Publications
Publication details [#51812]
Royal, James. 2009. Television in the Workplace: Ford and FCN TV. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 6 (4) : 346–365.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Annotation
Ford Motor Company of Europe's deployment of television in a pan-European setting, crafts a transnational corporate identity among its multi-national workforce. But whilst television can act as a unifying force, technology deployment also exacerbates tensions within the transnational entity as invoked by site-specific concerns, and the inherently propagandistic nature of the news may also invoke ironic reactions.