Digital Literacy and HOAX on Social Media

DOI

10.2991/aicosh-19.2019.37How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Digital Literacy, Hoax, Social Media

Abstract

The development of communication technology by the Smartphone currently makes everyone share information very quickly. Information that is spread through cyberspace is easily accepted by people who read it and often results in problems in the real world as the information is not undoubtedly accurate. Finally, it becomes a phenomenon of dissemination of false information called HOAX. To anticipate the phenomenon of HOAX, many campuses, organizations, and institutions have the urge to do digital literacy. One of them is Yayasan Festival Film Pelajar Yogyakarta. So, in this research, the researcher wants to see how digital literacy activities that have been doing by Yayasan Festival Film Pelajar Jogja to overcome the spread of HOAX. Using methodological research which are in-depth interviews and documentation, the researcher found that digital literacy activities were conducted through Focus Group Discussions (FGD) and Simulations led by an expert from the Indonesian Journalists Association as well as a senior journalist from The Jakarta Post. In the event finally, it gave a lot of knowledge and new insights for participants about what HOAX is. Moreover, the participants also practiced directly through the simulation of how to check information received through social media like Facebook, Whatsapp group, Twitter, and Instagram, whether the information is true or false.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Rika Lusri Virga
AU  - Nanang Andriadi
PY  - 2019/08
DA  - 2019/08
TI  - Digital Literacy and HOAX on Social Media
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st Annual Internatioal Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities (AICOSH 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 175
EP  - 179
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aicosh-19.2019.37
DO  - 10.2991/aicosh-19.2019.37
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