causa de la falta de comunicación entre el personal o equipo de trabajo, desmotivación, por conflictos, de esta manera se genera una mala planeación en la estructura de la organización y por ende  hay perdidas de utilidades, que la empresa no detecta a simple vista.      El presente artículo tiene como finalidad analizar los costos ocultos como punto de partida de crecimiento en las micro y pequeñas empresas de puerto vallarta, con diseño no experimental, alcance descriptivo. La muestra fue de 320 empresas, se realizó un instrumento de 12 dimensiones y 62 items.      Los resultados encontrados muestran que las condiciones de trabajo son buenas, un clima laboral agradable, herramientas indispensables para realizar sus actividades, capacitación exporadica, sin embargo se observa el retrabajo,  la perdida de potencias estrategico y la comunicación-concertación como principales generadores de costos ocultos. Abstract Today micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) are confronting great challenges such as low productivity and a lack of discipline on behalf of their employees. This is causing labor related issues associated to hidden costs, which are also considered unnecessary expenditures, arising from an enterprise’s day-to-day operation. This situation is given to the lack of communication among their personnel or workforce, leading to conflict or demotivation. As a consequence, poor planning within the organization’s structure is generated and thus losses in utilities. The aim of this article consists of the analysis of hidden performance as a starting point to boost growth in MSMEs in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco. For this purpose, we worked with a sample which consisted of 325 enterprises from commerce, services and industrial sectors, an instrument was devised consisting of 12 dimensions and 31 items. Among the main conclusions we found that poor labor conditions and the inexistence of formal induction programs, entails MSMEs workers to operate with the least required effort and indifference in the quality of their tasks, thus generating inefficiencies.

scholarly journals DYNAMICS OF DIGITAL MARKETS

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Mette Thorhauge ◽  
Jingyan Elaine Yuan ◽  
Jacob Ørmen ◽  
Andreas Gregersen ◽  
Patrick Vonderau
Keyword(s):  
Economic Sociology ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
Open Market ◽  
Interaction Patterns ◽  
Economic Implications ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Global Stock Markets ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

The focus of this panel is the material, organizational, and cultural conditions of digital markets. While the notion of economy refers to the more general production, distribution and allocation in society, the idea of markets represents specific contexts of economic exchange typical of capitalist economies (Carruthers & Babb, 2013). A more elaborate understanding of digital markets and their relationships with digital platforms can expand our understanding of the economic implications that specific types of platform architectures have at the level of economic interaction. The discussion takes as a starting point perspectives from economic sociology that emphasize how markets are embedded into broader social and societal structures (Granovetter, 2017) and conditioned upon cultural norms and conventions (Beckert, 2009). In addition, the panel is informed by the way economic sociology and STS have approached the material conditions of markets (Garcia-Parpet, 2007; MacKenzie, 2018) and the way these conditions frame and transform power relations and interaction patterns on specific markets. The panel consists of four papers that approach this issue from a range of perspectives: The relationship between platform architectures, open market strategies and the formation of ‘commodity money’ in the case of Steam, the relationship between platforms, markets, and state regulation in the case of Alibaba, the role of narratives, imagined futures, and collective action that frame patterns of buying and selling in global stock markets in the case of Gamestop shares and, finally, how the online engagement industry is organized in practice in the case of “click farms”.

Wikipedaktik: Kollaborative Sachlexikografie als Lehr- und Lerngegenstand im Deutschunterricht

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-66
Author(s):  
Eva Gredel
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Central Issue ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Lecture Hall ◽  
Social Web ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
The Social ◽  
Digital Skills

AbstractThis paper introduces the research field of Wikipedactics with a focus on the relevance of Wikipedia’s lexicographic aspects for German lessons in higher education: The central issue is to describe one of the most successful digital platforms of the Social Web as a worthwhile teaching and learning subject. It explains Wikipedia’s hypertextual nature, its micro- and macro-structure and details scenarios of use in the classroom and the lecture hall. The paper demonstrates how pupils and students can develop digital skills and information competences when using Wikipedia. Furthermore, the didactic potential of digital tools such as Wikibu and WikiWatchdog enabling the reflected access of Wikipedia users to the onlineencyclopaedic content is evaluated.

