tailieunhanh - 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. | Kasetsart Journal of Social Sciences 38 2017 212e217 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Kasetsart Journal of Social Sciences journal homepage http locate kjss Empowering Indonesian women through building digital media literacy Fiona Suwana a Lily b a Queensland University of Technology Brisbane Australia b STIKOM The London School of Public Relations Jakarta Indonesia a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history There is still a gender digital divide in Indonesia. Indonesian women need digital media Received 22 March 2016 literacy skills to effectively use the Internet and to raise their quality of life. Empowering Received in revised form 29 September 2016 literacy abilities includes the skills of using digital media to access search analyze reflect Accepted 23 October 2016 share and create. In this qualitative research study founders leaders and participants Available online 24 August 2017 from IWITA Indonesian Women Information Technology Awareness and FemaleDev Female Developer were interviewed because these organizations focus on developing Keywords digital literacy for women. The findings indicated that digital media literacy remains low digital divide because of inadequate education lack of opportunities and the patriarchal system in digital media literacy Indonesia. gender digital divide 2017 Kasetsart University. Publishing services by Elsevier . This is an open access Indonesia article under the CC BY-NC-ND license http licenses by-nc-nd women s media literacy . Introduction million if the number of women using the Internet increased 600 million Intel amp Dalberg 2011 p. 12 . How- There has been a massive growth in Internet use in ever research from the McKinsey Global Institute MGI on Indonesia over the past decade. Indonesia s Ministry of financial and digital inclusion reported that billion Communication and Informatics Kementerian Komunikasi women 52 are still offline. Therefore if women had