An Analysis of University Students’ Perspectives on Collective Action through Social Media on Campus Democracy

Abstract

Campus democracy is useful for creating a condition that allows all elements within the university (students, rectors, teaching staff, employees, and workers) to have equal rights in formulating policies and the orientation of the implementation of education in tertiary institutions. But implementing democracy in educational contexts, particularly in Indonesia, is still got obstacled by the presence of some issues with democratic principles being violated. The purpose of this study was to examine and provide an overview of University Students’ Perspectives on Collective Action through Social Media on Campus’ Democracy. This study utilizes qualitative research methods by deploying questionnaires and documentation as data collection techniques. This study involves the students of one university in Lampung as the subject of the research. The data collection was performed on each different set of times since the depth comprehension through questionnaires is required in this study. The results indicated that the importance of social media for students in campus democracy, one of which is to cultivate the students’ critical awareness of events that occur on campus. Not only political collective action, but also social collective action as well. Given the limitations of this study which only used students from one department on one campus, the researchers hope that further research with a similar heading in the future can expand this type of research not only to include students, but also intra-community interactions, and not only on a scale of one room. only scope, but multiple scopes.