Creating, Connecting and Correcting: Motivations and Meanings of Work-Blogging Amongst Public Service Workers?

Ellis, Vaughan; Richards, James

doi:10.1007/978-1-137-03671-1_15

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“…At the same time, employees are also engaged in an expanded use of the internet and social media ranging from the instrumental (job search) to ‘new and creative forms of misbehaviour’ (2013: 4). They argue that employees are aware of and react to employer surveillance (and other coercive practices) using social media, and especially blogging, to comment on and challenge corporate discourses through varieties of worker voice (Richards ; Ellis and Richards ; Schoneboom ). Similarly, Rose () uses a small case study of knowledge workers to explore how they use ICT to ‘exert control over the permeability of the boundary’ between paid work and personal life.…”

Section: Social Media and Public/private Boundariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Media(tion) and the Reshaping of Public/Private Boundaries in Employment Relations

McDonald

Thompson

2015

Int J Management Reviews

111

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Tensions surrounding social media in the employment relationship are increasingly evident in the media, public rhetoric, and courts and employment tribunals. Yet the underlying causes and dimensions of these tensions have remained largely unexplored. This article firstly reviews the available literature addressing social media and employment, outlining three primary sources of contestation: profiling, disparaging posts and blogs, and private use of social media during work time. In each area, the key dynamics and underlying concerns of the central actors involved are identified. The article then seeks to canvas explanations for these forms of contestation associated with social media at work. It is argued that the architecture of social media disrupts traditional relations in organisational life by driving employer and employee actions that (re)shape and (re)constitute the boundaries between public and private spheres. Although employers and employees are using the same social technologies, their respective concerns about and points of entry to these technologies, in contrast to traditional manifestations of conflict and resistance, are asymmetric. The article concludes with a representational summary of the relative legitimacy of concerns for organisational actors and outlines areas for future research

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Section: Social Media and Public/private Boundariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Media(tion) and the Reshaping of Public/Private Boundaries in Employment Relations

McDonald

Thompson

2015

Int J Management Reviews

111

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“…Other scholars study the use of blogs as an escape channel for displaying emotions, seeking identities, and resisting organizational control (Ellis and Richards 2009;Schoneboom 2007Schoneboom , 2008Richards 2008). In 2002, the case of Heather Armstrong, who was fired after writing about the annoying habits of managers and coworkers in her personal blog, sparked a fierce public debate because she was blogging from home and her writings did not name people and companies.…”

Section: Online Informal Resistancementioning

confidence: 97%

“…Critical studies on blogs and closed Internet groups (Cohen and Richards 2015;Ellis and Richards 2009;Richards 2008;Richards and Kosmala 2013;Sayers and Fachira 2015;Schoneboom 2007Schoneboom , 2008Schoneboom , 2011 have shown that workers find the Internet to be a media for collective identification detached from organizational culture. Therefore, we can also imagine that workers are not exchanging emotionologies, but rather following emotionologies of the Internet while defying emotionologies of work.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…Richards (2008) observes how work blogging created exciting new potential for self-organized and narrative-based forms of employee resistance. Ellis and Richards (2009) note that work blogging offers employees the possibility to connect to each other, as well as a voice that is free of hierarchy. Richards and Kosmala (2013) defend that being cynical gives bloggers a sense of critical distance from corporate culture initiatives and awareness of their professional community questions.…”

Section: Online Informal Resistancementioning

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The Online Unmanaged Organization: Control and Resistance in a Space with Blurred Boundaries

2016

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The unmanaged organization (Gabriel in Organ Stud 16:477-501, 1995) is moving from coffee corners to social networks. This means not only a change of media, but also a transformation in how organizations exert control over workers and how workers resist the commodification of emotions (Fineman, in: Fineman, Emotion in organizations, Sage, London, 2000; Lindebaum in J Manag Inq 21:262-277, 2012). After analyzing instances of the online publication of images and texts that escape organizational control, we identified three main ambiguities helpful in framing future studies about organizational control and resistance: ambiguity between private and public spheres, ambiguity between spontaneous and performed manifestations, and ambiguity between the distribution and control of power. Our main contribution is to understanding the Internet, particularly social networks, as a medium for employee resistance through distance (Collinson, in: Jermier et al., Resistance and power in organizations, Routledge, London, 1994), and in using the three aforementioned ambiguities to help analyze this phenomenon.

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“…Most research on workblogs has focused on how employees use them as a means of challenging workplace power structures and how they give employees a voice on workplace issues [4,5]. There is still little research on using workblogs as a tool of design inquiry.…”

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Reaching hard-to-reach users using online media to get a glimpse of work in marine contexts

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Mainsah

2013

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Creating, Connecting and Correcting: Motivations and Meanings of Work-Blogging Amongst Public Service Workers?

Cited by 16 publications

References 12 publications

Social Media(tion) and the Reshaping of Public/Private Boundaries in Employment Relations

Social Media(tion) and the Reshaping of Public/Private Boundaries in Employment Relations

The Online Unmanaged Organization: Control and Resistance in a Space with Blurred Boundaries

Reaching hard-to-reach users using online media to get a glimpse of work in marine contexts

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