Smartphone, a Helping Hand

Desi Yoanita, Kartika Bayu Primasanti

2018

Abstract

Various research study and news articles reported that communication devices, such as smartphones or tablets, have changed families’ communication. Technology has replaced the parental function to provide entertainment, communication, and education. Users’ low skill of media literacy was a significant challenge in the digital age that requires ever-accelerating adaptation in all of these areas. Through the current research study, it has been revealed that there is a need for parents to be media literate in order to establish mutual communication with their children in this digital age. This research explored how parents use the newest digital technology, particularly smartphones and tablets, in relation to traditional media, for instance, TV, video games, and computer in the parenting practices. This research focused on 150 parents, whose age is around 22-39 years old, who have early years children. The problem discussed was the parenting style in this gadget-rich era. The study found that gadgets were not the respondents’ first choice to help their parenting. The devices have become the second choice in certain circumstance to help them out from challenge in parenting. On the other hand, 52% of them used deprivation of the gadget usage as disciplinary action. This research study has showed a current model of communication between parents and children in the gadget-rich era. However, the literature review suggested that this model should have been revised by enriching parental skill of technological based media literacy.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Yoanita D. and Primasanti K. (2018). Smartphone, a Helping Hand. In Proceedings of the Borneo International Conference on Education and Social Sciences - Volume 1: BICESS, ISBN 978-989-758-470-1, pages 396-401. DOI: 10.5220/0009021700002297

in Bibtex Style

@conference{bicess18,
author={Desi Yoanita and Kartika Bayu Primasanti},
title={Smartphone, a Helping Hand},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Borneo International Conference on Education and Social Sciences - Volume 1: BICESS,},
year={2018},
pages={396-401},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009021700002297},
isbn={978-989-758-470-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the Borneo International Conference on Education and Social Sciences - Volume 1: BICESS,
TI - Smartphone, a Helping Hand
SN - 978-989-758-470-1
AU - Yoanita D.
AU - Primasanti K.
PY - 2018
SP - 396
EP - 401
DO - 10.5220/0009021700002297