Rise against rumors: Leveraging online social movements for hoax prevention by netizens

Background: Misinformation and harmful content spread on social media have sparked the anti-hoax movement. This research examines the motivations and participation of network users in combating hoaxes on digital platforms. Further investigation is required to examine the impact of framing, collective identity, and action factors on the propensity of netizens to actively engage in combating online hoaxes. Purpose: This study focused on framing, collective identity, and action components to explore the motivations behind netizens’ involvement in the anti-hoax movement on social media. Methods: In this study, web scraping, surveys, and netnographic techniques were employed to examine the motivations and trends of participation in the anti-hoax campaign. Data were collected from active members of MAFINDO on Facebook to facilitate this investigation. Results: Social media platforms, like those that MAFINDO uses, offer significant spaces for empowering and mobilizing communities to counteract false information and harmful content. The intentional construction of the anti-hoax movement, the establishment of a collective identity, and the alignment with the values of internet users were crucial elements in driving active engagement. The community employed efficacious tactics to counteract misinformation, such as verifying facts and presenting opposing viewpoints. These findings demonstrate the efficacy of social media platforms in resolving online problems. Conclusion: The effectiveness of the anti-hoax campaign hinges on factors like framing, collective identity, and agency that inspire internet users to engage and tackle the challenges of misinformation on social media. Implications: This study emphasizes how social media plays a key role in mobilizing internet users to fight hoaxes through effective framing, shared identity, and customized action factors

Parenting styles and digital literacy: Uncovering their correlation among adolescents

Background: The development process of digital literacy is gradual and significantly influenced by parenting style. How parents raise their children significantly impacts how well-trained adolescents are in media-related behaviour. Purpose: The study aims to examine the relationship between the digital literacy levels of adolescent - students at the Faculty of Communication Science, Universitas Islam Bandung - and the parenting styles they experience within their families. Methods: This research employed a quantitative approach within the positivistic paradigm. It involved a sample of 120 students. Results: This study revealed that adolescents from families with authoritative parenting styles exhibited higher levels of digital literacy than those from authoritarian, permissive and neglectful families. Meanwhile, adolescents from neglectful family backgrounds demonstrated the lowest degree of digital literacy. These findings provide a foundation for developing adolescent digital literacy and, consequently, promoting cyber wellness by achieving a balance between online and offline life. Conclusion: This research indicated no significant relationship between parenting style and students’ digital literacy at the Faculty of Communication, Universitas Islam Bandung. Implications: Nevertheless, it is worth noting that students raised within a family with an authoritative parenting style tend to exhibit higher digital literacy abilities, although the difference is not statistically significant. This study also introduces a comparative theory, highlighting the contrast between students, who are digital natives, and their parents, who can be considered digital immigrants

Climate change and environment issues in cyber media construction in Indonesia

Background: The issue of climate change and the environment has not become the primary focus of the media in Indonesia, but it is frequently featured in the news. This occurs because the media fulfils its function as a provider of information. Purpose: This study seeks to explain how cyber media constructs climate change and environmental issues in the news. Methods: Research with a qualitative approach and qualitative descriptive methods, with critical discourse analysis as the data analysis technique. The websites Kompas.com, Okezone.com, and Suara.com are the subject of study. Results: According to the study, climate is the word that appears the most frequently in the text of the three media. Change is the term that appears most frequently on Kompas.com and Suara.com. Indonesia is the most popular search term on Okezone.com. At the level of production, cyber media lacks an agenda-setting team, a dedicated channel, or a specialized team devoted to the environment and climate change. At the social level, they only generate news related to the environment and climate change if it has gone viral and is trending on social media. Conclusion: The research concludes that there are both distinctions and similarities among the three cyber media in terms of the words that appear most frequently in news articles about environmental issues and climate change. They lack agenda-setting, a dedicated channel, and a specialized team. They are oblivious to environmental issues and climate change. Implications: The research has implications for agenda setting from theoretical implications. The media does not set an agenda and only follows the viral, trending, and important public issues. The implication is that cyber media gives viral issues a news value

Participatory communication as the key to successful disaster management in Pangandaran district

