From Newsworthiness to Shareworthiness: How to Predict News Sharing Based on Article Characteristics

Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 38-60

  Trilling, Damian ^a   Tolochko, Petro ^b   Burscher, Björn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

news dissemination; news sharing; news values; online news; social network sites

Indexed keywords

INTERNET; MASS MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORK; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 85014527124     PISSN: 10776990     EISSN: 2161430X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077699016654682     Document Type: Article

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