scholarly journals Contextualizing Platform Labor

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael Grohmann ◽  
Jack Qiu
Keyword(s):  
Work Conditions ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Decent Work ◽  
Labor Studies ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Exponential Increase ◽  
Digital Labor ◽  
Communication Processes ◽  
Emerging Themes ◽  
Means Of Production

Digital labor studies emerge in communication research in the early 2010s. Since then, the exponential increase in work and consumption on transportation and delivery platforms has led academics, activists and civil society to discuss phenomena called “uberization” or platformization of labor. Some of the emerging themes are work and artificial intelligence (including the workers behind AI), work conditions of platform workers, platform cooperativism and mechanisms to ensure decent work on platforms. Digital labor refers more to a wide area of studies than to a narrow category of analysis, because work is a human activity. And what does this matter for communication research? Firstly, there is no work without communication, considered as material practice. Communication processes structure and organize labor relations.  Following Williams (2005), platforms are, at the same time, means of production and means of communication. Putting the platformization on the spotlight means there is not just one type of platforms. If there is a diversity of platforms, there is also a heterogeneity of workers who are at risk of being invisible under the same label “digital labor”. There are markers of race, gender and class at work on digital platforms, which means that platformization does not affect everyone in the same way. Trabalho digital. Trabalho em plataformas. Plataformização do trabalho

scholarly journals PROJETO REPÓRTER JUNINO E A CONSTRUÇÃO DA MEMÓRIA DOS FESTEJOS JUNINOS EM AMBIÊNCIA DIGITAL: novos formatos, linguagens e saberes em rede

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 81-101
Author(s):  
Fernando Firmino da Silva ◽  
Ana Flávia Nóbrega Araújo ◽  
Emanuelle de Carvalho Rocha
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
State University ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Digital Network ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Cultura Popular ◽  
Digital Journalism ◽  
The University ◽  
Medios De Comunicacion

