Nicole Cohen (On Leave)
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Dr. Nicole S. Cohen is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology at the University of Toronto Mississauga and holds a graduate appointment in the Faculty of Information. She is the author of Writers’ Rights: Freelance Journalism in a Digital Age (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016), which won the Gertrude J. Robinson Book Prize from the Canadian Communication Association in 2017. She is the co-author, with Greig de Peuter, of New Media Unions: Organizing Digital Journalists (Routledge 2020). Nicole researches in the area of political economy of communication, particularly labour and organizing in the media and cultural industries, media work and journalism. Her research has been published in South Atlantic Quarterly, The Communication Review, Canadian Journal of Communication Studies, Democratic Communique, and several edited books in communication studies. Nicole collaborates on the international SSHRC-funded project, Cultural Workers Organize.
Programs
CCIT and PWC; Graduate Appointment at Faculty of Information
Publications
- Nicole Cohen and Greig de Peuter. 2020. New Media Unions: Organizing Digital Journalists. Routledge.
- Nicole Cohen. 2022. “Work.” A playlist for the Canadian Journal of Communication 47(2): 399-405.
- Nicole S. Cohen and Greig de Peuter. 2022. “Collectively Confronting Journalists’ Precarity Through Unionization.” In Newswork and Precarity, edited by Kalyani Chadha and Linda Steiner. London: Routledge. 203-216.
- Nicole S. Cohen and Greig de Peuter. 2019. “Interns Talk Back: Disrupting Media Narratives About Unpaid Work.” Political Economy of Communication 6(2): 3–24.
- Nicole S. Cohen and Greig de Peuter. 2018. “’I Work at Vice Canada and I Need a Union’: Organizing Digital Media.” In Labour Under Attack: Anti-Unionism in Canada, edited by Stephanie Ross and Larry Savage. Halifax and Winnipeg: Fernwood, 114-128.
Research
Nicole researches in the area of political economy of communication, specifically work and labour in the media and cultural industries, media and cultural worker organizing, and journalism. She recently co-authored New Media Unions: Organizing Digital Journalists (Routledge, 2020) with Greig de Peuter. Her first book, Writers' Rights: Freelance Journalism in a Digital Age (McGill-Queen's University Press) won the 2017 Gertrude J. Robinson Book Prize from the Canadian Communication Association. Nicole's recent research also examines gender, race, and work in digital journalism, and media unions' collective bargaining for racial and gender equity. She collaborates on the SSHRC-funded project Cultural Workers Organize and, with de Peuter and Enda Brophy, is writing a book on cultural workers’ collective responses to precarity for Pluto Press.