scholarly journals Outsourced information: identity and unpaid work in the age of digital journalism

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 359-377
Author(s):  
Teresa Cristina Furtado Matos ◽  
Serge Katembera Rhukuzage
Keyword(s):  
Unpaid Work ◽  
Information Production ◽  
Local News ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Sociology Of Work ◽  
Concrete Case ◽  
Online Newspapers ◽  
Digital Journalism ◽  
Age Of Information ◽  
Production Of Information

The Age of Information has been extensively studied by Castells, in the late 1980’s. Several of the implications discussed by this author at the time are observable nowadays, specially the ones concerning the tendencies to precariousness that labor activities related to information production present. Due to an increasingly accentuated demand for information, communication companies (such as TV stations and printed and online newspapers) have developed outsourcing methods of production of content. Said methods consist, basically, on the recruitment of a literate elite of professionals, originated from other countries, to produce quality “local news”. In this article, we analyze a concrete case of outsourcing of information, performed by a French blog platform that mainly recruits contributors from Africa. Based on the analysis of the interviews carried out with ten of these bloggers, we show, albeit in an exploratory way, the emerging conflicts that the process of outsourced production of information generates. During the discussion of this subject, we mobilized concepts developed within the field of sociology of work and other recent theoretical productions on the precariousness of informational work.

Valorising the Cultural Content of the Commodity

2013 ◽  
pp. 189-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Foster
Keyword(s):  
Information Aggregation ◽  
Informational Content ◽  
Information Production ◽  
Information Goods ◽  
Information Economy ◽  
Proprietary Information ◽  
Cultural Content ◽  
Production Of Information

A change in the informational content of the commodity, along with the emergence of a decentralized networked communications environment, has given rise to new forms of informational work. Drawing on the thesis of immaterial labour this chapter explores how these new forms of informational work e.g. information aggregation systems for accessing the judgments of many minds, the distribution of digital free, and opportunities for the co-production of information goods, have emerged to valorise the cultural content of the commodity. The chapter begins by introducing the topic of information goods, and by identifying the main tenets of immaterial labour. This is followed by a discussion of these new forms of informational work within the context of proprietary and non-proprietary information production. The chapter concludes with a critique of the exploitation and use of immaterial labour in a networked information economy.

scholarly journals More Than a ‘Little Act of Kindness’? Towards a Typology of Volunteering as Unpaid Work

Sociology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (6) ◽  
pp. 1239-1256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mihaela Kelemen ◽  
Anita Mangan ◽  
Susan Moffat
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Unpaid Work ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Domestic Sphere ◽  
Sociology Of Work ◽  
Paid Employment ◽  
Private Spaces

Definitions of volunteering are widespread and complex, yet relatively little attention is given to volunteering as unpaid work, even though it intersects with the worlds of paid employment and the domestic sphere, cutting across individual/collective and public/private spaces. This article advances a typology of volunteering work (altruistic, instrumental, militant and forced volunteering/‘voluntolding’) that illuminates the complexity and dynamism of volunteering. Using qualitative data from a study of 30 volunteers to explore practices of volunteering as they unfold in daily life, the typology provides much-needed conceptual building blocks for a theory of ‘volunteering as unpaid work’. This perspective helps transcend the binaries prevalent in the sociology of work and provides a lens to rethink what counts as work in contemporary society. It also invites further research about the effects of ‘voluntolding’ on individuals and society, and on the complex relationship between volunteering work and outcomes at a personal and collective level.

scholarly journals Transformasi Media Massa Menuju Era Masyarakat Informasi di Indonesia

Humaniora ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wira Respati
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Citizen Journalism ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Ict Adoption ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Information Change ◽  
Media Applications ◽  
Age Of Information

Indonesia is now on the transition toward the Age of Information Society. In this period, the pattern of gathering as well as distributing information change. This situation is in accordance with the change of human lifestyle as the concequences of Information Communication Technology (ICT) adoption. Their tools in communicating offer more opportunies and interactive characteristics. Moreover, the use of social media applications, which one of them is blog based on web 2.0, opens possibilities for the audience to give more active roles in gathering and distributing news, just like what professional journalists do. The question now is about how the practioners of mainstream news face this phenomenon, what they should do to maintain their existence in media industry. They should not ignore the growth of virtual community as well as citizen journalism. They cannot also pretend that there is no change on their audience behavior in consuming media. On the contrary, they do need to give space to their audiences who are in transtition toward the age of information society, to participate creatively in gathering and producing information. 

scholarly journals Fall or Rise? Mapping the Development of Traditional and Digital Newspapers

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ramzan Pahore ◽  
Sumera Memon ◽  
Qaiser Khan
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Online Newspapers ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
The World ◽  
Developed World ◽  
Digital Newspapers

Daily newspapers in the world are shrinking in many dimensions. All big or small newspapers are getting smaller in size, business and news circulation. The speed at which newspapers are shutting down is not much different from the early 20th century. Thus, most newspapers are shifting from conventional setting to online/ digital newspapers only. Since the last two decades, the business of newspaper has declined as many newspapers have migrated business and appearance online to retain print readers via online only consumers and attract new ones who are just netters in the world. This change has been noticed in all countries. Pakistan is also one among those countries in which new technology is being adopted in the field of media. Due to information communication technologies, most of the Pakistani print, electronic media organization has switched to online to keep pace with the developed world. Hence, most of the conventional/traditional newspapers become digital newspapers along with print publications. Therefore, this paper discusses the history and development of online newspapers. Digital media has the power to attract many young news consumers because of its convenience, ease of excess, update 24/7 and availability at any time. These features are the prime source of newspaper decline and a major source of digital media growth.

An analysis of general-audience and Black news sites’ coverage of African American issues during the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 073953292110306
Author(s):  
Masudul Biswas ◽  
Carrie Sipes ◽  
Lori Brost
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
General Interest ◽  
Local News ◽  
General Audience ◽  
Online Newspapers

This study has compared the news coverage of African American issues during the COVID-19 pandemic between general-interest online newspapers and Black news sites. Compared with COVID-19 pandemic news coverage by general-interest news sites, news coverage by Black news sites included significantly higher number of stories with African American issues. This study also identifies similarities in pandemic news coverage of African American issues between local news sites and Black news sites publishing from Black-majority cities.

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