The ‘super election year 2017’ with national elections in several European countries and a series of state elections in Germany is a special year. Especially for political science internet research. Firstly, it is to be expected that internet development and digitalisation will shape election campaigns even more than in the past. Secondly, researchers in political science and/or communication studies will draw as never before on large, automatically collected stocks of online communication data, mostly from social media (Twitter, Facebook, etc.), and analyse them in innovative ways. Lastly, there is increasing criticism of the quality of online political communication and the political campaign debate.
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