Late Breaking - Panel
5. Transmitting Knowledges: Institutions, Objects and Practices
Access to information is now widely open through the availability of various internet-based platforms that are increasingly easy for users to reach. The flow of information that occurs in online media makes expertise easily claimed and misused. Based on these factual problems, this research will focus on the practices of using online media by Indonesian netizens. Through a survey of 1,191 respondents from 10 provinces in Indonesia. The main focus of the survey is to determine the level of complexity and dynamics of use, access limits, and accumulation of information among netizens in selected areas. Considerations of the existence and access to geographical areas are still in line with various government policies regarding the provision of communications infrastructure. The research team believes that the availability of infrastructure will be directly proportional to the positive dynamics of increasing access to information. it appears that when accessing information in the media, information overload occurs which can have negative impacts both in the personal lives of individuals and in the community. Apart from that, it turns out that respondents also have digital skills regarding digital identity and digital intelligence.
Muhamad Sulhan
Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia