<![CDATA[Background: Indonesia’s 2024 presidential election reinforced X as a digital arena where political visibility, identity, and legitimacy were contested through hashtags. However, limited research combines computational network analysis with a Bourdieusian perspective to examine the distribution of symbolic power among accounts and hashtags. Objective: This study examines hashtag contestation on X as a mechanism of political mobilization, visibility, and symbolic power during Indonesia’s 2024 presidential election using Social Network Analysis (SNA) and Bourdieu’s theoretical framework. Methods: A digital research design was applied to public trace data from X covering 25 political hashtags between February 2023 and March 2024. After verification and removal of non-political entries, the final dataset consisted of 3,664 politically relevant tweets. SNA was used to map network structures and actor positions, interpreted through Bourdieu’s concepts of field, capital, habitus, and symbolic power. Results: The network demonstrated high modularity (Q = 0.815), forming five major communities associated with the AMIN, Prabowo-Gibran, and Ganjar-Mahfud camps, as well as anti-Prabowo and election-monitoring clusters. Hashtags such as #AMINAjaDulu occupied highly central positions alongside active supporter accounts, indicating that digital symbolic capital was jointly constructed through discursive labels and relational actors. Conclusion: X functions as a symbolic political arena in which accounts, hashtags, and network positions shape visibility and legitimacy, extending Bourdieusian field theory to platform-based electoral politics.]]>
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