The engagement between young generation and social media in Indonesia is crystal clear. On the one hand, politicians are aware that social media is an efficient and effective medium for interacting with society. It can be seen that, there's open chance for politician to embrace social media as their medium to interact with "youthizen" (youth netizen). This research aimed to describe the role of social media in building the political consciousness of the young generation. By using mixed methods (survey for quantitave method and depth interview for qualitative method) to high school students and those who influence their social media habit. The result showed that youthizen have strong engagement with social media but low political awareness. They're even disaggree to the usage of social media for their own political personal opinion. It also showed that they're vulnerable in facing social media hoax. Those situations might put them as targets by dirty political intension.

In real life we often took identity as something given. Social media gave users the opportunity to present themselves as they wished. Social media gave chances to people to choose the kind of person they wished to be in social medai. People could then construct their identity the same as or different from their true selves in the real world.This study aimed to identify and understand the self-presentation of social media users in the construction of identity in social media and identity in real life. The study was conducted through the methods of phenomenology and avatar research. Data was gathered by by in-depth interviews and observations in informants social media accounts.The results showed several findings, namely: construction of identity in social media take the positive part of identity in the real world, informants consistently set a certain image in the social media in match to their expectations, social media became a mean of users personal branding. Informants also divided into two categories: first, the group that consistently maintain the image they were trying to build. second, groups that occasionally appeared different from the image they wanted to construct.

Covid-19 pandemic forces everyone in the world to change lifestyle dramatically, including our education system. Teachers, parents, and students in kindergarten are required to do teaching and learning activities from and at home for quite a long period. Children in kindergarten who are ideally very limited in their gadget consumption now have more access to gadgets due to parents' burden in running the house and working from home. As the teacher also become parents, they face a double burden in teaching someone else's children and children of their own. This research is the result of our community service activity to the teachers of kindergarten in Semarang by online meetings via group WhatsApp and zoom. It is aimed to evaluate the shift of understanding and attitude of the teachers regarding the use of gadgets and the learn from home activities before and after treatment. The treatment was intended to change the understanding and attitude of the teachers to be more positive in assisting and facilitating the kindergarten students to learn from home.

This study aims to investigate the differences in attitudes of young generation in showing their political expression on social media before and after the socialization in community service. The issue is related to the attitude of young generation in using social media as a means of expres-sion. Meanwhile, we realize that the internet can often be misleading with the abundance of in-formation and hoaxes. It requires the user’s ability to choose and filter the correct and useful information. As the generation that dominates social media and the internet, Generation Z is al-so a target of politicians and political issues on the internet. Therefore, political literacy for young generation in the internet is crucial. The data in this research were collected by quantita-tive descriptive methods through surveys before and after the socialization of social media and politics. The survey was conducted on 100 high school students in Semarang City. The results showed that the program for political literacy socialization increased the political literacy of the high school students by providing a positive knowledge regarding politics. The results showed that the program increased the high school students’ political literacy and attitude towards the use of social media for political expression.