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[Commlist] cfp: Emotional labour in media work

Tue Feb 22 10:42:36 GMT 2022




*Emotional labour in media work: trends, challenges, and opportunities *

28-29 April 2022, Middlesex University London


Abstract submission deadline: 1 March 2022

Abstracts are invited for a research symposium which is part of the project ‘Journalists’ emotional labour in the era of social media’, funded by theUK Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Emotional labour can be conceptualised as an effort to manage emotions which professional practitioners perceive as an integral part of their working life experience. In journalism it has primarily been investigated with reference to conflict and trauma reporting. More recently academic researchers have begun investigating the importance of emotions in journalism generally, but emotional labour more specifically. Current evidence suggests that journalism is an occupation characterised with high levels of emotional labour. Journalists use and manage emotions to motivate themselves for work. Emotions evoked at work can be intertwined with those from personal life. Indeed, work-related emotions can also be evoked outside of the story production process, for example in dealing with audiences and harassment, as well as being induced by working conditions (e.g., precarious pay, working hours, job insecurity), work relationships (e.g., within newsroom, with editors), the competitive nature of work, and so on. Importantly, there is evidence to suggest that if work-related emotions are not effectively managed, they can have negative consequences on journalists’ mental and physical health, job satisfaction, and the quality of the journalism being produced.

While papers investigating any aspect of journalists’ emotional labour are welcome, this symposium will provide an opportunity to widen the discussion of emotional labour beyond the scope of ‘Journalists’ emotional labour in the era of social media’ project, by broadening the discussion to consider this area of research more generally in the context of media work. There is some evidence that other types of media work might also be high emotional labour occupations, such as work with media photography, management of media outlets’ social media, stringer work etc.

Both theoretical and empirically informed papers are invited, focusing on topics such as (but not limited to):

- the causes and consequences of emotional labour in journalism and other media work - the relationship between journalists’ freedom and safety and emotional labour
- emotional labour in the context of precarious employment in media
- the impact of covid-19 pandemic on media workers’ emotional labour
- the impact of social media on media workers’ emotional labour
- the impact of digital transformations on media workers’ emotional labour
- the relationship between media workers’ emotional labour and digital technologies - emotional labour in areas such as photojournalism, camera work, directing, editing/post-production, stringer work, social media journalism, public relations etc.
- strategies for managing emotional labour in media work
- institutional/industry perspectives on media workers’ emotional labour
- support systems for media workers’ emotional labour


Abstracts of around 300 words should be sent to (m.simunjak /at/ mdx.ac.uk) by *1 March 2022*. Abstract notifications will be sent out by 10 March 2022.

Attendance is free. The panels for the research symposium will be held online on 28 April and a public roundtable on 29 April will be organised in a hybrid format, allowing for on-site and online participation. Tickets (free) for the*roundtable 'Dealing with online abuse in journalism'*can be booked here - https://bit.ly/3I9y2M4 <https://bit.ly/3I9y2M4>

Opportunities for publishing selected papers in a journal special issue will be explored after the symposium.

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