When sharing isn’t caring

Gervase Markham  |  Features
Date posted:  1 Jan 2016
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When sharing isn’t caring

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Gervase Markham challenges our Internet behaviour

Sharing – who could be against that?

Or, in today’s online world, who could even avoid it? Anyone using the web will have noticed that every article sports multiple ways of letting your contacts know what a great read it was. Twitter uses ‘retweeting’; on Facebook it’s ‘liking’; on Pinterest it’s ‘pinning’. We wander through the virtual world, scattering reproductions of what we encounter to left and right. These sharing mechanisms are a big part of why they call it social media.

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