Impact of Smart Phone Communication Technology and Instagram SocialMedia on Student Political Participation Prior to the 2019 Presidential Elections: STKIP Pasundan Cimahi Batch 2018 Students' Research

Student political participation in the 2014 presidential election sparked this study's development. There were 190.3 million registered voters in this year's presidential election; 57 million of those voted abstentionally, or 24.89 percent of the electorate. This low political participation arises since there is a lot of news and information on the 2019 Presidential Election from profiles on Instagram social media. News that is both factual and false can have a significant impact on how people respond to news in the 2019 Presidential Elections. The problem formulation in this study is as follows: 1) Is there any influence of smartphone communication tools and Instagram social media on STKIP Pasundan students' political participation? 2). How influential are smartphone communication technologies and Instagram social media on STKIP Pasundan students' political participation in 2018? The goal of this study was to see how smartphone communication technologies and Instagram social media affected STKIP Pasundan students' political participation in 2018. This study employs a quantitative approach to data collection. Random sampling is used in this experiment. The findings of this research indicate that 1) There is no influence of smartphone communication tools on the level of political engagement of students from the class of 2018 at STKIP Pasundan, as shown by the findings of t count 0.561 t table 1.664. 2) The results of t count 5.747 and t table 1.664 indicate that there is an influence of social media Instagram on the political engagement of STKIP Pasundan students from the class of 2018. This is due of the first finding. 3) Both independent variables 1 and 2 have an influence on the dependent variable at the same time since the F count for the entire experiment is greater than the F table for the entire experiment. 4) The value of the coefficient of determination is 40.02 percent, and the remaining 59.98 percent is determined by other variables that are outside of the scope of this study