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spir-9005	Roginsky, Sandrine	WHY AND HOW POLITICIANS USE SOCIAL MEDIA? UNDERSTANDING SENSEMAKING AND REPRESENTATIONS OF DIGITAL PLATFORMS. THE CASE OF “FACEBOOK” AND “TWITTER” IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT	2015.0	5	.pdf	application/pdf	2143	138	48	THE CASE OF “FACEBOOK” AND “TWITTER” IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT Sandrine Roginsky Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium Introduction The mainstream perspective on politicians who use social media has been based on the premise that social media technology is, by nature, an innovative tool and that politicians are not using it to its full potential (Roginsky, 2014). I will challenge the mainstream normative approach and will rely on a socio-technical approach to demonstrate that social media technology is not innovative by nature and innovation is not necessarily where it is expected, nor it is necessarily easily visible: it is however part of a “technical imaginaire” (Flichy, 2004:10).	cache/spir-9005.pdf	txt/spir-9005.txt