This weekly reading is talking about people who work in media industry, the situation of those labour, and also pay attention to those who are informal media work has a real downside which is repetitive and lowly paid, especially for freelancers and other workers at the bottom of the food chain.Ken Muise as a freelance creator gives some advices. Indeed, in that chapter, we also address that informal modes of media work. As authors noted: “There would be no culture, no media, without labor. Labor is central to humanity, but largely absent from our field.” To conclude, we need formalization, the understanding of that need across time and space.

I am used work as a editor for internship which in another word could be freelancers, so i know the feeling of it,especially in this circumstances,different background, international student, work for Chinese enterprise. Actually, Chinese enterprise means non-standard. However, the author also explains: “Informality is the structuring principle in which many small and medium-sized new media companies seem to operate:finding work,recruiting staff,getting clients are all seemingly removed from the formal sphere governed by established procedures,equal opportunities legislation, or union agreements, and located in an arena based on informality, sociality, and ‘who you know’ ”. So first step, instead of repressed, we should pay more attention to apparent conundrum debate the utopian claims for coexisting formality and informality- brought into the open and discussed.