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Disconnection: How Measured Separations From Journalistic Norms and Labor Can Help Sustain Journalism

“…Research has implicitly and explicitly shown how journalists have used forms of disconnection to mediate organizational social media policies to prevent trolling and harassment (Miller & Lewis, 2020) and to protect themselves from the negative effects of institutional support for professionalized social media practices (Molyneux, 2019; see also Opgenhaffen & d'Haenens, 2015). These impacts have been expressed as frustration with increased affective labor, dissatisfaction with the culture on particular social media platforms, and anxiety about the effects of web metrics and social media use on professional reputation or subjective well-being (Bélair-Gagnon, 2019;Bossio & Holton, 2019;Petre, 2021). Journalists broadly negotiate disconnection according to individual experiences and needs, the latter of which often includes the need to remain employed by following organizational mandates or norms.…”

The pandemic shock doctrine in an authoritarian context: the economic, bodily, and political precarity of Turkey’s journalists during the pandemic

“…Drawing from scholarship that has dewesternized journalism studies on censorship and destabilized crude distinctions between the market and state (Repnikova, 2018;Roudakova, 2017), we urge journalism and media labor studies to question their theoretical investments steeped in Eurocentricism and technological determinism that center the standard employment model and the disruptive cultures of technology at the expense of the body and state. Drawing on the political economy of journalism (Compton and Benedetti, 2010;Pickard, 2017), studies on journalistic labor (Cohen, 2016;Petre, 2021), authoritarianism and news production cultures (Repnikova, 2018;Roudakova, 2017), and social theory on pandemics as laboratories for social innovation (Mitropoulos, 2020), we ask: What happens to journalists when they are hit by a pandemic in a country governed by authoritarian media regulations? How is on-the-ground reporting impacted?…”