A labour market without boundaries? Integration paths for young journalists in French-speaking Belgium

Abstract: This study aims to describe the growing influence of flexibility rationales on the early careers of young, francophone Belgian journalists. The study on the integration of new journalists enables us to grasp how the destandardisation of the beginnings of a career creates new identity forms in part distanced from the traditional values that had managed to make journalism a job that was distinct, recognised and more or less solidly positioned in the social sphere. At its most extreme, flexible rationale acts as a key factor in the increasingly frequent divide between a job and work. Af... Mehr ...

Verfasser: STANDAERT, Olivier
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
Verlag/Hrsg.: ESSACHESS – Journal for Communication Studies
Schlagwörter: Communication sciences / Media Studies / Digital Humanities / Sociology / Cultural Studies;Media Anthropology / Information and Communication Sciences;Psychology / Economy;Religious Studies / Language Sciences
Sprache: Englisch
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Abstract: This study aims to describe the growing influence of flexibility rationales on the early careers of young, francophone Belgian journalists. The study on the integration of new journalists enables us to grasp how the destandardisation of the beginnings of a career creates new identity forms in part distanced from the traditional values that had managed to make journalism a job that was distinct, recognised and more or less solidly positioned in the social sphere. At its most extreme, flexible rationale acts as a key factor in the increasingly frequent divide between a job and work. After having established these observations through a longitudinal study of a body of young journalists, the study analyses the impact of flexible rationales in the identity forms and the theoretical issue of boundaries between journalism and others business sectors. Keywords: career paths, young journalists, labour market, flexibility, boundaries of journalism *** Un marché du travail sans frontières? L’insertion professionnelle des jeunes journalistes de Belgique francophone Résumé : Cette étude analyse l’influence croissante de la gestion flexible des carrières sur les nouveaux journalistes de Belgique francophone. L’étude diachronique de leurs trajectoires d’insertion montre comment la déstandardisation des schémas de carrière reconfigure la mobilité entre secteurs d’activité ainsi que les identités professionnelles, qui tendent à s’éloigner des schémas identitaires collectifs du groupe professionnel. A son point le plus extrême, la logique flexible est un facteur clé de la séparation de plus en plus fréquente entre le journalisme comme emploi et le journalisme comme travail. Après avoir étudié les impacts de ce phénomène dans les discours recueillis lors d’entretiens, cette étude interroge la question théorique des frontières d’un marché du travail aussi flexible et ouvert à d’autres activités que le journalisme. Mots-clés : trajectoires d’insertion, jeunes journalistes, marché du travail, flexibilité, frontières