Reframing everyday life. Implications of social distancing in Italy

Pronzato, Riccardo; Risi, Elisabetta

doi:10.1108/ijssp-07-2020-0350

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“…Accordingly, one might find no clear boundaries between personal and professional identities in a digitally organized work culture, which could, in turn, exacerbate the feeling of anxiety among employees (Risi and Pronzato, 2021). OCS has also intensified the flow of information among news workers, making them less able to focus on their work and experience a more stressful job (Pronzato and Risi, 2022). Moreover, OCS has encouraged news staff to communicate with each other via platform-mediated spaces rather than physical contact, even when journalists work in the same workplace.…”

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How online collaboration software shapes control at work? Evidence from news organizations

Omidi

Zotto

2023

IJSSP

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PurposeOnline collaboration software (OCS), such as Slack and Microsoft Teams, has become widespread among news organizations as these tools help news workers collaborate across different locations and make communication more efficient inside newsrooms. While such technologies are increasingly employed as teamwork productivity boosters, the authors’ knowledge of their potential role in shaping control mechanisms and power dynamics within news work is limited. This paper addresses how different types of control may emerge within virtual newsrooms being operated by OCS. The purpose of this paper is to address this issue.Design/methodology/approachThe paper employs an interview-based qualitative method and provides evidence gathered from 20 interviews with digital journalists and media managers representing 11 online news media in Switzerland.FindingsThe findings reveal how OCS could lead to various control mechanisms in the workplace by directing, evaluating and disciplining journalists in specific ways. This study suggests that while OCS can be valuable in boosting collaborations among news staff, it might create a situation where journalists are less able to focus on their work and creative activities. Most importantly, OCS bolsters an “always-on” work culture in news media and removes obstacles for employers and managers to invade journalists' space, time and mind.Originality/valueBy focusing on three aspects of control mechanisms, including direction, evaluation and discipline, this paper contributes to a better understanding of the role of OCS in shaping control and power dynamics within news media organizations.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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How online collaboration software shapes control at work? Evidence from news organizations

Omidi

Zotto

2023

IJSSP

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“…The dependency of our social structures and personal lives on digital platforms has become an even more central issue for educators since the emergence of COVID-19 and the following social distancing restrictions (Pronzato and Risi, 2022), which have favored an extension of the dominance of digital (Western) platforms. Given this scenario, it has become even more evident how these systems have a "profoundly existential significance" (Frosh, 2018: 3), as they are crucial "participants in a continual symbolic interaction process whereby our understandings of self, other, and our social worlds are co-constituted" (Markham, 2015: 5).…”

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Returning to critical pedagogy in a world of datafication

Pronzato

Markham

2023

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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The COVID-19 pandemic prompted a further extension of the sociotechnical logics of digital platforms to every realm of social life. Given the colonialist, oppressive and exploitative dynamics through which digital platforms work, several scholars supported the need to embrace an openly activist role to help individuals contrast the ways in which they are trapped in loops of dependency and trajectorism. Drawing on the results of 40 auto-ethnographic diaries, this paper showcases the usefulness of critical pedagogical techniques in enhancing critical awareness regarding hegemonic datafication structures, while also arguing that despite a good level of consciousness raising, it remains difficult for people to go beyond subalternity and make more concrete changes in personal and collective behaviors. We contend that to break persistent feelings of dependency, it is necessary to go further with a two-step process combining autoethnographic tools, aimed at increasing critical algorithmic awareness, with the development of data science skills that can help individuals acquiring more precise knowledge schemes and scaling down the power of giant corporations, thereby building individual and collective capacities to use data for developing counter-narratives about possible futures.

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Exploring the linkage between workplace precaution measures, covid-19 fear and job performance: The moderating effect of academic competence

Chaudhry,

Rasool,

Raza

et al. 2023

Curr Psychol

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The coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) has created emerging mental health challenges around the world. Like other countries, Pakistan is also confronted with covid-19 calamities. The aim of the study is to examine the impacts of workplace measures (WM) on the job performance (JP) and covid-19 fears (CF) along with the moderating role of academic competence (AC) based on the organizational support theory (OST) and job demand and resources (JDR) theory. A quantitative approach was applied to collect data from 333 banking employees in Gujranwala (Pakistan), and the hypothesis were tested via structural equation modeling using SPSS and AMOS. The study findings indicate that workplace measures significantly affect covid-19 fears except for individual preventive measures (IPM). Similarly, workplace measures significantly impact on job performance apart from information about the pandemic (IAP). Moreover, academic competence insignificantly moderates between workplace measures and covid-19 fears, but a significant moderation is found between information about pandemic (IAP) and covid-19 fears. Meanwhile, academic competence significantly moderates between workplace measures and job performance instead of a relationship between information about pandemic and job performance. However, this study was limited only to the banking sector of Pakistan. So, it will open the doors for future researchers to investigate other cultural contexts and sectors. This research gives a holistic understanding of workplace measures and contributes to the body of knowledge by enlightening the moderating role of academic competence in the banking sector of Pakistan. These useful insights would enable practitioners and policy makers to develop more efficient strategies and workplace measures to enhance job performance and reduce the fears of covid-19 among employees.

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Reframing everyday life. Implications of social distancing in Italy

Cited by 5 publications

References 36 publications

How online collaboration software shapes control at work? Evidence from news organizations

How online collaboration software shapes control at work? Evidence from news organizations

Returning to critical pedagogy in a world of datafication

Exploring the linkage between workplace precaution measures, covid-19 fear and job performance: The moderating effect of academic competence

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