Abstract:

Under the new situation of changing network technology and media forms， it is of

great significance to explore the emotional experience and affective labor of editors in academic

journals to reshape their professional identity and subject value. 25 interviewees were interviewed

in depth and the interview materials were analyzed through the identity construction conducted by

editing affective labor， and the analysis framework was constructed by highlighting professional

value and giving play to subjectivity in the process of identity construction. The study found that，

editors of academic journals follow certain professional emotional rules in affective labor， use

emotional strategies such as “deep performance” to improve work experience， and gradually

establish their self-identity in the process. At the same time，affective labor helps to highlight

the professional value of academic journal editors and exert their subjectivity. The in-depth

examination of the affective labor of academic editors is helpful to break people's imagination that

editing emotion is “taken for granted”. Meanwhile， it also inspires us to think about how to further

promote the initiative of editing work and give more humanistic care to editors.

Key words:

Editor’s emotion Affective labor Emotional labor Academic journals

CLC Number: 

• G232