WHY DO WE SHARE. AN INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE

Decebal-Remus FLORESCU

doi:10.24193/subbeph.2018.1.02

Authors

Decebal-Remus FLORESCU PhD candidate, College of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Email: remus_florescu@yahoo.com. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3493-1973

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24193/subbeph.2018.1.02

Keywords:

share, communication, content, social capital, dopamine, activation, novelty, behaviour

Abstract

This study focuses on explaining why people decide to share information online and what are the factors that influence what content we distribute using the latest scientific papers in Psychology, Sociology, Neurosciences and Communication.

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