TY - Report AU - Theresa Sauter AU - Axel Bruns PY - 2013 T1 - Social media in the media: Australian media perceive social media as political tools PB - ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation DO - https://doi.org/APO-34764 UR - https://apo.org.au/node/34764 AB - This report, produced by CCI in collaboration with the University of Oslo, investigates how the political uses of social media are portrayed in the Australian mainstream media, in order to understand the perceptions that help shape how politicians, citizens and journalists employ new media tools to support their political objectives. Through a longitudinal comparative analysis we identify significant changes in how social media have been reported on since 2008. ER -