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Harvesting social media for journalistic purposes in the UK: The balance between privacy rights and freedom of expression (2017)
Book Chapter
Gross, B. (2017). Harvesting social media for journalistic purposes in the UK: The balance between privacy rights and freedom of expression. In W. J. Schünemann, & M. Baumann (Eds.), Privacy, Data Protection and Cybersecurity in Europe (31-42). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53634-7_3

Social media have been shown to have the potential to broaden the scope of public communication and public sphere processes. In repressive societies or contexts, they can function as an alternative public sphere challenging the mainstream; but it als... Read More about Harvesting social media for journalistic purposes in the UK: The balance between privacy rights and freedom of expression.

Looking to the audience to prepare for the future of news journalism (2015)
Book Chapter
Gross, B. (2015). Looking to the audience to prepare for the future of news journalism. In P. Van Gelder, & C. Whitehouse (Eds.), The Future of News: Partnerships, Engagement and Diversity (67-68). Bracknell: Westminster Media Forum

This short comment piece emphasises that a consideration of the reader allows for more nuance and specificity in understanding contemporary journalism in the context of digital changes– journalists need to follow and understand not just the but their... Read More about Looking to the audience to prepare for the future of news journalism.

Controlled conditions: An analysis of the positioning of migration during the prime ministerial debates for the 2010 UK general election (2012)
Book Chapter
Gross, B. (2012). Controlled conditions: An analysis of the positioning of migration during the prime ministerial debates for the 2010 UK general election. In K. Moore, B. Gross, & T. Threadgold (Eds.), Migrations and the Media (47-64). New York: Peter Lang

In 2010 for the first time in a UK general election, the candidates for Prime Minster of the three major parties, Gordon Brown for Labour, David Cameron for the Conservatives and Nick Clegg for the Liberal-Democrats, faced each other in a series of t... Read More about Controlled conditions: An analysis of the positioning of migration during the prime ministerial debates for the 2010 UK general election.

Migranten in wartestellung: Die EU-Erweiterung 2007 im bezug auf die berichterstattung in Britischen fernsehnachrichten (2010)
Book Chapter
Gross, B. (2010). Migranten in wartestellung: Die EU-Erweiterung 2007 im bezug auf die berichterstattung in Britischen fernsehnachrichten. In B. Wassenberg, F. Clavert, & P. Hamman (Eds.), Contre l’Europe? Anti-européisme, euroscepticisme et alter-européisme dans la construction européenne de 1945 à nos jours: Les concepts (379-398). Stuttgart, Germany: Steiner Verlag

On 1 January 2007 Bulgaria and Romania became members of the European Union. This paper focuses on an analysis of coverage of already existing EU migration and the two new member states over several months during 2006, the year before accession on th... Read More about Migranten in wartestellung: Die EU-Erweiterung 2007 im bezug auf die berichterstattung in Britischen fernsehnachrichten.

Conditional and constrained: Freedom of expression of migrant voices on TV news (2009)
Book Chapter
Gross, B. (2009). Conditional and constrained: Freedom of expression of migrant voices on TV news. In R. C. Clemens Nathan (Ed.), Media and Human Rights: Reparations for Victims of Human Rights Abuses and Prosthetic Services (127-138). London: Clemens Nathan Research Centre

This chapter looks at the way journalistic practice potentially constrains the voice of migrants on British television news.

Locating Britian: Migration and shifting boundaries on TV news (2009)
Book Chapter
Gross, B. (2009). Locating Britian: Migration and shifting boundaries on TV news. In E. Castello, A. Dhoest, & H. O'Donnell (Eds.), The Nation on Screen (139-156). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Collective identities projected in the content of national television news can be less stable and coherent than is often suggested. Working within a tension between an inclusive and an exclusive national identity discourse, television news programmes... Read More about Locating Britian: Migration and shifting boundaries on TV news.