Media Role in the Civic Engagement Patterning of Indonesian Civil Society
- DOI
- 10.2991/iccsr-18.2018.45How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- new media; civic engagement; crowdfunding; Indonesia citizens
- Abstract
The phenomenon of crowdfunding now becomes an interesting experience because of its success in raising a huge amount of funds from civil society to overcome the social issues. In fact, the aid flows voluntarily even with no driven force. Some cases are free Umroh facility as well as grant money for a police officer named Bripka Ase Kusmana by Cipanas residents, fundraising for elderly couples with down syndrome children in Kulon Progo, and crowdfunding for the payment of diyat for Indonesian worker from Ungaran. These kinds of behaviors cannot be separated from the presence of the civic engagement which allegedly new media plays an important role in construct, develop, and reinforce on it. In this paper, the qualitative-explorative investigation was conducted not only focuses on the motive of the civic engagement but also how its patterns occur therewith the possible impacts it may cause. Meanwhile, two fundamental theories, i.e., civic engagement, and social action media theory, were used to analyze the collected data. The results show that the civic engagement in civil society builds up not only were catalyzed by the media, and emerging of past issues but also because of the use of marginalization issues in generating empathic feeling as civilians.
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- © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Dewi Kartika Sari AU - Nur Aji Wibowo PY - 2018/07 DA - 2018/07 TI - Media Role in the Civic Engagement Patterning of Indonesian Civil Society BT - Proceedings of the International Conference of Communication Science Research (ICCSR 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 207 EP - 210 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/iccsr-18.2018.45 DO - 10.2991/iccsr-18.2018.45 ID - Sari2018/07 ER -