The Political Aesthetics of Jokowi and Prabowo on Instagram

Lingga Agung, Novian Denny Nugraha, Paku Kusuma

2019

Abstract

Towards the Presidential Election of the Republic of Indonesia in April 2019, social media has becomes one of the most important campaign media. In addition to Facebook and Twitter, Instagram is one of social media that quite popular in Indonesia political practice—esspecialy for the millennial. Both candidate have an Instagram account. This occur because Instagram has a significant influence in contructing Jokowi and Prabowo images. Instagram which is popular among millennial is an interesting political discourse to be explored because both Jokowi and Prabowo tend to narrate their political image into kind of images that is more familiar with the ‘tastes’ of millennial. Through Pierre Bourdieu’s habitus and Jacques Rancière's the distribution of the sensible theories, this study examine how Jokowi's and Prabowo's Instagram uploads narrate their political image which constructs the ‘feelings’ of millennial in political practice in Indonesia.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Agung L., Nugraha N. and Kusuma P. (2019). The Political Aesthetics of Jokowi and Prabowo on Instagram.In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Interdisciplinary Arts and Humanities - Volume 1: ICONARTIES, ISBN 978-989-758-450-3, pages 44-50. DOI: 10.5220/0008544800440050

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iconarties19,
author={Lingga Agung and Novian Denny Nugraha and Paku Kusuma},
title={The Political Aesthetics of Jokowi and Prabowo on Instagram},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Interdisciplinary Arts and Humanities - Volume 1: ICONARTIES,},
year={2019},
pages={44-50},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008544800440050},
isbn={978-989-758-450-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Interdisciplinary Arts and Humanities - Volume 1: ICONARTIES,
TI - The Political Aesthetics of Jokowi and Prabowo on Instagram
SN - 978-989-758-450-3
AU - Agung L.
AU - Nugraha N.
AU - Kusuma P.
PY - 2019
SP - 44
EP - 50
DO - 10.5220/0008544800440050