Tai Neilson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3079931 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tai Neilson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tai |
| FAMILY NAME | Neilson |
| SIGNATURE | NEILSON T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5109-5850 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Marxists Internet Archive Takedown
Administrators of the Marxists Internet Archive (MIA) removed the texts based on Marx and Engels' Collected Works (MECW) from their website on May 1, 2014.The works were taken down in compliance with a directive from the publisher Lawrence and Wishart (L&W) that claims ownership of the 50 volume collection.L&W's directive sought to retract these works -works by, arguably, two of the most important radical intellectuals that have been deceased for…
Journalism unions and digital platform regulation: A critical discourse analysis of submissions to Australia's News Media Bargaining Code
Journalism unions are among the chorus of voices advocating for digital platform regulation. Yet, despite the documented impacts of platformisation on working conditions and labour markets, few of the recent inquiries into platform power have addressed the impacts of platforms on labour. In this article, we ask: what is the role of labour unions in shaping digital platform regulation? As our case study, we analysed how Australia's journalism unio…
Mobs, Crowds, and Trolls: Theorizing the Harassment of Journalists in the Philippines
Using the Philippines as a case study, we draw on crowd theory to understand how and why online mobs gather to harass reporters. Under Rodrigo Duterte’s presidency, his administration and supporters targeted independent journalism using violent tactics online and offline, including threats of rape, death, and doxing. Yet, when online mobs harass reporters it is not simply an extension of state censorship. Rather, understanding the dynamics that s…
Now Hiring Social Media Editors
Social Media Editors (SME) are involved in digital news circulation, engagement with online audiences, and the analysis and circulation of audience data. This article extends research on SMEs to investigate how employers make sense of these positions and the roles they are required to perform within news organizations. To do so, we analyze job listings for SMEs posted by US news companies in combination with interviews with SMEs. Employers play a…
Big Tech and News: A Critical Approach to Digital Platforms, Journalism, and Competition Law
Social Media Editors and the Audience Funnel: Tensions between Commercial Pressures and Professional Norms in the Data-Saturated Newsroom
This article explores the changing roles of Social Media Editors (SMEs) in the field of journalism, focusing on their unique position as mediators between online news consumers, marketing departments, and newsrooms. Based on in-depth interviews, our findings suggest that, far beyond their origins as comment field moderators, SMEs now play a crucial role in integrating complex behavioral data from social network sites and circulating this data in …
Journalism and Digital Labor: Experiences of Online News Production
This book investigates journalists’ work practices, professional ideologies, and the power relations that impact their work, arguing that reporters’ lives and livelihoods are shaped by digital technologies and new modes of capital accumulation. Tai Neilson weaves together ethnographic approaches and critical theories of digital labor. Journalists’ experiences are at the heart of the book, which is based on interviews with news workers from Aotear…
I don’t engage: Online communication and social media use among New Zealand journalists
Social media, comment threads, and other means of online communication are important to journalists’ work processes, but expand their workload and pose challenges to their professional identity. The concept of ‘engagement’ is used by news workers in New Zealand to describe the role of digitally mediated communication in their work. Engagement deserves scholarly treatment akin to concepts such as ‘participatory journalism’ because it is employed b…
I don’t engage: Online communication and social media use among New Zealand journalists
Social media, comment threads, and other means of online communication are important to journalists’ work processes, but expand their workload and pose challenges to their professional identity. The concept of ‘engagement’ is used by news workers in New Zealand to describe the role of digitally mediated communication in their work. Engagement deserves scholarly treatment akin to concepts such as ‘participatory journalism’ because it is employed b…
Social Media Editors and the Audience Funnel: Tensions between Commercial Pressures and Professional Norms in the Data-Saturated Newsroom
This article explores the changing roles of Social Media Editors (SMEs) in the field of journalism, focusing on their unique position as mediators between online news consumers, marketing departments, and newsrooms. Based on in-depth interviews, our findings suggest that, far beyond their origins as comment field moderators, SMEs now play a crucial role in integrating complex behavioral data from social network sites and circulating this data in …
Now Hiring Social Media Editors
Social Media Editors (SME) are involved in digital news circulation, engagement with online audiences, and the analysis and circulation of audience data. This article extends research on SMEs to investigate how employers make sense of these positions and the roles they are required to perform within news organizations. To do so, we analyze job listings for SMEs posted by US news companies in combination with interviews with SMEs. Employers play a…
I don’t engage: Online communication and social media use among New Zealand journalists
Social media, comment threads, and other means of online communication are important to journalists’ work processes, but expand their workload and pose challenges to their professional identity. The concept of ‘engagement’ is used by news workers in New Zealand to describe the role of digitally mediated communication in their work. Engagement deserves scholarly treatment akin to concepts such as ‘participatory journalism’ because it is employed b…
Journalism and Digital Labor: Experiences of Online News Production
This book investigates journalists’ work practices, professional ideologies, and the power relations that impact their work, arguing that reporters’ lives and livelihoods are shaped by digital technologies and new modes of capital accumulation. Tai Neilson weaves together ethnographic approaches and critical theories of digital labor. Journalists’ experiences are at the heart of the book, which is based on interviews with news workers from Aotear…
Social Media Editors and the Audience Funnel: Tensions between Commercial Pressures and Professional Norms in the Data-Saturated Newsroom
This article explores the changing roles of Social Media Editors (SMEs) in the field of journalism, focusing on their unique position as mediators between online news consumers, marketing departments, and newsrooms. Based on in-depth interviews, our findings suggest that, far beyond their origins as comment field moderators, SMEs now play a crucial role in integrating complex behavioral data from social network sites and circulating this data in …
Big Tech and News: A Critical Approach to Digital Platforms, Journalism, and Competition Law
Mobs, Crowds, and Trolls: Theorizing the Harassment of Journalists in the Philippines
Using the Philippines as a case study, we draw on crowd theory to understand how and why online mobs gather to harass reporters. Under Rodrigo Duterte’s presidency, his administration and supporters targeted independent journalism using violent tactics online and offline, including threats of rape, death, and doxing. Yet, when online mobs harass reporters it is not simply an extension of state censorship. Rather, understanding the dynamics that s…
Now Hiring Social Media Editors
Social Media Editors (SME) are involved in digital news circulation, engagement with online audiences, and the analysis and circulation of audience data. This article extends research on SMEs to investigate how employers make sense of these positions and the roles they are required to perform within news organizations. To do so, we analyze job listings for SMEs posted by US news companies in combination with interviews with SMEs. Employers play a…
Journalism unions and digital platform regulation: A critical discourse analysis of submissions to Australia's News Media Bargaining Code
Journalism unions are among the chorus of voices advocating for digital platform regulation. Yet, despite the documented impacts of platformisation on working conditions and labour markets, few of the recent inquiries into platform power have addressed the impacts of platforms on labour. In this article, we ask: what is the role of labour unions in shaping digital platform regulation? As our case study, we analysed how Australia's journalism unio…
Marxists Internet Archive Takedown
Administrators of the Marxists Internet Archive (MIA) removed the texts based on Marx and Engels' Collected Works (MECW) from their website on May 1, 2014.The works were taken down in compliance with a directive from the publisher Lawrence and Wishart (L&W) that claims ownership of the 50 volume collection.L&W's directive sought to retract these works -works by, arguably, two of the most important radical intellectuals that have been deceased for…
Journalism (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Media Studies and Communication (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Social media (4 works) · Social Media and Politics (4 works) · Citizen journalism (3 works)