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Nicole Cohen

@nicolecohen.bsky.social

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I research labour and media. Associate Professor, ICCIT, University of Toronto. Books: New Media Unions: Organizing Digital Journalists and Writers’ Rights: Freelance Journalism in a Digital Age

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Nicole Cohen @nicolecohen.bsky.social · 16d

Book launch! The Labor of Architecture: Creativity, Design, and the Building of a New Class Consciousness by C.G. Beck. 10/24 in Toronto. www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-labour...

The Labour of Architecture: Book Launch + Panel Discussion

Join us for a book talk + panel discussion to celebrate the release of The Labor of Architecture, by C. G. Beck.

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404 Media @404media.co · 15d

A new study, based on a survey of 1,150 workers suggests that the injection of AI tools into the workplace has not resulted in a magic productivity boom and instead increased the amount of time that workers say they spend fixing low-quality AI-generated “work.”

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AI ‘Workslop’ Is Killing Productivity and Making Workers Miserable

AI slop is taking over workplaces. Workers said that they thought of their colleagues who filed low-quality AI work as "less creative, capable, and reliable than they did before receiving the output."

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Nicole Cohen @nicolecohen.bsky.social · 15d

The Canadian Communication Association will host its 2026 conference at the University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario June 2-4, 2026. Call for papers in French and English: acc-cca.ca/index.php/co...

CCA 2026 // June 2-4 // Windsor – Canadian Communication Association

Nicole Cohen @nicolecohen.bsky.social · 16d

Book launch! The Labor of Architecture: Creativity, Design, and the Building of a New Class Consciousness by C.G. Beck. 10/24 in Toronto. www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-labour...

The Labour of Architecture: Book Launch + Panel Discussion

Join us for a book talk + panel discussion to celebrate the release of The Labor of Architecture, by C. G. Beck.

www.eventbrite.ca

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 28d

“The fact that the strikers are still standing is the product of a once-in-a-generation collision between an exceptionally dedicated union and an eccentric family unwilling to accept anything short of the union’s dissolution.”

Stop the Presses | Tadhg Larabee

In Pittsburgh, one newsroom has been on strike for more than two years. Something has to give. Will it be the workers?

Nicole Cohen @nicolecohen.bsky.social · Sep 2

Call for Papers: Control, Survival, Struggle: Rethinking and Renewing Vincent Mosco’s Political Economy of Communication. A special issue of Work Organisation, Labour & Globalization I'm co-editing w/ @ursulahuws.bsky.social, Leslie Shade, and Catherine McKercher wolg.wordpress.com/special-issu...

Call for papers: special issue on the legacy of Vincent Mosco

Special issue of Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation on Control, Survival, Struggle: Rethinking and Renewing Vincent Mosco’s Political Economy of Communication The theme When…

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Nicole Cohen @nicolecohen.bsky.social · Aug 18

The Political Economy of News Media and Journalism by @errolsalamon.bsky.social‬: doi.org/10.1093/acre...

... and more to come!

Nicole Cohen @nicolecohen.bsky.social · Aug 18

Telecommunications Policy by @christopherali.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1093/acre...

Nicole Cohen @nicolecohen.bsky.social · Aug 18

Mexico Digital Media/Industries by Rodrigo Gómez and César Bárcenas: doi.org/10.1093/acre...

Nicole Cohen @nicolecohen.bsky.social · Aug 18

Alternative/Activist Media and Practice by Alessandra Renzi: doi.org/10.1093/acre...

Nicole Cohen @nicolecohen.bsky.social · Aug 18

The Labor of Newswork and Journalism by Tai Neilson: doi.org/10.1093/acre...

Nicole Cohen @nicolecohen.bsky.social · Aug 18

Global Political Economy, Platforms and Media Industries by Dal Yong Jin: doi.org/10.1093/acre...

Nicole Cohen @nicolecohen.bsky.social · Aug 18

The Political Economy of U.S. Sports Media by Jennifer Proffitt (@iamapghfan.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/acre...

