[Twitter menjadi ruang publicsphere yang diciptakan dalam komunitas maya atau
virtualsphere. Penggunaannya pun bisa beralih fungsi menjadi ranah debat politik,
gerakan mahasiswa hingga kampanye partai kepentingan demi meningkatakan
elektabilitas. Untuk itulah penelitian mengenai hubungan antara jaringan sosial pada
Twitter terhadap partisipasi politik online dan offline dilakukan. Dengan mengambil
sampel mahasiswa yang tergabung dalam organisasi BEM FISIP UI 2014 dan BPM
FISIP UI 2014. Dan hasilnya, bahwa jaringan sosial pengguna twitter cenderung
kurang mempengaruhi partisipasi politik online dan offline. Namun, ditemukan
bahwa dalam virtualsphere terjadi fenomena slacktivism dan clicktivism pada
mahasiswa.;Twitter have became shared information from user to other user. Even, it could be a
new public sphere in a virtual sphere. The function of twitter may be used for
political aspect like debate, discussion, making a new student movements, or
campaign from political parties for successing their goals. This study is finding
relationship between social network on Twitter as independent variable and political
participation. The sample of this study is member of BEM FISIP UI 2014 and BPM
FISIP UI 2014. The results is relationship in social networking on twitter and political
participation (online-offline) tend lowest. And, this study also finding phenomenon
like as slacktivism and clictivism in virtualsphere., Twitter have became shared information from user to other user. Even, it could be a
new public sphere in a virtual sphere. The function of twitter may be used for
political aspect like debate, discussion, making a new student movements, or
campaign from political parties for successing their goals. This study is finding
relationship between social network on Twitter as independent variable and political
participation. The sample of this study is member of BEM FISIP UI 2014 and BPM
FISIP UI 2014. The results is relationship in social networking on twitter and political
participation (online-offline) tend lowest. And, this study also finding phenomenon
like as slacktivism and clictivism in virtualsphere.]