The rise of ‘sharing’ in communication and media studies

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Notes on contributors

Nicholas A. John is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of a forthcoming book on sharing in the digital age. His publications on sharing to date include: Sharing and Web 2.0: The emergence of a keyword. New Media & Society, 15(2), 167–182 (2013); The Social Logics of Sharing. The Communication Review, 16(3), 113–131 (2013); File sharing and the history of computing: Or, why file sharing is called file sharing. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 31(3),198–211 (2014). Find him at http://nicholasjohn.huji.ac.il. [email: [email protected]]

Wolfgang Sützl is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the School of Media Arts & Studies, Ohio University. Previous publications on sharing include the articles ‘Om dele/On sharing’ (2015), ‘Sharing: The rise of an anti-economy’ (2014), and the co-edited volume ‘Cultures and Ethics of Sharing’ (2012). Web: http://wolfgangsuetzl.net [email: [email protected]].