Democratic Challenge in Digital Era

Abstract

This article is based on the growing development of social media in the digital era which provides new public spaces for citizens to express themselves and their interactions with fellow citizens in various aspects of life.  This  article  us ed  library research method to answer  the  changes  from procedural democracy to substantial democracy and the way of democratic citizenship through social media. This article  reveal ed that the use of social media is no longer limited to daily needs, however, social media has a significant role in building political culture as well as citizenship issues in society.