Nicole Cohen @nicolecohen.bsky.social · Aug 18

The Political Economy of Museums by @camillemarys.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1093/acre...

Nicole Cohen @nicolecohen.bsky.social · Aug 18

It’s syllabus season! For your consideration, some new articles I helped commission for the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication’s political economy section:

Political Economy of Advertising by @matthewcrain.bsky.social and Lee McGuigan: doi.org/10.1093/acre...

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Aug 15

teachers!

excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.

take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com

against-a-i.com

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Madison Trusolino @madisontrusolino.bsky.social · Aug 15

@aircanada.bsky.social does not pay their flight attendants for essential duties that they perform.

The quality of the Air Canada flight experience has plummeted & flight prices have skyrocketed, but AC can't be bothered to properly pay their crew.

Take action here: unfaircanada.com

Home | Unfair Canada

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Nicole Cohen @nicolecohen.bsky.social · Aug 11

We look at 69 contracts negotiated during the new media union movement’s most active years, and find that worker-led, collective bargaining can materially and meaningfully address equity and diversity in media.

Nicole Cohen @nicolecohen.bsky.social · Aug 11

New article out in Media Industries on how media workers tackle equity from below via collective bargaining, co-authored with @madisontrusolino.bsky.social and Natasha Grzincic. Open access: journals.publishing.umich.edu/mij/article/...

Diversity and Equity from Below: Media Worker Unions and Collective Bargaining

This article examines how media workers tackle equity and diversity from below via collective bargaining. In a review of 69 contracts negotiated during the new media union movement’s most active years...

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C ✊ UVW-CWA @ckjong.bsky.social · Jul 29

A great blog post by @amandatobinripley.bsky.social about our panel discussion on worker organizing in the cultural industries at the National Council on Public History Conference earlier this year. It was an honour to be there alongside some amazing organizers/researchers.
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Labors of love and organizing for solidarity within, across, and beyond the cultural industries | National Council on Public History

At NCPH's annual meeting in Montreal this year, one session focused on how workers across industries are demanding structural change through an unprecedented wave of labor organizing.

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · Jul 15

you've heard about the college kids who can't do anything without ChatGPT's help—but what about the students who oppose generative A.I. for myriad reasons and refuse to rely on it as a shortcut? well, I found and spoke with a few of them here: slate.com/life/2025/07...

What It’s Like to Be a Student Who Hates ChatGPT

“Everyone is using it”—almost everyone.

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CWA Canada, The Media Union @cwacanada1.bsky.social · Jun 6

Solidarity with our CP members seeking a fair wage hike after years of falling behind.

Canadian Media Guild - La Guilde canadienne des médias @cmglaguilde.bsky.social · Jun 5

In Solidarity ✊
@cdnpress.bsky.social @theglobeandmail.com @thestar.com @lapresse.ca @laftq.bsky.social
#cdnpoli #canlab #canmedia #onpoli #polqc #bcpoli #abpoli #skpoli #mbpoli #nbpoli #nspoli #peipoli #nlpoli #yukonpoli #nwtpoli #nunavutpoli

Nicole Cohen @nicolecohen.bsky.social · Jun 1

This blog post is based on a chapter we recently published in The Handbook of Digital Labour

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The Handbook of Digital Labor

<p><b>Provides a global perspective on labor and technology, exploring resistance, solidarity, and alternatives in digital capitalism</b></p> <p>The <i>Handbook of Digital Labor</i> critically examin...

Nicole Cohen @nicolecohen.bsky.social · Jun 1

For @poweratwork.bsky.social, Greig de Peuter and I wrote about the tensions and affinities between unions and co-ops in media, culture and tech poweratwork.us/unions-coops...

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · May 29

Apart from its obvious threat to labor, the problem with AI in journalism is that **by its nature** it cannot ever be accountable--its choices are not transparent--and therefore replacing any work from human journalists with AI is just plain unethical.

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