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Searching for Digital Citizenship: Fighting Corruption in Banten, Indonesia
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Abstract The expansion of digital technologies and social media in Indonesia shifts practices of citizenship from a formal institutional level toward a more informal digital space. This paper presents the emerging results of research on digital citizenship in Banten, Indonesia, focusing on how new forms of c... view more
The expansion of digital technologies and social media in Indonesia shifts practices of citizenship from a formal institutional level toward a more informal digital space. This paper presents the emerging results of research on digital citizenship in Banten, Indonesia, focusing on how new forms of citizenship are brought into being through digital acts that are defined as speech acts uttered through the use of social media. The paper follows digital acts of citizens in anti-corruption campaigns against the patrimonial and clientelistic regime of Banten’s political dynasty that are predominantly staged on Facebook and other online platforms. These digital acts produce and intensify affective publics through which forms of digital citizenship are enacted in opposition to the corrupt dynasty. ... view less
Keywords
anthropology; corruption; facebook; Indonesia; Southeast Asia; digital media; citizen; political activity
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Interactive, electronic Media
Free Keywords
Banten's Political Dynasty; Digital Acts of Citizenship
Document language
English
Publication Year
2016
Page/Pages
p. 289-294
Journal
ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 9 (2016) 2
Issue topic
New Media
ISSN
1999-253X
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0