Abstract
The rapid development of technology and communication had given birth to a new world order that gave an impact on all aspects of the lives of citizens. This new world order was often known as social media; a new media that was born in the digital era as a result of the existence of the internet. This media made the mobility of citizens' lives became faster so that the interaction among them almost has no boundary, and resulted in the concept of digital citizenship. The emergence of social media certainly brought positive and negative impacts that automatically created disruption to citizens' behavior. The phenomenon of the spread of black campaigns, hate speech, false news (hoaxes), heated arguments toward each other became a common issue as a result of the citizens’ unpreparedness in facing an era of disruption. Therefore, digital literacy was a necessity in this era of disrupted society so that becoming a smart and good citizen would not only be a discourse on the issue of citizenship.
Highlights
Today, the globalization has almost completely revolutionized human life
One of the major causes of this phenomenon was the existence of internet—in which born as a result of the rapid development of technology and information in the era of globalization
The Indonesian Internet Service Providers Association (APJII) in collaboration with the University of Indonesia's Communication Studies Center (Puskakom) stated that there was a total of 88.1 million Internet users in Indonesia in 2015
Summary
The globalization has almost completely revolutionized human life. The world today has no real geographical boundaries. The nature of social media which is accessed, cut distance in communication, and has no limited to space and time, becomes the affirmation that social media comes to be an extension of the human body Such conditions are in accordance with the Global Village theory by Marshall Mcluhan who called it as the medium of an extension of human faculties—the new interaction hub that provides spaces for people to share, tell stories and channel ideas, which makes virtual migration inevitable. Fake news (hoaxes), hate speech, curses, verbal abuse, acts of intolerance spread on various social media platforms This phenomenon is clearly worrying for the sustainability of society in Indonesia since it might harm the stability of the country. It is expected that after the citizens have good competence, they can solve the problems they face wisely, given the demands in their lives that began to be disrupted as a result of life in the 4.0 industrial revolution
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