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In about three weeks time I'll be going to the annual ICA conference, held this year in scenic Montreal, Canada. For those of you not in the know, ICA stands for the International Communication Association and their annual conference is the biggest, baddest, rootin'-est, tootin'-est academic event of the year for us media/journalism scholar types. The ICA is widely considered to be a very "American" organization, "American" being media researcher-speak for very competitive, favouring quantitative methodologies over qualitative, and generally being very influential and important even though we (Europeans) vaguely would prefer it not to be. Big poster sessions, prizes awarded for best paper and other things we more sedate European academics are weirded out/scared by. Still, it's the place to see and be seen, so I'm going. I make it sound like I'm making a sacrifice but I am not, really - I got a paper accepted, I have a travel grant the size of an elephant so it's not like I'm paying, and I'm going to see some friends I haven't seen in a long time. So I'm not complaining, good fun will be had by all. Now, on to the important stuff: the paper I'm presenting. As I said, I got it accepted, but only barely. The anonymous reviewers thought the paper basically sucked but they were going to accept it anyway (it must have been the cute font I used). Since I don't like presenting stuff that sucks, I took the opportunity to rewrite and resubmit - yes, you are allowed to do that for some conferences, and the ICA is one of them. Anyway, the deadline for submitting a revised paper was April 30th and on April 29th (Damn, I'm good) I was done and sent it in. If I have got wordpress figured out, you should be able to download a version of the paper below. Basically, the paper presents a framework for analysing the changes that are taking place within journalism, based on some recent sociology of work and occupations. Download it, print it, read it, send it to your friends, give it to your students - and let me know if it makes sense, if you have a moment. Because as it happens, this will also form an important part of the theoretical framework for my research project - you know, the one I never talk about nor give you an opportunity to comment on. So, since you asked for it (well, you didn't), here it is! Read 'em and weep! EDIT: If you want to try before you buy, here's the abstract: Abstract (220 words)

The notion of professionalism figures prominently in journalists’ own discourses about their occupation, as well as in scholarly accounts of the practice(s) of journalism. However, when accounting for changes in the profession and changes in professionalism, journalism scholarship has not been very good at taking the wider context of changes in work/labour/occupational structures into account, and nor has journalism scholarship been very good at incorporating up-to-date scholarship from the sociology of work and occupation. This paper seeks to remedy this by introducing Evetts' model of two competing discourses of professionalism, organizational and occupational professionalism, and using this and other recent sociology of work/occupations to put changes in journalistic labour into a wider context of structural work and workplace change. The paper applies the 'two professionalisms' model to journalism through examining how four key contemporary trends in work organization impact on journalistic labour and the shaping of journalistic professionalism: (1) the general deregulation of labour markets, (2) proliferation of short-term contracts and other forms of flexible employment, (3) technologisation of the workplace, and (4) concerns over de-skilling of parts of the workforce. This examination is used to generate a set of research questions highlighting previously under-studied areas in journalism scholarship, areas that the paper argues are important to understanding journalism as a professional practice at the beginning of the 21st century.

EDIT: Fixed the link to the paper, or rather: my wife, who knows way more about this Inter-Web stuff than I do, fixed the link to my paper. It should be downloadable now. The Two Professionalisms of Journalism