Sharing News Online Commendary Cultures and Social Media News Ecolog

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

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Commendary Cultures and Social Media News Ecologies Fiona Martin and Tim Dwyer

Sharing News Online

Fiona Martin • Tim Dwyer

Sharing News Online Commendary Cultures and Social Media News Ecologies

Fiona Martin Department of Media and Communications University of Sydney Sydney, NSW, Australia

Tim Dwyer Department of Media and Communications University of Sydney Sydney, NSW, Australia

ISBN 978-3-030-17905-2    ISBN 978-3-030-17906-9 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17906-9 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover image: Bloomberg Creative Photos / Getty images Cover design: Tjasa Krivec and eStudioCalamar This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland

For Ruth, Jim, Jamilla and Rosie who all know the power and delight of social news sharing. For Susan

Acknowledgements

This book has had a long gestation through several news analytics projects, but is primarily the outcome of an Australian Research Council Linkage grant, Sharing News Online: Analysing the Significance of a Social Media Phenomenon (LP140100148). We are indebted to our industry partners, the Share Wars team of Hal Crawford, Andrew Hunter and Dominic Filipovic for introducing us to the Likeable Engine and to Nine News Australia for supporting this research. The detailed social media analytics was made possible by our colleagues Professor James Curran and Dr Joel Nothman, of the University of Sydney’s School of Information Technology, who were thoughtful, challenging collaborators. We are also grateful for the chapter contributions from linguist Associate Professor Monika Bednarek and audience researcher Associate Professor Virginia Nightingale, who expanded ou