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Errol Salamon Aug 24, 2024

🚨I’m excited to share my article with Rebecca Saunders, “Domination and the Arts of Digital Resistance in Social Media Creator Labor,” has been published in Social Media + Society thanks to funding from SIGN, University of Huddersfield and University of Stirling.

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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20563051241269318

Errol Salamon May 25, 2024

I'm thrilled to share my article commentary, "Negotiating Technological Change: How Media Unions Navigate Artificial Intelligence in Journalism," has just been published in Journalism & Communication Monographs. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/15226379241239758

Errol Salamon Sep 2, 2023

Excited that my new journal article has been published in Media, Culture & Society on “Happiness in newsroom contracts: Communicative resistance for digital work and life satisfaction.” I analyze the Writers Guild of America, East’s contracts for online media workers. Check it out open access! https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01634437231191353

Errol Salamon Feb 22, 2023

Join me and Chelsea Reynolds in Washington, DC in August for this AEJMC pre-conference on strategies to address the financial aspects of the academic labor in our fields.

DM or email for the Google form to express interest: e.salamon@ hud.ac.uk.

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Errol Salamon Feb 18, 2023

I’ve been invited to give a talk this Tuesday, Feb 21 on digital media unions, co-sponsored by the Center for Global Studies at Purdue University Northwest. Join me and this impressive group of presenters on Zoom by registering at the link ⬇️👨‍🏫 https://www.pnw.edu/event/global-collective-action-seminar/
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Global Collective Action Seminar - Purdue University Northwest

A Zoom seminar Co-Presented by the PNW Center for Global Studies meant to spark awareness for topics of race, social justice, human rights, environment, and global barriers to positive societal change.

Purdue University Northwest

Errol Salamon Feb 10, 2023

Here's a good overview in Editor & Publisher of the momentum that U.S. news unions have been building since 2022 with The NewsGuild. As one newsworker puts it, "We want to save local journalism, and we’re asking for a path to do that with the company." https://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/labor-puts-it-all-on-the-line,242054
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Labor puts it all on the line. 2022 was a banner year for union membership, walkouts and strikes

There’s something palpable happening across the U.S. news media landscape. 2022 was a year when unions gained momentum and seized new leveraging power. They deployed tactics like social media campaigns, lobbying, walkouts and strikes to garner public support and implore news publishers to the bargaining table.

Editor and Publisher

Errol Salamon Feb 8, 2023

You know it’s a good meeting when your colleague tells your student to read your work.👨‍🏫

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1461444819861958

Errol Salamon Jan 12, 2023

Excited that 2/2 of my papers have been accepted for presentation at the @ICAHDQ conference, focusing on digital communicative labor resistance as well as digital journalism unions’ perceptions of industry and workplace changes. It’ll be extra nice to go home to Toronto! #ica23

Errol Salamon Jan 10, 2023

Annenberg School @ Penn Jan 10, 2023

🔊 Call for Applications! The Center on Digital Culture and Society (CDCS) is accepting applications for Post-doctoral Fellowships, 2023-2024. Submit by February 14, 2023: https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/cdcs-call-applications-post-doctoral-fellowships-2023-2024

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CDCS Call for Applications for Post-doctoral Fellowships, 2023-2024

Errol Salamon Jan 1, 2023

New Year’s Resolution: Recognizing that #quietquitting was just a new TikTok name for the centuries-old union tactic of working to rule.
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https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2022-in-review/the-year-in-quiet-quitting

The Year in Quiet Quitting

Cal Newport writes from a generational perspective about the phenomenon of quiet quitting, in which workers cultivate a philosophy of non-engagement in the workplace in favor of enhanced work-life balance.

The New Yorker