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spir-10976	Jensen, Jakob Linaa; Bruns, Axel; Graham, Tim; Angus, Daniel ; Larsson, Anders Olof; Stromer-Galley, Jennifer; Zhang, Feifei; Rossini, Patricia; Hemsley, Jeffrey	A DECADE OF SOCIAL MEDIA ELECTIONS – A CROSS-NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE	2019.0	16	.pdf	application/pdf	6385	345	50	Social media will play a critical role in their campaigning: overall, Australians are comparatively early and enthusiastic adopters of social media (Sensis 2017), and more than half use social media as a key source of news (Newman et al. 2018: 127); more specifically, social media have played an important role already during previous federal election campaigns in 2013 and 2016 (Bruns 2016; Bruns & Moon 2017), and politics is a persistently prominent topic on platforms such as Twitter in Australia (Sauter & Bruns 2015). In sum, the paper provides a longitudinal study of social media use, agenda-setting effects and experienced efficacy across four elections, contributing to the literature and to the debate on the role of social media in the future of democracy.	cache/spir-10976.pdf	txt/spir-10976.txt