O trabalho objetiva relato de experiência do projeto de extensão universitária "Repórter Junino", financiado pelo PROEXT 2015/MEC/SESu, considerando o período dos últimos cinco anos de atuação - 2012 a 2017.  O projeto atua desde 2005, de forma ininterrupta, no curso de Jornalismo da Universidade Estadual da Paraíba (UEPB), congregando a interface entre cultura popular, tecnologia em rede digital e prática jornalística na construção da memória dos festejos juninos (quadrilhas juninas, artesanato, culinária regional, ritmos musicais e manifestações culturais) de Campina Grande (PB) e do Nordeste por meio de fluxo de trabalho em rede com redação em nuvem. A experiência de extensão coaduna pesquisa e ensino por meio de disciplinas como Agência de Notícias e Jornalismo Móvel e o Grupo de Pesquisa em Jornalismo e Mobilidade (Mobjor), fomentando fluxo de trabalho de cobertura jornalística da cultura popular em contexto de sociedade em rede e de múltiplos saberes. Os principais resultados são a formação de mais de mil alunos no seu tempo de existência e participação, por meio de seleção de cerca de 70 alunos e dez professores por ano, que se envolvem na atividade com produção de conteúdo cultural para plataformas digitais (site www.reporterjunino.com.br e redes sociais Instagram, Facebook e Twitter), além da construção da memória em formato digital das manifestações culturais das comunidades e artistas/protagonistas locais, diferindo a cobertura da abordagem dos meios de comunicação de massa tradicionais. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Cultura Popular. Jornalismo Digital. Repórter Junino. Memória. Extensão Universitária.   ABSTRACT The paper aims to report the experience of the university extension project called “Repórter Junino,” funded by PROEXT 2015/MEC/SESu, considering its last six years of operation - 2012 to 2017.  The project has been continuously active in the journalism course of the State University of Paraíba (UEPB) since 2005. It promotes the interface between popular culture, digital network technology and journalistic practice to build the memory of the June celebrations (June quadrilha dances, handicrafts, regional cuisine, musical rhythms and cultural events) of Campina Grande, State of Paraíba (PB) and the Northeast, through a networked workflow with cloud writing. The extension experience includes research and teaching through courses such as News Agency and Mobile Journalism and the Research Group on Mobility and Journalism (Mobjor), fostering the workflow of journalistic coverage of popular culture in the context of network society and multiple knowledges. The main results are the training of more than 1,000 students in their time of existence and participation, through selection of about 70 students and 10 teachers per year, who are involved in the activity by producing cultural content for digital platforms. In addition, they build digital memory of the cultural expressions of the communities and local artists and protagonists, differing from the coverage approach of the traditional mass media. KEYWORDS: Popular Culture; Digital Journalism; Repórter Junino; Memory; University Extension.   RESUMEN El trabajo tiene como objetivo el relato de la experiencia del proyecto de extensión universitaria "Repórter Junino" (Reportero Junino), financiado por PROEXT 2015/MEC/SESu, considerando el período de los últimos cinco años de actuación - 2012 a 2017. El proyecto opera desde 2005, de forma ininterrumpida, en el curso de periodismo de la Universidade Estadual da Paraíba (UEPB - Universidad del Estado de Paraíba), agrupando la interfaz entre cultura popular, tecnología en red digital y práctica periodística en la construcción de la memoria de los festejos de junio (cuadrillas, artesanía, culinaria regional, ritmos musicales y manifestaciones culturales) de Campina Grande (PB) y del Noreste, a través  del flujo de trabajo en red con redacción en la nube. La experiencia de extensión integra estudio y enseñanza por medio de materias como Agencia de Noticias y Periodismo Móvil e el Grupo de Estudio en Periodismo y Movilidad (Mobior), fomentando el flujo de trabajo de cobertura periodística de la cultura popular en un contexto de sociedad en red y de múltiples conocimientos. Los principales resultados son la formación de más de mil alumnos en su tiempo de existencia y participación por medio de selección, de alrededor de 70 alumnos y diez profesores por año, que participan en la actividad con producción de contenido cultural para plataformas digitales, y de la construcción de la memoria en formato digital de las manifestaciones culturales de las comunidades y artistas/protagonistas locales, diferenciando la cobertura del planteamiento delos medios de comunicación en masa tradicionales. PALABRAS CLAVE: Cultura Popular; Periodismo Digital; Repórter Junino; Memoria. Extensión Universitaria.

scholarly journals Desafios da representação da informação nas plataformas digitais dos arquivos: o caso do arquivo do jornal Público norte

2020 ◽  
pp. 52-73
Author(s):  
Maria Isabel de Almeida Ventura
Keyword(s):  
User Preferences ◽  
Information Organization ◽  
Functional Study ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Digital Platform ◽  
Content Description ◽  
Documentary Analysis ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Finding Aids ◽  
Publishing Houses

It is our goal in this study to analyze, in a first step, what issues of information organization and representation have been most discussed by theorists in the new context of digital platforms (structure of information, archival terminology, extent of information, etc.). Studies showed that the assumptions that have guided the representation of information in digital platforms are traditional normative-instrumental, characteristic of traditional archival finding aids, aimed at describing documents, but they escape the user's understanding. Many of the archival finding aids have migrated to the digital environment without being designed for that purpose. In a second step, we will present the digital platform of the newspaper Público Norte, where user-centered criteria of organization and representation of information have been applied. The starting point of this empirical study was the elaboration of the producer organic-functional study and the representation of his structure and information flow in the AtoM digital platform. For the organic study, a documentary analysis of newspapers published between 1990 and 2006 was made. The organic and structural foundations of the information system were supported by the publishing houses that produced the information. Finally, some criteria of organization and representation of the information centered on the user were applied. The results showed that an user approach was achieved through the selection and simplification of content description and the creation/adaptation of menu tags to user preferences or needs.

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