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Living the liquid life: Gender, precarity, and journalism in the post-#metoo era Cover

Living the liquid life: Gender, precarity, and journalism in the post-#metoo era

By: Margareta Melin and  Jenny Wiik  
Open Access
|Sep 2024

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Language: English
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Published on: Sep 2, 2024
Published by: University of Gothenburg Nordicom
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