[Commlist] New Book: New Media Unions

*Book announcement: New Media Unions

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New Media Unions: Organizing Digital Journalists

Nicole S. Cohen and Greig de Peuter

Book website: http://www.newmediaunions.com <http://www.newmediaunions.com>

 From BuzzFeed to the /Los Angeles Times/, over 70 newsrooms have 
unionized since 2015. /New Media Unions/ documents a historic and 
ongoing moment in the digital media industry that has brought thousands 
of media workers into the labour movement. Based on interviews with 
journalists and union organizers, the book maps the process of labour 
organizing, foregrounding journalists’ voices.

Cohen and de Peuter examine what motivates union drives, then follow 
journalists through the making of a union from scratch. They explore how 
journalists strategically self-organize, apply their communication 
skills to alternative ends, generate affective bonds of solidarity, and 
build power to confront anti-union campaigns and bargain first 
contracts, winning significant gains and drafting a new labour code for 
journalism in a digital age.

The book demonstrates that if journalism is to have a future, it must be 
organized. /New Media Unions/ shows that labour organizing is not just 
about improving working conditions for individuals. It is a broader 
effort to build organizational infrastructure to transform journalism, 
making it more accessible and inclusive for those whose commitment to 
journalistic ideals keeps them in such a volatile industry.

Early praise for /New Media Unions/:

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“Cohen and de Peuter have written a timely and invaluable book based on 
meticulous research and trenchant analysis. The recent surge of labor 
organizing within media institutions deserves far more attention and 
this pioneering work promises to become a field-defining text in 
journalism studies and political economy. Underscoring the vital need 
for unionizing journalists, this book should be required reading for 
anyone seeking to understand the central role of class politics and 
increasing precarity within the rapidly changing media landscape”

- Victor Pickard, author of Journalism Without Democracy: Confronting 
the Misinformation Society **

“At once informative and inspiring, /New Media Unions/ is a remarkable 
book about dramatic recent changes in both the virtual networks and 
class relations of North America. Cohen and de Peuter show how 
unionization has seized the imagination of young journalists in digital 
newsrooms across North America. Rigorously researched and analytically 
sharp, yet eminently readable, /New Media Unions/ challenges every 
preconception about individualistic digital culture, depoliticized 
millennials and the futility of workplace organizing: it shows the path 
to a workers’ Internet.”

- Nick Dyer-Witheford, author of Cyber-Proletariat: Global Labour in the 
Digital Vortex

A Timeline of Digital Media Unionization

Visit our organizing timeline chronicling successful union drives from 
2015 to the present: https://newmediaunions.com/timeline 
<https://newmediaunions.com/timeline>

Available in e-book and hardcover: 
https://www.routledge.com/New-Media-Unions-Organizing-Digital-Journalists-1st-Edition/Cohen-de-Peuter/p/book/9781138327115 
<https://www.routledge.com/New-Media-Unions-Organizing-Digital-Journalists-1st-Edition/Cohen-de-Peuter/p/book/9781138327115>

20% discount code:HUT20

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