1. Gaziantep Yerel Medyasında Çalışan Gazetecilerin Prekaryalaşma Deneyimleri.
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ŞEN, Revşan
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JOB descriptions , *WORK environment , *JOB security , *LOCAL mass media , *SOCIAL institutions - Abstract
The deepening of precarity in working conditions has led to an increase in studies on the concept of precariat. With the impact of neoliberal policies, the transience and uncertainty of many phenomena other than the risk factor deeply affects all areas of life, especially the working conditions of employees. These relatively new conditions, which affect workers in many fields regardless of profession, age, gender and geography, subject media workers to precariousness in Turkey as in the world. This study aims to analyse the working conditions of journalists working in local media, which has the potential to strengthen local democracies as an important social institution, in the context of the precarity debates. In this qualitative study, semi-structured interviews were conducted with a total of ten local journalists. As a result of the interviews, it was observed that journalists were worried about being dismissed at any time and that female journalists had to postpone decisions such as marriage and childbirth within this uncertainty. In a local media environment where everyone knows each other, the competition between local journalists, who are too few in number to develop solidarity networks, leads to a more intense experience of precariousness. In addition, it has been determined that journalists, who lack employment security, feel obliged to undertake every job demanded by employers in order not to be dismissed from their jobs in this environment of competition and uncertainty. Considering these forms of precariousness that they feel intensely, it has been concluded that precarious working conditions are reproduced due to the choice that local journalists feel obliged to make between a small number of local media organisations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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