Jurnal Ranah Komunikasi
Vol 7 No 1 (2023): Jurnal Ranah Komunikasi (JRK)

COMMUNICATING DEMOCRATIC WILL ONLINE: THE CASE OF MASS REJECTION TO FUEL PRICE ADJUSTMENT POLICY IN INDONESIA

Wahyu Nova Riski (Institut Seni Indonesia Padang Panjang)



Article Info

Publish Date
28 Jun 2023

Abstract

The advance of communication technologies has evolved civic engagement in democratic countries. Social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram allow citizen to express their view freely and publicly. Citizens can easily communicate their views about the democratic process through social media. This study aims to assess online democratic engagement on Twitter in Indonesia regarding the policy to increase fuel prices in 2022. Computerized social network analysis is employed. NodeXL Pro is an open-source web scraping and visualization tool used to collect, process, and analyze Twitter data. The study finds that online civic engagement tends to be polarised in the network structure. Secondly, this study indicates that general public are important figure in the network. Meanwhile, the primary source of information discussed in the network is news media. Finally, this study demonstrates a link between online political discourse and traditional media coverage.

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Journal Info

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rk

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Subject

Arts Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Library & Information Science Social Sciences

Description

Jurnal Ranah Komunikasi is a periodical scientific journal that publishes the results of research or study of literature. This journal published by the Department of Communication Sciences FISIP Unand with E-ISSN 2656-4718 dan P-ISSN-2302-8106. Jurnal Ranah Komunikasi focuses on publishing and ...