Background: Pangandaran, situated within the province of West Java, is considered a region susceptible to natural disasters, leading to significant material damages and, unfortunately, loss of human life. This particular calamity has attracted the attention of various stakeholders, encompassing the local government, affiliated organizations, social communities, volunteers, and numerous others. The circumstances mentioned above have led to the development of participatory communication initiatives to promote cooperation in disaster management. Purpose: This study aims to ascertain the factors contributing to heteroglossia, discourse, polyphony, and collaboration among communities and volunteers. Methods: The research method utilized in this study is a descriptive study, incorporating a range of data collection techniques, including in-depth interviews, observation, and literature analysis. Furthermore, to conduct comprehensive data analysis, this study involves data reduction, data display, conclusion derivation, and verification. Moreover, the technique employed for data source identification involves systematically classifying stakeholders, including individuals affiliated with institutions and community members/volunteers who actively participate in collaborative efforts to address disaster-related issues in the Pangandaran Regency. Additionally, the study involved a cohort of five key informants deliberately chosen to represent the community under the study. Results: The study results indicate that, despite differences in tasks, responsibilities, roles, and level of expertise within the community or volunteers, they are willing to exchange knowledge, drawing on their viewpoints openly. Furthermore, the dialogue process that unfolds among the community/volunteers takes the form of a democratic discussion to attain consensus in their respective roles. Conclusion: Communities/volunteers have established collaborative efforts grounded in their understanding, awareness and commitment to assisting individuals affected by adverse circumstances. Moreover, shared norms and beliefs have guided their robust, extensive relationships and networks

Social media for Indonesian and Philippines students

Background: The digital era has changed the behavior of students who are very responsive to technology, especially social media. However, social media has a different role and impact on their life. Purpose: This study aims to find out the interest of Indonesian and Philippines students in using social media, to find out their activities and their opinions about their social media usage. Method: This study used qualitative descriptive with purposive sampling resulting in eight people as informants spread across Indonesia and the Philippines. Results: This study found that almost all students use and have social media accounts. They use it to access education, and entertainment and to increase their local, national, and international knowledge, especially among those who participate in the Merdeka Learning program, while Philippines students participate in the international lecture program. With the existence of social media, they rarely watch television, radio, and newspaper, although there are some Indonesian informants who still like to read newspapers, there are differences in the interest in using social media by Indonesian and Philippines students. Indonesian students use social media such as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Telegram, Meanwhile, Philippines students use Facebook more when interacting with their campus friends. The students see social media changed the pattern of their daily life, for example, the lack of direct social interaction and the increase of cybercrime, while the positive impact of social media is the ability to do storytelling on social media, making it easier to communicate. Conclusion: Philippines students use Facebook more than popular social media such as Instagram and Tiktok, in contrast to Indonesian students who primarily use Instagram and Tiktok. Implication: That both Filipino and Indonesian students utilize social media, but there are differences in their preferences and usage pattern

Information network on Twitter regarding early warning of mount Semeru eruption

Background: Indonesia is a country that is highly susceptible to volcanic disasters. One potential measure the community can take is to utilize social media platforms to participate in disaster mitigation efforts. The hashtag #Semeru exemplifies the utilization of social media in disseminating information regarding volcanic disasters. It became a trending topic on Twitter regarding the information on the eruption of Mount Semeru at the end of 2021. Purpose: The primary objective of this research is to examine the operational mechanisms of the Mount Semeru eruption early warning system on Twitter. Furthermore, the objective is to determine the key actors responsible for disseminating early warning information on Twitter. Methods: This study employed the Social Network Analysis (SNA) method. Results: The findings show that the network distribution pattern of the Semeru eruption early warning system has a radial communication network pattern with indicators of low network density levels. The actors @fiersabesari, @bnonews, @asumsico, @disclose.tv, @jawafess, and @insiderpaper have a proximity centrality value of 0 due to their lack of acquaintance. On the other hand, two actors possess a closeness centrality value: @melodiysore with a value of 0.8 and @daryonoBMKG with a value of 0.2. This study highlighted that the actors involved in disaster management and mitigation had a level of popularity that ranked outside the top 10. Conclusions: The information network system for the early warning of the Mount Semeru eruption on Twitter forms a network distribution with a radial communication pattern that is concentrated at one point and acts as a key actor. Eight key actors play a role in disseminating early warning messages, specifically @fiersabesari, @daryonoBMKG, @bnonews, @asumsico, @disclose.tv, @theinsiderpaper, @melodiysore, and @jawafess (community). Implications: This study demonstrates the benefits of using Twitter as a timely indicator for disasters, notably the eruption of Mount Semeru. It can effectively engage the community and government in disseminating early-warning information about volcanic eruptions

Health-protective behavior during the pandemic: Does media exposure to COVID-19 information matter?

