“Privacy by Disaster?“ published in the Journal of European Communication [20.02.17]
Thilo von Pape, Sabine Trepte, and Conelia Mothes published their article “Privacy by disaster? Press coverage of privacy and digital technology” in the Journal of European Communication. The results of their content analysis show that it is not necessarily disasters that give coverage a new orientation.
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Although numerous surveys and experiments have studied how individual users respond to these challenges, we know little about such perceptions and debates in the larger public. Thus, Dr. Thilo von Pape, Prof. Dr. Sabine Trepte, and Dr. Cornelia Mothes investigated which events journalists report when they broach the issue, what aspects of privacy they cover, and whether the coverage refers to different kinds of privacy-related events and to different publication contexts. The results show that there is a continuous amount of critical coverage on privacy-related issues, but also that positive events are important driving forces of press coverage.
Further reading on the website of the Journal of European Communication.
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