Proceedings of the First Brawijaya International Conference on Social and Political Sciences, BSPACE, 26-28 November, 2019, Malang, East Java, Indonesia

Research Article

The Role of Social Media In Forming Political Polarization In Public (A Case Study on Universitas Negeri Jakarta Student on the Hashtag War Between #jokowi2periode and #2019gantipresiden on Twitter)

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.26-11-2019.2295163,
        author={R H Dwiwina and S  Rachma and M R Abid},
        title={The Role of Social Media In Forming Political Polarization In Public (A Case Study on Universitas Negeri Jakarta Student on the Hashtag War Between \#jokowi2periode and \#2019gantipresiden on Twitter)},
        proceedings={Proceedings of the First Brawijaya International Conference on Social and Political Sciences, BSPACE, 26-28 November, 2019, Malang, East Java, Indonesia},
        publisher={EAI},
        proceedings_a={B-SPACE},
        year={2020},
        month={5},
        keywords={social media political polarization presidensial election},
        doi={10.4108/eai.26-11-2019.2295163}
    }
    
  • R H Dwiwina
    S Rachma
    M R Abid
    Year: 2020
    The Role of Social Media In Forming Political Polarization In Public (A Case Study on Universitas Negeri Jakarta Student on the Hashtag War Between #jokowi2periode and #2019gantipresiden on Twitter)
    B-SPACE
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.26-11-2019.2295163
R H Dwiwina1,*, S Rachma1, M R Abid1
  • 1: Universitas Negeri Jakarta, Jakarta
*Contact email: ikomunj2019@gmail.com

Abstract

Nowadays, the increase of social media users in Indonesia has emerged a new trend of a communication model that more efficient and effective than the conventional communication model. But along with the increasing of social media user also surely cause new problems. One of the problems is a new platform to do some criminal thing and political polarization that we can see obviously when the presidential election in April 2019. The purpose of this study to understand and observe the impact of social media especially Twitter on the political polarization phenomenon in the presidential election’s era. the research’s method is using the post-positivist paradigm with a qualitative and descriptive approach. From the result of the research, we know that twitter plays an important role in spreads political polarization all over the country.