[ecrea] Call for Abstracts - Journalists' Working Lives in Flux: New Challenges, New Opportunities? @ The 9th Nordic Work Life Conference

Call for Abstracts
Session 3: Journalists' Working Lives in Flux: New Challenges, New 
Opportunities?
The 9th Nordic Work Life Conference
Oslo 13 – 15 June 2018

Session description:

The journalistic profession has undergone significant changes in the 
last two decades. Increased competition, technological developments and 
organizational changes have all been analysed as factors that have 
contributed to the changing conditions of journalistic work. In 
democratic countries all over the world professional journalists have 
faced redundancies, their labour has been casualized, they have suffered 
shortages of equipment and resources and often lost control over the 
spaces that they work in. At the same time journalism's role in these 
democracies (mainly as watchdogs and as providers of a voice to those 
who are under-represented) has been questioned by some (including very 
powerful politicians like Donald Trump but also journalists themselves 
who question whether they have become disconnected from "ordinary" people).
How do journalists negotiate these new conditions of work and the 
broader changes that their profession faces? What are the impacts of 
precarious labour, budget cuts and overall worsening material conditions 
of work on journalists' working lives and their well-being? How much 
control do journalists exercise over the material conditions and spaces 
of their work (considering in particular that autonomy forms a 
cornerstone of their professional identity in democratic societies)? 
What differences do we find in journalists' working conditions in 
different countries? How do the casualization of journalistic labour and 
increased competition contribute towards concerns about journalists' 
safety and security, for example, in relation to the increasing numbers 
of unaffiliated/freelancing journalists who cover news from war zones 
and places of armed conflict? How have news organizations’ 
labour-related practices developed as a response to the challenges that 
the journalistic profession faces? These are some of the questions that 
session participants may want to address, however, contributions to the 
session can also cover other relevant issues.

Key words: journalistic work, precarious labour, news organizations, 
conditions of work

Organizers:
Dr Monika Metykova
University of Sussex, UK
Email: (m.metykova /at/ sussex.ac.uk)

Dr Lenka Waschkova Cisarova
Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Email: (cisarova /at/ fss.muni.cz)

Abstracts of maximum 500 words can be submitted directly to the session 
organizers or via the conference website 
http://www.fafo.no/index.php/en/events/all-events/item/nwlc-2018-abstract-submission

Please note that the deadline for abstract submission is 15 November 
2017 and decision notifications will be sent by 1 December 2017.


Dr. Monika Metykova
Director of Recruitment and Admissions
School of Media, Film and Music
Silverstone Building Room 304
University of Sussex
Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9RH

Tel. +44 1273 877387
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