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Researching Candidates' Use of Twitter During the European Parliamentary Elections 11 Hailed by many as a game-changer in political communication, Twitter has made its way into election campaigns all around the world. The European Parliamentary elections, tak- ing place simultaneously in 28 countries, give us a unique comparative vision of the way the tool is used by candidates in different national contexts. This volume is the fruit of a research project bringing together scholars from 6 countries, specialised in communication science, media studies, linguistics and computer science. It seeks to characterise the way Twitter was used during the 2014 European election campaign, providing insights into communication styles and strategies observed in different languages and outlining meth- odological solutions for collecting and analysing political tweets in an electoral context. Tweets from the Campaign Trail the Campaign from Tweets Alex Frame / Arnaud Mercier / Gilles Brachotte / Caja Thimm (eds.) Tweets from the Campaign Trail Caja Thimm (eds.) · (eds.) Thimm Caja / Researching Candidates’ Use of Twitter During the European Parliamentary Elections Gilles Brachotte / Alex Frame is Associate Professor in Communication Science at the University of Burgundy (Dijon) where he works within the TIL research group (EA4182). Arnaud Mercier is Professor in Communication Science and member of the French Press Arnaud Mercier Institute (IFP, Paris). / Gilles Brachotte is Associate Professor in Communication Science at the University of Bur- gundy (Dijon) and member of the CIMEOS-3S research group (EA4177). Bonner Beiträge zur Medienwissenschaft Caja Thimm is Professor in Media Studies and Intermediality at the University of Bonn. 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Tweets from the Campaign Trail the Campaign from Tweets Alex Frame / Arnaud Mercier / Gilles Brachotte / Caja Thimm (eds.) Tweets from the Campaign Trail Caja Thimm (eds.) · (eds.) Thimm Caja / Researching Candidates’ Use of Twitter During the European Parliamentary Elections Gilles Brachotte / Alex Frame is Associate Professor in Communication Science at the University of Burgundy (Dijon) where he works within the TIL research group (EA4182). Arnaud Mercier is Professor in Communication Science and member of the French Press Arnaud Mercier Institute (IFP, Paris). / Gilles Brachotte is Associate Professor in Communication Science at the University of Bur- gundy (Dijon) and member of the CIMEOS-3S research group (EA4177). Bonner Beiträge zur Medienwissenschaft Caja Thimm is Professor in Media Studies and Intermediality at the University of Bonn. 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