Communication Pattern of Participation of women through Facebook Walls in the Presidential Election of the Republic of Indonesia in 2019

Abstract

Presidential Election in Indonesia is the practice of Indonesian democracy that become interesting to be discussed among the public, especially for women. The subjects in this study are academic women, women of legislative candidates, and non-academics women who were not legislative candidates from September 2018 to January 2019. The research objective is to obtain a pattern of women in participatory communication through the use of Facebook in the Presidential Election of the Republic of Indonesia in 2019. This research used Participatory Communication theory in the concept of Democracy. This is a descriptive qualitative research with constructivism paradigm and the method of Netnography. In this study the data were collected through interviews and observing message contents of women on Facebook walls; women who were uploading their messages on Facebook in the forms of direct upload, re-uploading of some posts belong to other people (re-post), or comments in both verbal and nonverbal forms. The findings of the research are; first, volunteer women from both academics and nonacademics (housewives) who become practical political actors with marketer patterns; and second, for candidates in the legislature who are women, they are political actors who make Facebook as a channel for them with the aim of increasing choices from people for them. 496According to Purwanto, "In general, patterns of communications can be distinguished in formal communication channels and non-formal communication channels [11]. This formal communication channel can take the form of communication from top to bottom, communication from the bottom up, horizontal communication, and diagonal communication. Based on the communication process that has been included in the category of communication patterns, namely; primary communication patterns, secondary communication patterns, linear communication patterns, and circular communication patterns. In this study, communication patterns are based on processes that use social media, so the communication patterns of content or content will be related to asymmetry or complementary, but communication patterns can also be explained from relationships that occur in formal or informal social structures and creativity in relation to the virtual world.2) Social media and creativity in the digital age: According to Astuti, Review of Virtual Communication Through Social Media in Cyberspace concluded that digitalization in all fields, such as viruses that slowly destroy humans, offer freedom, and virtual (pseudo) comfort is a hegemony conditioned and included in a structured system [12]. Therefore, to minimize misperception, prejudice and misunderstanding, humans must establish a balanced communication relationship between the real world and the virtual world.3) Theory of digital literacy and creative ability to message women on social media: Women in the cultural approach are gentle humans, carers, merciful who educate in the role of managing the family. However, in the digital era womens messages have eroded the...

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