Public attention to Indonesian dynastic politics: an analysis of social media networks

ABSTRACT

This research aims to identify and map social networks on social media We took a dataset from as the unit of analysis. We did data mining from X to collect 19,231 Tweets, 20,023 re-tweets, and 11,890 nodes and 9466 edges. The research results concluded that the communication network map on social media X identified the Gibran node which has intermediary factors and relationships as well as the actor with the most centrality and is a link to other actors in the social media communication network X by becoming the trending topic ‘Gibran’. The communication network metrics graph also found the ‘Gibran’ account to be the actor with the most contacts on ‘X’. The ‘Jokowi’ account was the second most contacted. This research found a gap in the need to expand the analysis to different cultures or countries to understand differences and similarities in social interaction patterns. Another gap in this research exists in terms of expanding the analysis to different topics or communities to gain a broader understanding of social network dynamics.

KEYWORDS:

• Dynasty politics
• Gibran
• Jokowi
• social media
• X
• Indonesia

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank the Muhammadiyah University of North Sumatra (UMSU) for providing us with ample opportunities to facilitate this research by utilising the digital communication laboratory in the Communication Science Study Program, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).