THE USE OF NEW MEDIA HABITS FOR MUHAMMADIYAH BANTUL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS TO ACCESS RELIGIOUS INFORMATION AND DISASTER
Abstract
The new media has now entered a wide variety of life. The presence of gadgets with different brands more easily and cheaply obtained. Almost every individual has gadgets like mobile phones. Technological devices is largely now has the ability connected internet access. The use of these gadgets are not the same from one person to another, as well as the existing generation. Generation gap between parents and teens is a logical consequence in the use of communication media in everyday life. Teens today, as the digital generation, has a unique and distinctive way in consuming new media.
This study was conducted to gain an initial understanding of how new media usage behavior for students in Muhammadiyah Bantul high school, as a high school under the auspices of Muhammadiyah Organization, which is based on the Islamic values. Specifically, this study is directed to find out how high school students of Muhammadiyah Bantul accessing religious and disaster information using technological devices that use internet access. Assuming that was built as a school that is based on Islamic values will have an impact on access to religious information. Similarly, Bantul as a disaster risk area, then the students will use devices to search for disaster information. Data obtained with the distribution of questionnaires to the students. The data obtained were processed and presented in the description of the number and percentage to describe the phenomenon that occurs about the problems that are the focus of study.
The results showed that the majority of high school students of Muhammadiyah Bantul have access the internet through technology owned devices. In using these gadgets, the use of mobile phones to access information related to religion are still low. Similarly, disaster information accessed through mobile phones also showed low yield.
Keywords: information, internet, phone, religious, disaster