Nicole S Cohen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3940081 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Nicole S Cohen |
| NOMBRES | Nicole S |
| APELLIDO | Cohen |
| FIRMA | COHEN N S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Toronto |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 111 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2008 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Prepared for Precarity
This conceptual article connects journalists’ well-being explicitly to the ongoing discussion of their working conditions by answering the question: How can journalism educators best prepare aspiring journalists to enter such a precarious profession? Our overarching argument is that journalism educators have an opportunity to “inoculate” (to use a term from labor organizing) students against the vagaries of the industry and better equip them to s…
Considering Alternative Media in a Digital Age
The Union Surge in Media and Cultural Industries
This article maps and explains the recent surge of unionization in media and cultural industries in the United States and Canada. We structure our analysis around a three-part argument. First, union organizing is intensifying in media and cultural industries, evident in the number of workplaces that have unionized and the surge’s expanding reach across fields. Second, workers’ motivations to organize extend beyond compensation and job security to…
Diversity Through Precarity? Gender, Race, and Work in Digital Journalism
Background: Women have increased opportunities to participate in digital journalism, but racial and gender disparities are still pervasive in the industry. Analysis: Using qualitative, semi-structured interviews, this research examines ongoing experiences of women working in digital journalism in Canada from an intersectional perspective that attends to race, gender, and class. Conclusions and implications: In the context of an industry undergoin…
Controlled connection
Substack, a self-described “subscription network for independent writers and creators,” launched in 2017. Substack claims to be part of a better future for news workers, yet it has been embroiled in controversy and questions, particularly in recent years. In this article, we draw on interviews we conducted with journalists and writers of color who produce newsletters to better understand the opportunities and limitations of contemporary newslette…
At Work in the Digital Newsroom
Labor remains sidelined in journalism studies, especially the working conditions and experiences of journalists in digital-first newsrooms and those whose work primarily involves engagement with social media. This article reports on the findings of an exploratory study on the work of digital journalism. Based on interviews with self-identified digital journalists in Canada and the United States about their daily work experiences, the paper outlin…
Making Media
Bearing the Burden of Corporate Restructuring
This article reports on job loss among Canadian journalists between 2012 and 2016. Building on Australian research on the aftermath of job loss in journalism, this article examines the experiences of 197 journalists who were laid off or who took a buyout, voluntarily or not, due to corporate restructuring in Canadian media (both French and English). To date, no scholarly research in Canada has examined what happens to journalists after they are l…
The ambivalence of coworking
Self-employed media and cultural workers are key users of co-working spaces, where a growing number of independent workers share desks and office amenities, escape the isolation of working from home and seek contacts for paid work. Informed by interviews with coworking space operators and members, this article assesses coworking as a response to precarity. We argue that social and political ambivalence is intrinsic to the culture of coworking. Fi…
Writers' Rights
"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 worklo…
Locating Labor in Mobile Media Studies
Cultural Work as a Site of Struggle
Challenging Intern Nation
Internships have gained critical attention in Canada, thanks largely to the efforts of intern labour activists, who have generated media coverage, lobbied and advised politicians, conducted education and outreach, and advocated for an end to the proliferation of unpaid internships in Canada. This roundtable interview with intern labour activists Ella Henry, Andrew Langille, Joshua Mandryk, and Claire Seaborn was conducted by Nicole Cohen and Grei…
Entrepreneurial Journalism and the Precarious State of Media Work
Amid the current "crisis" in the business and practice of journalism, entrepreneurial journalism has been offered as a solution. While the precise set of practices that constitute entrepreneurial journalism remain unclear, such discourse promotes a notion of the enterprising individual journalist forging a career for herself through practices of self-branding and self-employment and learning to be adaptable, flexible, and self-sufficient. This es…
Cultural Industries.ca
Cultural Work as a Site of Struggle
This paper argues that Marxist political economy is a useful framework for understanding contemporary conditions of cultural work. Drawing on Karl Marx’s foundational concepts, labour process theory, and a case study of freelance writers, I argue that the debate over autonomy and control in cultural work ignores exploitation in labour-capital relationships, which is a crucial process shaping cultural work. To demonstrate the benefits of this appr…
Making Media Public
By the summer of 2008, it had become clear that a crisis in media was under way in Canada. The media giant Canwest was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, local television stations were being closed, thousands of media workers had been laid off, and community radio and television were barely supported. At the same time, publics linked through social networks were producing and distributing a growing range of their own content through new media. …
Commentary and Criticism
Entrepreneurial Journalism and the Precarious State of Media Work
Amid the current "crisis" in the business and practice of journalism, entrepreneurial journalism has been offered as a solution. While the precise set of practices that constitute entrepreneurial journalism remain unclear, such discourse promotes a notion of the enterprising individual journalist forging a career for herself through practices of self-branding and self-employment and learning to be adaptable, flexible, and self-sufficient. This es…
The ambivalence of coworking
