LITERASI MEDIA SOSIAL DAN PARTISIPASI POLITIK PEMILIH PEMULA DI TANGERANG [SOCIAL MEDIA LITERACY AND POLITIC PARTICIPATION EARLY VOTER IN TANGERANG]

The background of this activity is the the decreasing of teen’s interest and participation as the early voter in the political process. Social media use become the alternative that is expected to increase interactive political participation. On the other hand, the spreading of hoax through social media potentially disturb this political process. Thus, the social media literacy is needed by the early voter in order to accessing the political information in the right way. The method use in this activity is a workshop, including the technical way of using social media, knowledge about social media regulation, knowledge about the function and what’s in social media, also strategy in avoiding hoax when searching for political information. The workshop was held on September 19, 2018, with 66 students of SMA Negeri 5 Tangerang as the participants. The evaluation result shows that the participants are now able to search for political information and identify which one is hoax or not