Twitter of Jokowi: Analyzing President's Social Network

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10.2991/uicosp-17.2017.30How to use a DOI?

Keywords

social network; twitter; president jokowi

Abstract

President Jokowi has highest number of followers on Twitter with 6.761.730 followers that implicates intensity of the interaction with his followers, as well as implicates number of social network that formed. This paper aims to determine the social network on President Jokowi's Twitter. Tweets of President Jokowi in 2016 gained from Twitonomy Database were analyzed using content analysis to determine the most tweeted figures/individuals, institutions, and specific communities on President Jokowi's Twitter in 2016. Two findings emerged. Firstly, 117 networks were found. Secondly, 5 networks were found tweeted more than three times namely Indonesian National Armed Forces (TNI), Islam/Moslem, Indonesian National Police (POLRI), Indonesia national football team (Timnas Indonesia), and Praveen/Debby. The results are salient for political communication researchers and political researchers wishing to investigate the relationship of President Jokowi and those networks.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Nurul Ichsani
AU  - Andi Subhan Amir
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TI  - Twitter of Jokowi: Analyzing President's Social Network
BT  - Proceedings of the Unhas International Conference on Social and Political Science (UICoSP 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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