Digital Literacy Competence of Parents in Supervising Their Children Using Digital Media

Ponco Budi Sulistyo,Universitas Mercu Buana, Jakarta, Indonesia

doi:10.47191/ijsshr/v5-i2-32

Abstract

This research aims to determine parents’ competence of essential aspects of digital literacy for their children with the qualitative descriptive method. The research results show that parents who are constantly moving to keep up with existing developments felt the parents’ competence of digital media literacy, despite not entirely in depth. They try to improve their competence in various ways for each parent, including giving direction to their children to prevent and introspect for themselves and children who have positioned this digital media technology very close to whatever the activities are.

Highlights

The development of digital technology, especially in field of information and communication, has brought significant changes to the pattern of human life, including communication patterns
Several parents stated that they introduced digital media to their children before reaching adolescence
Some parents stated that they have no choice but to allow their toddler children to use digital media for an educational purpose such as online school

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Introduction

The development of digital technology, especially in field of information and communication, has brought significant changes to the pattern of human life, including communication patterns. Researchers view that one must distinguish between various online activities and identify individual relationships as monitored through various media to understand the role of the internet in social life. Information and communication technology as alternative channels for social interaction and information exchange has contributed to the rise of networked communities helpful in organizing, coordinating, supporting, and maintaining ‘real life’ activism (Biddix & Park, 2008). Data released by Indonesia Internet Service Provider Association (APJII) shows that there were 171.17 million internet users in Indonesia in 2018 When it comes to age, these internet users were dominated by millennials. Millennials are a group of people born in the early 1980s to early 2000s Another millennial age who dominated the other top positions regarding internet users in Indonesia, which is 20-24 years old with a penetration of 88.5% (Haryanto, 2019)

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