Sharing News Online Commendary Cultures and Social Media News Ecologies /

• Main Authors: Martin, Fiona (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Dwyer, Tim (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Journalism.; Digital media.; Social media.; Digital/New Media.; Social Media.

This book explores the political economics and cultural politics of social media news sharing, investigating how it is changing journalism and the news media internationally. News sharing plays important economic and cultural roles in an attention economy, recommending the stories audiences find val...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1
• In the Suicide Forest
• Chapter 2- Commendary Culture.-Chapter 3
• The Numbers Game
• Chapter 4
• The Business of News Sharing.-Chapter 5
• What we share: genre and topicality on Facebook and Twitter.-Chapter 6
• The Language and news values of 'most shared' news
• Chapter 7
• Affect and the motivation to share
• Chapter 8
• Media Pluralism Policies and the Implications of Social News Sharing
• Chapter 9
• Understanding Viral News Sharing
• Chapter 10
• Governing the Sharing Ecology.