All Your Friends Like This: How Social Networks Took Over News - Softcover

Crawford, H., Hunter, A., & Filipovic, D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1460750683 ISBN 13: 9781460750681

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2016

Synopsis

ALL YOUR FRIENDS LIKE THIS is a topical, punchy and provocative look at how social networks are taking over the news. How do you get your news? Chances are not from a newspaper or the TV - that's so old-school. If you're anything like the rest of us, you get it from Facebook or Twitter. The great power shift from traditional media to social networks is happening right now. This boom means that, for millions of us, our first exposure to information about the world comes from our friends, not news media. But social networks don't do news the old-fashioned way. Because we share stories that make us look good, inspire us and fire us up, the tone and flavour of the news-making process is irrevocably altered. What does this mean for media? For journalists? The audience? Are we better off or worse off because of it? Highly topical, provocative and totally absorbing, ALL YOUR FRIENDS LIKE THIS does for the media what Freakonomics did for economics. If you're interested in the news, in what we read and why we read it then this game-changing book is essential.

About this title

About the Author:

Hal Crawford is ninemsn's Editor-in-Chief. He began his career at the West Australian newspaper and has taught journalism at La Trobe University in Melbourne. Andrew Hunter is Managing Editor of Microsoft's MSN, and Domagoj Filipovic is Chief Technology Officer at cloud-based video platform provider Viocorp. He also developed The Likeable Engine, which tracks sharing of news stories in real time.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1460750683
• ISBN 13: 9781460750681
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304