The Role of Social Media in Improving the Understanding of Quran and Religious Proselytizing: A Study of High School Students in Semarang

Tri Wahyu Hidayati, Ahmad Samingan

2018

Abstract

Social media is an online media that enables its users to easily participate, share and create the content. The most common forms of social media are blog, social network, and wikis. There are more than 140 million Indonesians use internet, and they are so familiar with social media through smartphone or computer. This study aims to examine types of social media students use, how the frequency of social media usage, and the purpose of using social media. This research is an explorative descriptive study which is conducted on high school students in Semarang. The results showed that the types of social media used by students are line, whatsapp, and instagram.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Hidayati T. and Samingan A. (2018). The Role of Social Media in Improving the Understanding of Quran and Religious Proselytizing: A Study of High School Students in Semarang.In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI, ISBN 978-989-758-458-9, pages 1992-1998. DOI: 10.5220/0009938319921998

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icri18,
author={Tri Wahyu Hidayati and Ahmad Samingan},
title={The Role of Social Media in Improving the Understanding of Quran and Religious Proselytizing: A Study of High School Students in Semarang},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,},
year={2018},
pages={1992-1998},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009938319921998},
isbn={978-989-758-458-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,
TI - The Role of Social Media in Improving the Understanding of Quran and Religious Proselytizing: A Study of High School Students in Semarang
SN - 978-989-758-458-9
AU - Hidayati T.
AU - Samingan A.
PY - 2018
SP - 1992
EP - 1998
DO - 10.5220/0009938319921998