Digital Literacy Tool Wattpad for Promotion of Religious Values through Popular Literary Texts

Rosida Erowati, Novi Haryanti, Tanenji Tanenji, Muhammad Arif, Makyun Subuki, Neneng Nurjanah

2021

Abstract

Digital literacy is essential today since the world has become more connected than ever in human history. The tools for digital literacy are being created from time to time. One of which is Wattpad, a digital platform focuses on writing and sharing stories. Wattpad is regarded as one of the largest digital platform in the field of literature. Wattpad Indonesia has the reputation in proliferating popular literary texts. This article intended to explain how religious values are being promoted through digital literacy tool Wattpad. The method used in this research is content analysis with data triangulation by expert judgement. The source of data are Mariposa (2016) and Mozachiko (2018). The results show that Wattpad as digital literacy tool has characteristic in the interactivity between writer and reader. The interactivity made possible for the reader to respond immediately to the event in the narrative. In both novels, the promotion of religious values were indicated in the characters and the resolution of the conflicts. The value being promoted were on the level of belief, the level of religious practice, and the level of behavior / morals. These religious values were immediately responded by their readers with the statement of agreement/praising to the action of the characters through the feature of comment.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Erowati R., Haryanti N., Tanenji T., Arif M., Subuki M. and Nurjanah N. (2021). Digital Literacy Tool Wattpad for Promotion of Religious Values through Popular Literary Texts. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI, ISBN 978-989-758-602-6, pages 17-23. DOI: 10.5220/0011240000003376

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icri21,
author={Rosida Erowati and Novi Haryanti and Tanenji Tanenji and Muhammad Arif and Makyun Subuki and Neneng Nurjanah},
title={Digital Literacy Tool Wattpad for Promotion of Religious Values through Popular Literary Texts},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,},
year={2021},
pages={17-23},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011240000003376},
isbn={978-989-758-602-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,
TI - Digital Literacy Tool Wattpad for Promotion of Religious Values through Popular Literary Texts
SN - 978-989-758-602-6
AU - Erowati R.
AU - Haryanti N.
AU - Tanenji T.
AU - Arif M.
AU - Subuki M.
AU - Nurjanah N.
PY - 2021
SP - 17
EP - 23
DO - 10.5220/0011240000003376