Digital Literacy Competencies of Netizens Activities on Twitter

Sofi Arinda, Rika Lusri Virga

2018

Abstract

Hate speech is considered to be one of the problems in digital media, including Twitter. College students, as the active users or netizens, seem required to protect themselves from such a problem. Hate speech cases discovered on Twitter can be avoided by mastering digital literacy. Therefore, this research aims to find out the digital literacy competencies of netizens in terms of activity on Twitter amongst Communication Science students of Gadjah Mada University Yogyakarta. The method used in this research was qualitative by gathering data through in-depth interview then analysing it using Paul Gilster’s theory about digital literacy. The result of this research stated that Communication Science students of Gadjah Mada University Yogyakarta have digital literacy competencies based on four competencies. They are internet searching and hypertext navigation, while they still need improvement on content evaluation and knowledge assembly competencies since they tend to be critical in terms of their interest and not assembling the knowledge yet from others media to find the new one.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Arinda S. and Virga R. (2018). Digital Literacy Competencies of Netizens Activities on Twitter.In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Contemporary Social and Political Affairs - Volume 1: ICoCSPA, ISBN 978-989-758-393-3, pages 219-222. DOI: 10.5220/0008819402190222

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icocspa18,
author={Sofi Arinda and Rika Lusri Virga},
title={Digital Literacy Competencies of Netizens Activities on Twitter},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Contemporary Social and Political Affairs - Volume 1: ICoCSPA,},
year={2018},
pages={219-222},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008819402190222},
isbn={978-989-758-393-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Contemporary Social and Political Affairs - Volume 1: ICoCSPA,
TI - Digital Literacy Competencies of Netizens Activities on Twitter
SN - 978-989-758-393-3
AU - Arinda S.
AU - Virga R.
PY - 2018
SP - 219
EP - 222
DO - 10.5220/0008819402190222