E‐Communications: An Aspect of Union Renewal or Merely Doing Things Electronically?

Kerr, Allan; Waddington, Jeremy

doi:10.1111/bjir.12010

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“…Greene et al 2003;Pulignano 2009;Whittall et al 2009). A study of Unison's virtual branches in the United Kingdom confirmed the importance of remote engagement for atypical members, although sustaining such initiatives requires considerable support and resources (Kerr and Waddington 2013). A study of Unison's virtual branches in the United Kingdom confirmed the importance of remote engagement for atypical members, although sustaining such initiatives requires considerable support and resources (Kerr and Waddington 2013).…”

Section: Background: Ict In Union Communicationsmentioning

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Social Media in Union Communications: An International Study with UNI Global Union Affiliates

Panagiotopoulos

Barnett²

2014

Brit J Industrial Rel

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This article assesses the use of social media in union communications based on an international survey with 149 unions affiliated with UNI Global Union. High expectations of union modernization, leadership and pressures from members are likely to drive the agenda of social media within unions. However, the actual use of different channels is based on organizational variables such as membership base and participation in communities of practice. Beliefs about the anticipated benefits and risks of social media were not found to be influential in these early assessments. Implications for union communication strategies are discussed.

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Section: Background: Ict In Union Communicationsmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…As Kerr and Waddington (2013) note, online communication initiatives usually come along debates of renewal in union structures and democratic processes. Hence, the Internet cannot only be treated as an add-on that is likely to enhance communications but also as an element of union transformation.…”

Section: Background: Ict In Union Communicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Media in Union Communications: An International Study with UNI Global Union Affiliates

Panagiotopoulos

Barnett²

2014

Brit J Industrial Rel

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“…(10) This strongly reminds of Kerr and Waddington [23]'s study of UNISON. Online participation in the Green Party might also start out with limited uptake in the beginning followed by a steady rise of participation by previously underrepresented groups.…”

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confidence: 66%

“…A study of the introduction of virtual branches in UNISON showed that a transition to online processes is surprisingly complicated [23]. Although nowadays an email address is typically collected along with address information, the union was founded before the internet, and thus did not have this data for all their members.…”

Section: The Internet In Organisationsmentioning

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“…For example, Kerr and Waddington [23] described the implementation of online branches in a trade union, Jackson and Lilleker [22] investigated the effect social media has on political communication, and Gibson and Cantijoch [10] compared online and offline participation. However, to date there has been little research specifically on the role the internet plays and how it influences the decision-making processes in parties themselves.…”

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Internet use, in- and exclusion in decision-making processes within political parties

Thuermer

Roth

Luczak-Rösch

et al. 2016

Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Web Science

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This paper investigates the effect of internet-use on democratic decision-making processes within political parties. Through two case studies of the Green Party and the Pirate Party Germany, the influence of internet-use on these processes and their inclusiveness are shown. We argue that how the internet is used in democratic processes impacts on participation and inclusion.How internet technology interacts with decision making processes within parties depends on the existing party structure and culture. Thus, in order to achieve meaningful and inclusive participation, the institutional framework and the influence it has must be considered in process and tool design. Whereas the affordances of specific online tools have been evaluated, the institutional context in which they are embedded have so far been widely ignored. We offer a structure for analysis of these foundations.

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Jansson¹,

Uba²

2019

Trade Unions on YouTube

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This chapter briefly describes the goal and general argument of the book, along with its theoretical framework and data collection, and introduces the Swedish case. First, we set the discussion of labour movements' trade union revitalization and usage of social media-and particularly of YouTube-into the broader context of scholarly literature. Second, we introduce the Swedish case and compare the videos uploaded by Swedish trade unions with those uploaded by trade union confederations in other European countries. We also explain why we are investigating trade unions representing different social classes-namely, the working class, middle class and upper middle class. Third, we briefly describe the data collection and coding process and explain the methods of analysis used in this book: the rough metadata-based analysis of all videos uploaded by Swedish trade unions to YouTube during the period 2007-2017 (a total of 4535 videos), the detailed qualitative content analysis of 624 randomly selected videos and a qualitative analysis of 60 videos. Keywords Revitalization • Trade unions • Social classes • YouTube • Metadata 'What does a woman need to do to get a raise?' This question, posed in a YouTube video produced by the Swedish Municipal Workers'

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E‐Communications: An Aspect of Union Renewal or Merely Doing Things Electronically?

Cited by 36 publications

References 16 publications

Social Media in Union Communications: An International Study with UNI Global Union Affiliates

Social Media in Union Communications: An International Study with UNI Global Union Affiliates

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