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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.