Jurnal Civics: Media Kajian Kewarganegaraan
Vol 19, No 1 (2022): April

Online civic engagement: Fostering citizen engagement through social media

Budi Mulyono (Civic Education Department, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta)
Idrus Affandi (Civic Education Department, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia)
Karim Suryadi (Civic Education Department, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia)
Cecep Darmawan (Civic Education Department, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 May 2022

Abstract

The Industrial Revolution 4.0, which makes the internet its backbone, has accelerated the process due to the Covid-19 pandemic which forced citizens to shift all their activities to the digital world, including the involvement of citizens in responding to public discourse. Citizens' public discourses that previously took place in real public spaces have now shifted to digital spaces, one of which is social media. To bridge these changes, a conceptualization of civic engagement is needed through a digital platform. The online citizen involvement was later referred to as online civic engagement, namely civic engagement activities specifically carried out by digital citizens involving several types of digital media, one of which is social media. This literature study provides a clearer picture of the forms of community interaction through social media that go beyond what is known as “slacktivism”. When many democracies are faced with the problem of decreasing citizen participation in politics, social media comes with a new form of civic interaction with what is meant by online civic engagement.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

civics

Publisher

Subject

Education Social Sciences

Description

Jurnal Civics: Media Kajian Kewarganegaraan is a scientific journal which managed by Civic Education and Law Department, Yogyakarta State University. This journal focuses on the publication of the results of scientific research related to the field of citizenship studies. The published article ...