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E-Lancer Resistance

Precarious freelance journalists use digital communications to refuse rights-grabbing contracts

Errol SalamonDepartment of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University, CanadaCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 980-1000 | Published online: 13 Jan 2016

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Maria Norbäck. (2021) Back to the future of journalist work? Entrepreneurial subjectivity and freelance journalism in Sweden. Journalism 24:4, pages 785-802.
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Holly Patrick-Thomson & Michael Kranert. (2020) Don’t Work for Free: Online Discursive Resistance to Precarity in Commercial Photography. Work, Employment and Society 35:6, pages 1034-1052.
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Maria Norbäck. (2019) Glimpses of resistance: Entrepreneurial subjectivity and freelance journalist work. Organization 28:3, pages 426-448.
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Maria Norbäck & Alexander Styhre. (2019) Making it work in free agent work: The coping practices of Swedish freelance journalists. Scandinavian Journal of Management 35:4, pages 101076.
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Andrew Arthur Fitzgerald. (2019) “Mapping” Media Spaces: Smoothness, Striation, and the Expropriation of Desire in American Journalism from Postindustrial to Datafied Capitalism. Communication Theory 29:4, pages 401-420.
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