Media, Information and Technoculture 1050A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: A Golden Age, Deskilling, Henry Blodget

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 1050A/B
• Professor: Paul Benedetti

Document Summary

Controversy: capitalism + technological change , reduction in boring, routine labour by good, high-skilled knowledge jobs, or. In parts of the media supply chain not very visible to north americans. Case study of media work: exemplifies ideal of media professionalism. It is exciting work, work in which brings some autonomy and self direction, work that is strongly associated with a sense of social responsibility, it is work that involves investigating news reporting (cid:374)e(cid:449)s that (cid:862)speaks truth to po(cid:449)er(cid:863) Journalists do this kind of work sometimes at great risk (risk of their careers and even sometimes their lives) Tough times for journalists: layoffs of professional journalists, more precarious work short-term contracts, dependence on internships (low pay/no pay) He(cid:374)ry blodget: (cid:862)a golde(cid:374) age of jour(cid:374)alis(cid:373)(cid:863: owner on-line news business insider, advocate of digital distribution of news, opportunities for self-employed freelancers and volunteer journalists.