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Online Privacy as a News Factor in Journalism

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The meaning, value, and organization of privacy are associated with the cultural, normative, and social disposition of a society. Therefore, the distinction and relationship between private and public is in constant transformation (see e.g., Westin 2003, p. 434). It is these circumstances that make investigating privacy so complex. The Italian democracy theorist Noberto Bobbio (1989, p. 1) has stressed this, naming the public/private distinction the often cited “great dichotomy” (in political theory). In occidental thinking, it stands for the fundamental differentiation between a public realm (including everything that is significant for a society as a whole) and a private realm (including everything that is significant for individuals or groups, e.g., the family) (Seubert 2010, p. 9), as well as for the interfaces and ambivalences resulting from the oscillatory connections between both “poles.”

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Loosen, W. (2011). Online Privacy as a News Factor in Journalism. In: Trepte, S., Reinecke, L. (eds) Privacy Online. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21521-6_15

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