The Impact of Basic Ethics and Digital Literacy on Globalized Social Media (original) (raw)

"Media literacy and Media ethics -case study on social media"

Proceedings, 2022

Public as the whole, researchers and creators of the politics treats the youth as special type of the media consumers. Children are much more exposed to the risk of negative consequences of the influence of media messages because kids are on much lower level of development-in cognitive, emotional and moral point of view-and does not have experience in real life for the adequate processing of media messages. But, when we leave childhood and entered growing stage, that does not mean appropriate media literacy by three reasons: First, many young and adult people do not make progress in development much more than from the level achieved in childhood. Secondly, life experience of many adults is not so various and substantial to make possible rising of the level of media literacy. Third, gaining of media literacy, and through that proper ethical approach, requests also development of special abilities and active application of the skills-and that does not come automatically with the age. So, to be able to understand concrete issue, we made a research among young Indian children and the outcomes of 309 youngsters (10-14 years of age) will show the most important focus. Which one? Need of Media literacy and Media ethics to be involved in schooling process since the young age. Again, why? To be able to create a thoughts of critical thinking and to develop their own answers on the questions life in front of them raises. For the benefit not just of them, but also of the society as the whole, regardless within which ideology (left and/or right) they are living within.

Media Literacyof High School Students in Critical and Safe Social Media

International Journal of Multidisciplinary, 2022

Misconceptions about free speech often led to digital crimes. In Indonesia, cases of defamation and hate speech on social media continue to increase. Especially during this COVID-19 pandemic, where people are doing more online activities. Therefore, students should learn media literacy to not be part of the crimes. In this quasi-experimental research, media literacy material was integrated with Pancasila and citizenship education at the senior high school level in Semarang District. The control group used expository learning with a video conference application such as Zoom and uploaded their assignment to Google Drive. The experimental group used discussion-based learning and posted assignments on their Instagram accounts. In this study, ten multiple-choice questions presented digital contents that were proven to have violated the Electronic Information and Transaction Law. Students should identify the violations committed and choose the correct answer. Both groups showed similar pre-test (6.00 and 5.82) and post-test (6.47 and 6.00) scores. However, the experimental group showed attitudes change in the discussion. Many of them commented, "be careful in commenting" which is the best way to avoid online violation. This study recommends teachers conduct democratic learning through social media to provide students with real experiences and improve their social skills.

Digital Literacy: The Right Solution to Overcome the Various Problems of Meaning and Communication on Social Media

Studies in Media and Communication, 2023

Problems with meaning arise when symbols interact in digital communication on social media between users. Different messages may be interpreted differently due to symbolic exchanges between social media users. This paper examines how message meaning relates to current social media challenges. The data used to address the issue was obtained from an online survey of social media users, and the semiotics method was employed (denotation and connotation). This study concludes that people who utilize social media have a higher propensity to read the news and become more authentic by sharing it. To read social media text messages denotatively has ideological consequences for users and connotative implications. Social media messaging's ideological impact creates the purpose of action (change of view on an issue, for example, COVID-19 vaccination). This paper contributes to digital media literacy, which develops critical thinking abilities based on digital knowledge by choosing to read news content. Besides, this paper contributes to the capacity to critically create content based on digital culture (positive news content) and offer critical commentary based on digital ethics (politeness in providing language). This article discusses the benefits and importance of news content comments and the ability to share news content critically based on digital safety by safely evaluating information before sharing it.

Students' Digital Ethics Profile in the Era of Disruption: An Overview from the Internet Use at Risk in Surakarta City, Indonesia

International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM), 2020

This study aims to reveal students' profile of digital ethics in Surakarta City, Indonesia. Current technological trends generate significant implications for the technological digitalizations to all parts of human lives. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is increasingly integrated in society. This condition at least triggers the emergence of an era of disruption due to changes in the order and lifestyle of the younger generation who prefer the use of various digital technologies in their daily life activities. In recent years, a lot of discussion about the risks and opportunities of digital technology on teenagers have been many found. From several studies conclude that the highest students' communication activities have been majorly done through online. Internet at risk use engages students' live activities, among others, expressing personal data, bullying, hoaxes, and hate speech to accessing the pornographic contents. Digital ethics is one of the components in digital citizenship from which the users must adhere to. Netiquette, a hybrid word combining "network" and "etiquette," essentially referring to the social code of the Internet. As netiquette includes how we communicate, treat others, describe and protect ourselves online related to ethical issues. This study was designed with a quantitativedescriptive research model that applies the survey method. The survey was conducted in three schools, each of which was the high school, the state vocational school and private vocational high school in the Surakarta residency area. The study subjects involved as many as 210 students, from ages 15 to 17 years participating in the survey. The questionnaire consisted of 16 statements applying Likert's point of scale one to five. The results showed that students' digital ethics with having fewer categories had the highest percentage of 35.23%. While those with enough category reached 32.85% and those with good category was 31.90%. One of the effective ways to strengthening students' digital ethics can be realized through humanistic literacy, which is integrated into Civics Education subject at schools.

