The Portraits of Digital Literacy Awareness Amid Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

Digital literacy is a familiar topic in this millennial era with various digital media with open access that can be used anytime and anywhere. Based on this, this study aims to describe the digital literacy awareness of a family during the Covid-19 pandemic as a phenomenon that is currently being discussed. This study uses a type of phenomenology with data collection techniques through observation and interviews. The data extracted included knowledge assembly, utilization of digital sources and media, access and hypertextual navigation, content evaluation of the research subject, namely a family of various ages. The results showed that digital literacy awareness varied greatly from the media, access patterns, and evaluations carried out by each respondent in accessing information. It can be concluded that digital literacy awareness is still not optimal according to the indicators used and still needs to be improved, especially in building critical thinking patterns and utilizing technology as part of digital literacy.