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted people to seek and get information on COVID-19 through the mass media or social media. It is expected to impact their beliefs, attitudes, and actions toward health-protective behavior. Purpose: This study aims to see how health-protective behavior amid a pandemic is predicted by exposure to COVID-19 information in the mass media and on social media. Methods: The current study advances the theory of planned behavior by surveying 413 persons cross-sectionally on Java Island, Indonesia. PLS-SEM was employed to assess measurement and structural models in order to answer the hypotheses. Results: The findings reveal that using mass media and social media to receive knowledge about COVID-19 strongly predicts intentions and behavior to apply preventive behavior, which is mediated by perceived behavioral control (PBC) and attitude. Conclusion: This research concludes that social media and mass media significantly positively influence three important aspects of forming behavioral intentions, and it also found that attitude, subjective norms, and PBC are important aspects of existing behavioral intention. Implications: This research also looks at the theoretical and practical ramifications. Theoretically, media use is related to the application of the TPB model. Practically, the government needs to optimize the mass media and social media use to reach the public with lots of valid, easy-to-understand COVID-19 information and generate positive optimism from the public

Framing analysis of Anies Baswedan as an Indonesian presidential candidate in the sacrificial cow numbered 024 case

Background: The news coverage from Detik.com and Kompas.com regarding the sacrificial cow numbered 024, associated with Anies as a presidential candidate for 2024, presents an intriguing subject. These media outlets differ in their ideologies. Purpose: This study aims to examine the framing of Anies as a 2024 presidential candidate in the news coverage of Detik.com and Kompas.com during the Eid al-Adha moment in 2022. As each moment during a Political Year holds the potential to influence public opinion and impact the electability of political figures, understanding the framing strategies employed by the media is crucial. Method: This research utilizes a qualitative approach, analyzing ten news articles from Detik.com and two news articles from Kompas.com. The analysis includes an examination of titles, news content, and accompanying pictures or photos, employing Robert Mathew Entman’s framing analysis model. Results: Detik.com and Kompas.com adopt different perspectives in framing the news about Anies. Detik.com presents news in two directions, where some articles suggest that the existence of cow number 024 is merely coincidental, while others imply a connection between the incident and political issues. In contrast, Kompas.com employs a single form of framing, portraying it as a political symbol. Conclusion: It can be concluded that Kompas.com’s coverage is relatively limited and less accommodating compared to Detik.com. However, Kompas.com presents Anies’ reporting as a form of “political language,” positioning him as a potential “dark horse” in the 2024 Indonesian Presidential Election. Implications: This study sheds light on the construction of meaning and public opinion towards Anies, influenced by the news consumed by individuals. The media’s framing of Anies plays a significant role in shaping public perception and impacting public opinion regarding his candidacy

Street vendor sustainability: SMART communication approaches for green innovation

Background: Street vendors in Bandung City significantly contribute to economic development and job creation. However, many violate orderliness, cleanliness, and green zonation regulations. To cope with the problem, the Government of Bandung City initiates facilitation to empower the MSME to improve their business values and status and adopt the market development and preferences in terms of digital marketing, environmental friendliness, and green innovation. Purpose: The current research aimed to measure the improvement of street vendors’ capabilities of utilizing communication technology and developing green innovation. Methods: The research used a quantitative approach with a questionnaire spread to the street vendors around the City. It was participated by 89 street vendors. Result: The research demonstrated positive and strong relationships between street vendors’ skill, administration, and saving capabilities as independent variables and innovation as dependent variables. Meanwhile, the independent variable has less relation with innovation, which means they are still dependent on being capable of making green innovation. Conclusion: Referring to the research result, the facilitation and assistance programs should improve street vendors’ business skills, particularly in green practices for innovation. Implications: The research revealed the strong capability of street vendors in using digital communication, such as social media and e-commerce. Nevertheless, further research is required to examine the relationship between digital media and e-commerce capabilities in the adoption of green innovation

Communication of da’wah diversity in digital screens on the Leonardo’s Youtube channel

Background: This study examines the content of Leonardo’s YouTube channel titled “Journey of Religion: Habib Ja’far,” which focuses on presenting Islamic perspectives on diversity in Indonesia. The Islamic message is effectively conveyed through innovative means. Purpose: The objective of this study was to conduct an analysis of the messages pertaining to religious moderation as given by Habib Ja’far in the video. Methods: The study employed a qualitative methodology to conduct the research. The data were gathered through the application of Pierre Levy’s media theory, utilizing observation and analysis of literature and documentation. Results: The findings of this study indicate that social communication pertaining to religious tolerance is characterized by the integration of individuals through the utilization of new media platforms, such as the internet. Additionally, it was observed that Habib Ja’far’s delivery of religious messages is easily comprehensible. Furthermore, the central themes of his da’wah revolve around the concepts of the heart and love. Lastly, the contents of his da’wah can be categorized into distinct groups. Conclusion: The cultivation of religious tolerance can be facilitated by genuine and uncomplicated social encounters, bolstered by the utilization of contemporary communication platforms. Implications: The findings of this study suggest that the concept of religious moderation can be effectively communicated to younger generations through virtual platforms