News Sharing in Social Media: A Review of Current Research on News Sharing Users, Content, and Networks

Social Media and Society

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Kümpel, Anna Sophie ^a   Karnowski, Veronika ^a   Keyling, Till ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

diffusion of information; literature review; news sharing; social media; social networking services

Indexed keywords

EID: 84982973560     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20563051     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2056305115610141     Document Type: Article

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