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*Submitted as an end-term essay at Goldsmiths, University of London. Source: https://www.voaindonesia.com/a/penundaan-ruu-p-ks-semakin-ditunda-semakin-banyak-korban/5492115.html QUESTION Drawing on contemporary examples discuss whether the internet reinvigorates the political public sphere and expands citizenship or exacerbates existing tensions and economic and social inequalities. A. INTRODUCTION   This essay is particularly interested in how digital media affordances may give benefit or disempower different political actors. Some studies have measured how the network technology enhances public participation, hence democracy, which are then reexamined by critical scholars that situate media power and its limitation more carefully. Drawing a case study from Indonesia, this essay adds its voice to the later, arguing that the democratic potential of the internet pales in comparison with the existing structure that will always find its way to repatriate and exerts its influence. This...