Self-employed media and cultural workers are key users of co-working spaces, where a growing number of independent workers share desks and office amenities, escape the isolation of working from home and seek contacts for paid work. Informed by interviews with coworking space operators and members, this article assesses coworking as a response to precarity. We argue that social and political ambivalence is intrinsic to the culture of coworking. Fi…
Bearing the Burden of Corporate Restructuring
This article reports on job loss among Canadian journalists between 2012 and 2016. Building on Australian research on the aftermath of job loss in journalism, this article examines the experiences of 197 journalists who were laid off or who took a buyout, voluntarily or not, due to corporate restructuring in Canadian media (both French and English). To date, no scholarly research in Canada has examined what happens to journalists after they are l…
Commentary and Criticism
Considering Alternative Media in a Digital Age
Commentary and Criticism
Making Media Public
By the summer of 2008, it had become clear that a crisis in media was under way in Canada. The media giant Canwest was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, local television stations were being closed, thousands of media workers had been laid off, and community radio and television were barely supported. At the same time, publics linked through social networks were producing and distributing a growing range of their own content through new media. …
Cultural Work as a Site of Struggle
This paper argues that Marxist political economy is a useful framework for understanding contemporary conditions of cultural work. Drawing on Karl Marx’s foundational concepts, labour process theory, and a case study of freelance writers, I argue that the debate over autonomy and control in cultural work ignores exploitation in labour-capital relationships, which is a crucial process shaping cultural work. To demonstrate the benefits of this appr…
Cultural Industries.ca
Locating Labor in Mobile Media Studies
Cultural Work as a Site of Struggle
Challenging Intern Nation
Internships have gained critical attention in Canada, thanks largely to the efforts of intern labour activists, who have generated media coverage, lobbied and advised politicians, conducted education and outreach, and advocated for an end to the proliferation of unpaid internships in Canada. This roundtable interview with intern labour activists Ella Henry, Andrew Langille, Joshua Mandryk, and Claire Seaborn was conducted by Nicole Cohen and Grei…
Entrepreneurial Journalism and the Precarious State of Media Work
Amid the current "crisis" in the business and practice of journalism, entrepreneurial journalism has been offered as a solution. While the precise set of practices that constitute entrepreneurial journalism remain unclear, such discourse promotes a notion of the enterprising individual journalist forging a career for herself through practices of self-branding and self-employment and learning to be adaptable, flexible, and self-sufficient. This es…
Writers' Rights
"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 worklo…
The ambivalence of coworking
Self-employed media and cultural workers are key users of co-working spaces, where a growing number of independent workers share desks and office amenities, escape the isolation of working from home and seek contacts for paid work. Informed by interviews with coworking space operators and members, this article assesses coworking as a response to precarity. We argue that social and political ambivalence is intrinsic to the culture of coworking. Fi…
At Work in the Digital Newsroom
Labor remains sidelined in journalism studies, especially the working conditions and experiences of journalists in digital-first newsrooms and those whose work primarily involves engagement with social media. This article reports on the findings of an exploratory study on the work of digital journalism. Based on interviews with self-identified digital journalists in Canada and the United States about their daily work experiences, the paper outlin…
Making Media
Bearing the Burden of Corporate Restructuring
This article reports on job loss among Canadian journalists between 2012 and 2016. Building on Australian research on the aftermath of job loss in journalism, this article examines the experiences of 197 journalists who were laid off or who took a buyout, voluntarily or not, due to corporate restructuring in Canadian media (both French and English). To date, no scholarly research in Canada has examined what happens to journalists after they are l…
Diversity Through Precarity? Gender, Race, and Work in Digital Journalism
Background: Women have increased opportunities to participate in digital journalism, but racial and gender disparities are still pervasive in the industry. Analysis: Using qualitative, semi-structured interviews, this research examines ongoing experiences of women working in digital journalism in Canada from an intersectional perspective that attends to race, gender, and class. Conclusions and implications: In the context of an industry undergoin…
Controlled connection
Substack, a self-described “subscription network for independent writers and creators,” launched in 2017. Substack claims to be part of a better future for news workers, yet it has been embroiled in controversy and questions, particularly in recent years. In this article, we draw on interviews we conducted with journalists and writers of color who produce newsletters to better understand the opportunities and limitations of contemporary newslette…
Prepared for Precarity
This conceptual article connects journalists’ well-being explicitly to the ongoing discussion of their working conditions by answering the question: How can journalism educators best prepare aspiring journalists to enter such a precarious profession? Our overarching argument is that journalism educators have an opportunity to “inoculate” (to use a term from labor organizing) students against the vagaries of the industry and better equip them to s…
Considering Alternative Media in a Digital Age
The Union Surge in Media and Cultural Industries
This article maps and explains the recent surge of unionization in media and cultural industries in the United States and Canada. We structure our analysis around a three-part argument. First, union organizing is intensifying in media and cultural industries, evident in the number of workplaces that have unionized and the surge’s expanding reach across fields. Second, workers’ motivations to organize extend beyond compensation and job security to…
Political science (13 obras) · Sociology (13 obras) · Media studies (10 obras) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (6 obras) · Journalism (6 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Computer Science (5 obras) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (5 obras) · Engineering (5 obras) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (5 obras)