For Publishers
DiscoveryMetadataPeer reviewHostingPublishing
For Researchers
JoinPublishReviewCollect
Register
Blog
About
Search
Advanced search
My ScienceOpen
Search
For Publishers
For Researchers
Blog
About
342
views
32
references
 Top references
cited by
2
    
0 reviews
 Review
0
comments
 Comment
0
recommends
+1 Recommend
1 collections
    0
    shares
      200
      similar
       All similar

      Call for Papers: Hierarchies of domesticity – spatial and social boundaries. Deadline for submissions is 30th September, 2024. Full details can be read here.

      Articles to be no longer than 6,000 words (excluding footnotes and bibliography) and submitted in two forms: an anonymised version in which all references to the authors’ institution and publications are omitted; and a full version including the authors’ titles and institutional affiliations. For complete instructions on style, formatting, etc., please consult: https://www.plutojournals.com/wp-content/uploads/WOLG-Instructions-for-Authors2023.pdf 

      scite_

      Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation

      Volume 4, Issue 2
       
      • Record: found
      • Abstract: found
      • Article: found
      Is Open Access

      Blogging the Writers Strike: Identity, Interaction and Engagement for Collective Action

      Published
      research-article
      Author(s):
      Publication date (Print):
      Journal: Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation
      Publisher: Pluto Journals
      Bookmark

            Abstract

            This study examines the role of weblogs as sites for negotiating collective identity, arguing that strategic deployment of blogs may encourage greater identification with collective actions by a wider variety of individuals. This case study of the Writers Guild of America blog United Hollywood, shows that its structure and publication policies were successful in mobilising a variety of stakeholders to identify as a collective. Qualitative analysis of form and content suggests that the communality provided by the blog allowed the WGA to leverage benefits of traditional institutional collective action space and to augment these with benefits provided by hybrid forms of online organisation.

            Content

            Author and article information

            Journal
            Journal ID (doi): 10.13169
            Journal ID (publisher-id): workorgalaboglob
            Title: Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation
            Publisher: Pluto Journals
            ISSN (Print): 1745641X
            ISSN (Electronic): 17456428
            Publication date (Print): Autumn 2010
            Volume: 4
            Issue: 2
            Pages: 126-141
            Article
            Publisher ID: workorgalaboglob.4.2.0126
            DOI: 10.13169/workorgalaboglob.4.2.0126
            SO-VID: dbef7ad2-b0b8-46fe-91ee-965b4fd48c44
            Copyright © © Nina O'Brien, 2010
            License:

            All content is freely available without charge to users or their institutions. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission of the publisher or the author. Articles published in the journal are distributed under a http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

            History

            ScienceOpen disciplines: Sociology,Labor law,Political science,Labor & Demographic economics,Political economics

            References

            1. , , & (2004) ‘An organizing framework for collective identity: articulation and significance of multidimensionality,’ Psychological Bulletin , Vol 130 no 1:80–114

            2. (2008) ‘The WGA strike, the Internet and media decentralization,’ Flow , Vol 7 no 15, Accessed on November 4, 2009 from: http://flowtv.org/?p=1390

            3. (2010) ‘The picket line online: creative labor, digital activism and the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike,’ Popular Communication , 8:20–33

            4. & (2004) ‘The Internet and social life,’ Annual Review of Psychology , 55:573–590

            5. (2003) ‘New media power: the Internet and global activism,’ Accessed on November 4, 2009 from http://depts.washington.edu/gcp/pdf/bennettnmpower.pdf

            6. (2004) ‘Branded political communication: Lifestyle politics, logo campaigns, and the rise of global citizenship,’ Accessed on November 4, 2009 from http://ccce.com.washington.edu/projects/assets/working_papers/NewBrandedPoliticalCommunication(BennettChapterFinal)61002.pdf

            7. , & (2008) ‘Communication and political mobilization: digital media use and protest organisation among anti-Iraq War demonstrators in the US,’ Political Communication 25:269–289

            8. (2003) Information and American Democracy: technology in the evolution of political power , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

            9. (2005) ‘Presentation of self on the web: an ethnographic study of teenage girls' weblogs,’ Education, Communication and Information , Vol 5 no 1:25–39

            10. (1998) ‘Community without propinquity revisited: communications technology and the transformation of the urban public sphere,’ Sociological Inquiry , Vol 68 no3:373–397

            11. (2004) The Power of Identity , Oxford: Blackwell

            12. & (1998) ‘Coming Together: new taxonomies for the analysis of social relations,’ Sociological Inquiry , Vol 68 no 3:398–425

            13. (1996) ‘Social identification,’ & (eds) Social Psychology: Handbook of Basic Principles , New York: Guilford Press

            14. (2008) ‘Character Motivation,’ Accessed on November 4, 2009 from http://unitedhollywood.blogspot.com/2007/11/character-motivation.html

            15. (2005) ‘Multiple belongings, flexible identities and the construction of “Another Politics”: between the European Social Forum and the local social fora’, and (eds) Transnational Protest and Global Activism , Boulder, Colorado: Rowan & Littlefield:175–202

            16. , and (2006) ‘Modeling the structure of collective action,’ Communication Monographs , Vol 73 no 1:29–54

            17. (1992) Talking Politics , New York: Cambridge University Press

            18. , & (1986) ‘Properties of gender identity and their implications for gender consciousness’, British Journal of Social Psychology , 25:139–148

