Sharing News Online

Fiona Martin is Senior Lecturer in Online Media in the Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney, Australia. Tim Dwyer is Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Convergent Media and Privacy (2016).

• 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.