Virtual Social Movement in a Wadas Citizens Support Network on Twitter

Abstract

Wadas residents' rejection of the government's work program in mining Andesite in Wadas, Central Java gave rise to a social movement ranging from a physically organized resistance act by the Wada residents themselves as well as voice aspirations and support from the community through social media which also echoed the voice of their participation and criticism of the government. This has prompted the formation of an active network and a large number of network exchanges in accounts linked through hashtags and mentions on Twitter. So, from the results of the analysis of this study, it shows that Twitter is a virtual social movement that is so strong and carried out spontaneously without any command process or broad organizational form. It is found that the accounts do not know each other and create a lot of one-way communication in the network so the network spreads very widely.