Abstract
<p class="0abstract"><strong>Abstract—</strong><em> </em>This study aims to reveal students' profile of digital ethics in Surakarta City, Indonesia. Current technological trends generate significant implications for the technological digitalizations to all parts of human lives. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is increasingly integrated in society. This condition at least triggers the emergence of an era of disruption due to changes in the order and lifestyle of the younger generation who prefer the use of various digital technologies in their daily life activities. In recent years, a lot of discussion about the risks and opportunities of digital technology on teenagers have been many found. From several studies conclude that the highest students' communication activities have been majorly done through online. Internet at risk use engages students’ live activities, among others, expressing personal data, bullying, hoaxes, and hate speech to accessing the pornographic contents. Digital ethics is one of the components in digital citizenship from which the users must adhere to. Netiquette, a hybrid word combining "network" and "etiquette," essentially referring to the social code of the Internet. As netiquette includes how we communicate, treat others, describe and protect ourselves online related to ethical issues. This study was designed with a quantitative-descriptive research model that applies the survey method. The survey was conducted in three schools, each of which was the high school, the state vocational school and private vocational high school in the Surakarta residency area. The study subjects involved as many as 210 students, from ages 15 to 17 years participating in the survey. The questionnaire consisted of 16 statements applying Likert's point of scale one to five. The results showed that students’ digital ethics with having less category had the highest percentage of 35.23%. While those with enough category reached 32.85% and those with good category was 31.90%. One of the effective ways to strengthening students' digital ethics can be realized through humanistic literacy which is integrated into Civics Education subject at schools.</p>
Highlights
Current technological trend introduced to society has led the presence of digitalization in all sectors of modern human life society
This study aims to find out how the digital ethics profile of students in the era of disruption in terms of internet use is at risk
The data in this study indicate that the internet use at risk for students have been much on the attitudes of bullying at the highest frequency, while expressing personal information is at the lowest frequency or even infrequently done by average students
Summary
Current technological trend introduced to society has led the presence of digitalization in all sectors of modern human life society. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is increasingly integrated at the heart of society. The Ministry of Information and Communication revealed that the survey results from eMarketer.com showed that the number of internet users around the world would reach 3 billion in 2015. In 2018, as many as 3.6 billion people on earth have been predicted to access the internet at least once every month. Affordable mobile phones and mobile broadband connections are driving growth in internet access in countries that cannot rely on the fixed line, either because of infrastructure problems or costs, according to senior eMarketer analyst Monica Peart. Indonesia is ranked sixth most internet users in the world. This expanding connectivity is associated with what many consider to be the peak of cellular communication technology. Sophisticated Smartphone that integrates various functions in one hand [8]
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