About the Author ixPreface xi1 News 2.0 and New Technologies 1Part I Content 152 Social Networking Sites and News 173 Fake News Discourses on SNS vs. MSM 47Part II Audiences 754 Social Media News Audiences 775 Viral News on Social Media 107Part III Producers 1376 Celebrity Journalists 2.0 and Branding 1397 Who Is Breaking News on Social Media? 159Part IV Mobile News 1818 Mobile News Apps as Ethnic Mediascapes 183Index 203
AHMED AL-RAWI is an Assistant Professor of News, Social Media, and Public Communication at the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, Canada, and Director of the Disinformation Project, empirically examining fake news discourses in Canada on social media and mainstream media. He is the author of several books and over fifty peer reviewed book chapters and articles published in journals including Information, Communication & Society, Online Information Review, Social Science Computer Review, and International Journal of Communication.