Strengthening Digital Communication in the Era of the COVID-19 Pandemic and its Implementation in Indonesian Society

Abstract

In a pandemic situation since March 2020, everyone has to do all activities at home or stay at home, starting from work, study, literacy, and others. In fact, mobility is now increasingly limited, and this makes people unable to travel arbitrarily. This has an impact on the way people live, such as with the economy, health, and education. Now that technology is here to make it easier for Indonesian people to be literate, we don't need to go out to go to the offline library, just sit back and relax at home. In Indonesia, digital literacy was initiated by the Ministry of Education and Culture under Muhadjir Effendy in 2017 to counter hoaxes, but digital literacy has begun to be felt by the benefits since the pandemic rocked the world. But there are still those who are ignorant or don't even know what to pay attention to in digital literacy. This paper would like to discuss about how to strengthen digital communication in the era of the covid 19 pandemic and its implementation in Indonesian society. The purpose of this study is to describe the strengthening of digital literacy, its development, and its implementation in Indonesian society. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative with a literature study approach. The results of the study show that there are various elements in digital literacy, namely cultural, cognitive, constructive, communicative, confident, creative, critical, and responsible. In addition, through photo-visual literacy, reproductive literacy, branched literacy, information literacy, emotional social literacy, and real-time thinking literacy. Keywords: pandemic, digital literacy, millennial generation, challenges, stay at home.