Education of the Media: Media Ethics within the frame of Social Media"

​International Journal on Global Business Management and Research, 2020

With outstanding advantages, social media has been changing the habit of searching, sharing and using of the public media. The problem is that, in an "open" society, social media is often associated with informal communication activities, because it allows users to easily join a certain group on social networks to chat and make your own point of view on an issue they are concerned about. Of course, to be able to use and not to be abused by social media, we need a media literate, open-minded people who are critically involved in this kind of the creation and exchange of media content. From the technical art of media perspective, social media is operated based on online services, news can be shared and spread quickly and interactively among people. join. The top issue is to attach importance to media ethics in social media.

Study of Perceptions of Social Media Users Regarding Digital Ethics

International Journal of Human Resource Studies

This study aims to determine: 1) an overview of the social demographic characteristics of social media users, 2) knowledge of social media users regarding digital ethics, and 3) perceptions of social media users regarding digital ethics from the social media they use. The method of collecting data in the field is a survey using a questionnaire distributed to respondents online with the help of google forms and sampling is done by purposive sampling, with a total sample of 250 respondents. The variables used in this study include: demographic and social characteristics, user knowledge of ethics in the use of social media, and user perceptions of ethics in the use of social media. The data analysis technique used descriptive analysis. The description of the knowledge of social media users regarding digital ethics includes the Law on Information and Electronic Transactions (UU ITE) and the regulations and sanctions contained in the ITE Law, it was found that most respondents stated the...

Efektivitas Etika Digital Netizen Indonesia Terhadap Ujaran Kebencian di Instagram

2022

This research is motivated by mass communication and retrieval of information on Instagram, creating hate speech on digital platforms. With the availability of social media as a way of conveying the essential knowledge, society's pattern has evolved, either implicitly or unseen, causing bias in culture, ethics, and norms, resulting in conflict. Within the axiological analysis, this study intends to identify hate speech on Instagram and analyze the effectiveness of digital ethics. The study's subject is an improper Instagram comment. This research method uses a literature review method. This research collects data from various journals and finds proof of hate speech on Instagram. The freedom of expression results in this literature study state that many social media users do not apply excellent and polite social media ethics. Besides that, axiological studies supported these results that do not help ethical skills related to moral and aesthetic values. In addition, many Indon...

Digital Literacy for Covid 19 Information in Indonesian Society

2021

In the midst of the COVID19 pandemic situation, hoax news emerged that made people panic and make wrong decisions. The emergence of this hoax is because many people are not literate with information, so they trust all the information entered. People also do not have the social awareness to filter the information they get. This study aims to describe the level of literacy of the digital community towards COVID19 information measured on the internet. The research method used is a descriptive type with a survey method. The research location was in East Java, with a total of 500 respondents consisting of several segmentations of people who actively use the internet as a source of information. The results of this study indicate that the digital literacy level for COVID19 information is good with an average value of 3.69. Of the five dimensions of digital literacy that are used as the highest measuring tool of the very high ethical awareness dimension, the second position is the media eva...

Digital Literacy of Social Media Users in Medan City in Facing Hoax

International Journal of Modern Trends in Social Sciences, 2021

Hoax and digitalization have become a threat to global democracy. During this pandemic, WhatsApp in collaboration with the Ministry of Communication and Informatics (Kominfo) has been successfully taken down 1, 759 hoaxes spreading on social media. Thus hoax content is circulating from January 23 to October 18, 2020. This study examines the literacy capability of social media users in Medan City in facing misinformation (Hoax). The purpose of this study is to describe the knowledge of social media users in Medan City regarding hoaxes; describing the process of spreading hoaxes among social media users in Medan City, as well as to identify the types of hoaxes mostly received and spread by social media users. The quantitative descriptive method is used in this study The samples of this study amount to 250 respondents selected in the accidental method. The results obtained from the aforementioned respondents show that respondents agreed that hoax is ‘a deliberate fake news. They stated...