Communicative labor resistance practices: organizing digital news media unions and precarious work

IF 4.7 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Communication Theory Pub Date : 2022-12-28 DOI:10.1093/ct/qtac023

Errol Salamon

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Abstract

Unionization among newsworkers has increased in the U.S. since 2015. This article develops a relational theoretical framework to examine communicative labor resistance practices. It is grounded in critical organizational communication, social movement studies, sociology of work, and labor studies, responding to how newsworkers’ union resistance has been undertheorized in extant journalism and media studies research. It argues that communicative labor resistance practices should be based on three propositions: a dialectical process and continual cycle of organizing unions’ resistance and exploitative precarious work; the relationship among heterogenous alternative digital communication labor resistance practices; and a relational approach to digitally-mediated communicative material conditions and discursive forms of resistance rhetoric in social movement genres of organizational communication that mutually co-produce and constitute unions’ resistance practices and organizational self-structuring. This framework has implications for understanding precarious work, class, professional identity, and journalism’s democratic role in society, and for doing labor resistance-oriented communication research.

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沟通性劳动抵抗实践:组织数字新闻媒体工会与不稳定工作

自2015年以来，美国新闻工作者的工会化有所增加。本文发展了一个相关的理论框架来研究交往性劳动抵抗实践。它以批判性组织沟通、社会运动研究、工作社会学和劳动研究为基础，回应了新闻工作者工会抵抗在现有的新闻和媒体研究中是如何被理论化的。本文认为，交流劳动抵抗实践应基于三个命题:组织工会抵抗与剥削不稳定工作的辩证过程和持续循环;异质替代性数字通信劳动抵抗实践的关系以及对组织沟通的社会运动类型中数字媒介的沟通物质条件和抵抗修辞的话语形式的关系方法，它们相互共同产生并构成了工会的抵抗实践和组织的自我结构。这一框架对理解不稳定工作、阶级、职业身份和新闻在社会中的民主角色，以及从事以劳工抵抗为导向的传播研究具有启示意义。

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Communication Theory COMMUNICATION-

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