Quantitative study of the cyber-nationalism spreading on twitter with hashtag indonesia and malaysia using social network analysis

Abstract

This article explores how nationalism is expressed on Twitter by the Malaysian and Indonesian young generation. Twitter has a hashtag feature, which is one of the trends popular among youths. This research investigates the patterned network behavior in Twitter among the Malaysians and Indonesians on cyber-nationalism through quantitative measurement of the connection patterns among users, information deployment, and coverage-network distance. This analysis was performed utilizing the social network analysis method, employing the NodeXL Pro software as a data collecting engine. The data were collected a day after the badminton tournament was held in Malaysia to optimize the data quality. The three network metrics levels were used to quantify their behavior, i.e., the overall network, the basic, and the advanced vertex metric.