Empowering Indonesian women through building digital media literacy

There is still a gender digital divide in Indonesia. Indonesian women need digital media literacy skills to effectively use the Internet and to raise their quality of life. Empowering literacy abilities includes the skills of using digital media to access, search, analyze, reflect, share, and create...

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Published in:Kasetsart journal of social sciences 2017-09, Vol.38 (3), p.212-217
Main Authors: Suwana, Fiona, Lily
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
digital divide
digital media literacy
gender digital divide
Indonesia
women's media literacy
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Summary:There is still a gender digital divide in Indonesia. Indonesian women need digital media literacy skills to effectively use the Internet and to raise their quality of life. Empowering literacy abilities includes the skills of using digital media to access, search, analyze, reflect, share, and create. In this qualitative research study, founders, leaders, and participants from IWITA (Indonesian Women Information Technology Awareness) and FemaleDev (Female Developer) were interviewed because these organizations focus on developing digital literacy for women. The findings indicated that digital media literacy remains low because of inadequate education, lack of opportunities and the patriarchal system in Indonesia.
ISSN:2452-3151
DOI:10.1016/j.kjss.2016.10.004