Abstract
With news media ecologies and their material conditions changing before our eyes, we note in the concluding chapter some of the consequences for access to news for consumers and citizens. In addition to the first-order impacts of shaping news discovery, its interactive possibilities of sharing and liking, commendary cultures and business commodification strategies, news distribution over social media channels is capable of locking us into the terms of a creative contract; an evaluative quid pro quo and cultural politics of sharing news and information. This shaping has far-reaching and invariably asymmetrical impacts. With news publishers, platforms, network infrastructure providers, audiences, device manufacturers, advertising firms, governments, and other industry actors engaged in an evolving struggle for control, authority and citizen trust, models of revenue generation are a central, but not the only determining, factor. Modes of regulation are also dynamically re-aligning to the power of these stakeholders, as governments, their regulatory agencies and publics gain a better understanding of their operations and the journalistic and industrial meanings of sharing news online.
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Dwyer, T., Martin, F. (2019). The Future of Journalism in a Sharing Ecology. In: Sharing News Online. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17906-9_10
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