Abstract
The expansion of online media as a public sphere for youth political participation created an ephemeral scholarly conversation. Online media offers the opportunity for the youth to involve in politics as good citizens by following the novel civic style in the web sphere, developing new platform in communication style, and engaging in online community. Indonesian and Japanese models on civic engagement in the web sphere will enrich the Asian perspectives from the established theoretical framework in the western standpoint. Japan and Indonesia are two compatible counterparts to contrast the Asian case study. Both countries are relatively new in democracy, experiencing massive changes in the governments, political parties, penetration of technologies, and youth lifestyle. Both countries experience the similar struggles to understand the digital citizenship among young people. This research will answer the big question on how and to what extend the young citizens actively involved in political participation via media online. There are two prominent theories as the platform to configure the comparison of young citizenship model in Japan and Indonesia. First, the researcher will use the framework of Dutiful and Self Actualized Citizenship (AC-DC). Each type of citizenship develop distinguish characteristics in terms of civic style and communication logics. There are four competences in each model, such as knowledge, expression, public skills, and action skills. Secondly, this study will find the pattern of online media usage for the youth political and civic participation and to archive the youth civic engagements as an appreciation towards democratic growth in the relatively progressive Asian country.
Highlights
Japan and Indonesia are two compatible counterparts to contrast the Asian case study
The study will open an understanding on the big question of how and to what extend the young citizens actively involved in civic engagement and political participation via online media
Social capital starts with connectivity and interpersonal communication about issues or information related to government and politics
Summary
Japan and Indonesia are two compatible counterparts to contrast the Asian case study Both countries are relatively new in democracy, experiencing massive changes in the governments, political parties, penetration of technologies, and youth lifestyle. This massive growth and changes, according to Schellong (2008), push the government to go online through various tools in Japan such as Juki Net as the Basic Resident Registers Network System, SNS, and other Government 2.0 platforms Even political parties such as Liberal Democratic Party, New Party Nippon, and Social Democratic Party went online by uploading their own Youtube Channel (Kazuaki, 2008), websites, and interacted with citizens through discussion forum in Mixi (Alabaster, 2008), 2Chan (Matsumura, 2008), and Alexa (Farral, 2012). Japan and Indonesia are two compatible counterparts to contrast the Asian case study and to develop the theory driven framework based on Western democratization The study is aimed to find the pattern of online media usage for the youth political and civic participation and to archive the youth civic engagements as an appreciation towards the democratic growth in the relatively progressive Asian countries
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