Ricerc@Sapienza

In the fourth age of political communication, many scholars are discussing about the existence of a shared public media agenda. The plurality
of actors able to intervene in the public debate, the diversity of media
platforms, and personalization of media offer support the idea of divergence between public agendas. However, an electoral campaign is an
almost naturel occasion of convergence between media agendas. The
paper analyzes the relationship between traditional news media agendas, online news outlets, social media feeds on politics, during the 2018

Social media and European Union have gained tremendous power in the last two decades, and they
have undoubtedly brought major changes in societies, so that the individuals face significant new
aspects, especially in terms of identity negotiation. Given the political and the digital contexts, one of
the best cases for studying these changes is the case of Romania, where the process of European
integration and the huge spread of social media went side by side from the beginning (mid-2000s),