Millennial Generation in West Java Governor Election: Political Communication and Information Media Copyright

Peneliti

Dr. Adiyana Slamet, S.IP., M.Si

Deskripsi/Abstrak

Abstract—This research intends to know how millennial generation elect in 2018 West Java Governor election and the kind of political communication media that is used by millennial generation to search for the information about the West Java Governor candidates, so they make certain about their selection based on their political knowledge about the West Java Governor candidate's perspective. West Java Election constituent from total of 32.482.000 constituent, there are 30% or at least there are 9.745.200 constituent. This research used qualitative approach with case studies design. Results of the research millennial generation, in order to search about political information about the governor candidates use social media, where the political information limited on photos and videos only, that does not fully contain the visions of the candidates. Rather than that, it only shows how often the governor candidates exist in social media. In addition, to see the language and appearance of the governor candidates that can equalize the characteristics of millennial generation in 2018 West Java Governor election, also the political information's can motivate millennial generation to participate and elect the candidates that reputed to convinced millennial generation. The conclusion is that the impact of the research done by the millennial generation has an alternative political communication media to get political information's that they wanted, and by only looking at the language and appearance aspects of the governor candidates. In the end, the substance of political information's about the visions of the candidates is not a serious concern anymore.