SOCIAL MEDIA USE: RETHINKING CIVIC ENGAGEMENT IN GOVERNMENT
Abstract
Information communication technology use has tremendeously changed the relationship between
citizen and government in term of method and intensity. Social media, a product of information
technology revolution, has unique and socially interactive and intense between those. This paper
tries to explore social media use and how civic engagement is changing over time. Citizenship
in social media as free deliberation over public decisions in a community may endorse the new
form organizational, community and relationship change of organization and community.