LITERASI MEDIA DIGITAL MAHASISWA SURAKARTA DALAM MENSIKAPI HOAX DI MEDIA SOSIAL

Abstract

Descriptive qualitative research titled " Digital Media Literacy of Undergraduate Student of
Surakarta In Dealing with Hoaxes in Social Media " is motivated by the rise of hoaxes in social
media. And even the viral in the student WhatsApp group incidentally includes the intellectuals
and future leaders of Indonesia. Data collection method in this research is done by interview,
observation and document searching. The data validity was obtained by triangulation, the data
was analyzed irreverently with reference to New Media Literacy theory by Jenkin et al. (2009).
The results showed that the Surakarta undergraduate students have a fairly good level of Digital
Media Literacy. They can also identify false news or hoax, but in their daily behavior they are
less critical when receiving or accessing information so as to allow exposure to hoax even
inadvertently participating in Whatsapp social media.
Keywords: digital media literacy, hoaxes, undergraduate students