            19. (2007) ‘A strike captain's opinion: AMPTP strategy and the DGA,’ Accessed on November 4, 2009 from http://unitedhollywood.blogspot.com/2007/12/strike-captains-opinion-amptp-strategy.html

            20. (1991) ‘Constructing collective identity in a peace movement organisation,’ Doctoral Dissertation, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Dissertation Abstracts International , 52: 2723

            21. & (1994) ‘Identity talk in the peace and justice movement,’ Journal of Contemporary Ethnography , Vol 22 no 4:488–517

            22. (2007) ‘Solidarnosc,’ Accessed on November 4, 2009 from http://unitedhollywood.blogspot.com/2007/12/solidarnosc.html

            23. & (2004) ‘New media and Internet activism: From the “Battle of Seattle'to blogging’, New Media and Society ,6:87–95

            24. (2007) ‘Letter from WGA member and contract captain Laeta Kalgoridis,’ Accessed on November 4, 2009 from http://unitedhollywood.blogspot.com/2007/10/letter-from-wga-member-and-contract.html

            25. (2007) ‘AMPTP tactics don't fool anybody,’ Accessed on November 4, 2009 from http://unitedhollywood.blogspot.com/2007/12/amptp-tactics-dont-fool-anybody.html

            26. , , , , , & (1998) ‘Internet paradox: A social technology that reduces social involvement and psychological well-being?’ American Psychologist , Vol 53 no 9:1017–1031

            27. (2008) ‘Why I walk,’ Accessed on November 4, 2009 from http://unitedhollywood.blogspot.com/2008/02/why-i-walk.html

            28. (2009) ‘The radical act of ‘mommy blogging’: Redefining motherhood through the Blogosphere,’ New Media and Society , Vol 11 no 4:729–747

            29. , & (1997) ‘The weakness of strong ties II: collective action failure in a self-organizing social network,’ Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Toronto, Canada

            30. & (1993) The Critical Mass in Collective Action: a micro-social theory , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

            31. (2007) ‘A Brief history of strike gains,’ Accessed on November 4, 2009 from http://unitedhollywood.blogspot.com/2007/11/brief-history-of-strike-gains.html

            32. (1995) ‘The process of collective identity,’ & (eds) Social Movements and Culture , Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press:41–63

            33. (2001) ‘Sociability, interpersonal relations, and the Internet: reconciling conflicting findings,’ American Behavioral Scientist , Vol 45 no 3:420–435

            34. (1998) ‘Virtual democracy,’ Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics , 3:1–4

            35. (1971) The Logic of Collective Action: public goods and the theory of groups , Cambridge: Harvard University Press

            36. (1995) ‘Ethnic identity and self-esteem: A review and integration,’ (ed), Hispanic psychology: Critical issues in theory and research , Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage: 57–70

            37. (1997) ‘Towards a communication dialectic: embedded technology and the enhancement of place,’ Sociological Inquiry , Vol 67 no 1:101–112

            38. (2007) ‘Top 10 reasons the Worldwide Pants deal is a good idea’. Accessed on November 4, 2009 from http://unitedhollywood.blogspot.com/2007/12/top-10-reasons-why-worldwide-pants-deal.html

            39. (2005) ‘Myth and the Zapatista movement: exploring a network identity’, New Media and Society , 7:559–577

            40. , & (1996) ‘Identity work as group process’, Advances in Group Processes , 13:113–147

            41. (2008) ‘Questions and hope as negotiations resume’. Accessed on November 4, 2009 from http://unitedhollywood.blogspot.com/2008/01/mike-scully-questions-and-hope-as.html

            42. (2008) ‘What Fi-Core really means’. Accessed on November 4, 2009 from http://unitedhollywood.blogspot.com/2008/01/what-fi-core-really-means.html

            43. , , , & (2005) ‘Information and expression in a digital age: modeling Internet effects on civic participation’, Communication Research , 32:531–565

            44. & (2000) ‘Identity work processes in the contest of social movements: Clarifying the identity/movement nexus,’ , & (eds) Self, Identity and Social Movements , Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press:41–67

            45. (2008) ‘The DGA factor,’ Accessed on November 4, 2009 from http://unitedhollywood.blogspot.com/2008/01/dga-factor.html

            46. United Hollywood (2007) ‘Who are you people?’ Accessed on November 4, 2009, from http://www.unitedhollywood.blogspot.com/

            47. & (2002) ‘New media, new movements? the role of the Internet in shaping the “anti-globalization” movement,’ Information Communication and Society , Vol 5 no 4:465–493

            48. (2007) ‘Why the time is now,’ Accessed on November 4, 2009 from http://unitedhollywood.blogspot.com/2007/11/why-time-is-now.html

            49. Writers Guild of America (2007) ‘Introduction to the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike rules,’ Accessed on November 4, 2009 from http://www.wga.org/contract_07/StrikeRules.pdf

            50. Writers Guild of America (2009) ‘Calendar of events’. Accessed on November 4, 2009 from http://www.wga.org/content/default.aspx?id=902

            51. Writers Guild of America. (2009a) ‘Guide to the Guild’. Accessed on November 4, 2009, from http://www.wga.org/uploadedFiles/who_we_are/fyiwhat.pdf

            52. Writers Guild of America (2009b) ‘Guilds and organisations’. Accessed on November 4, 2009 from http://www.wga.org/content/default.aspx?id=83

            Comments

            Comment on this article