Fostering Voluntarism in Digital Age

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200320.004How to use a DOI?

Keywords

participatory digital citizenship, digital media, voluntarism, online activism, fourth industrial revolution

Abstract

This study aims to examine the efficacy of digital infrastructure developed by a global hunamitarian agency called Aksi Cepat Tanggap (Fast Action Response) in fostering participatory digital citizenship in the 4th Industrial Revolution Era. Today in Indonesia, there is a great gap between the culture of participatory citizenship and the trend of interntet behavior which show the lack of public participation especially in social and humanitarian sectors. Facing this problem, digital infrastructure is seen as potential tool for activism. This study used a qualitative approach with case study focused on Let’s ACT Indonesia social-humanitarian movement which campaigned digitally. Research participants are ACT’s caretakers, ACT’s social-humanitarian activists, and ACT’s online donors. The results show that ACT’s digital infrastructure in the form of online campaign for voluntarism has been able to fostering participatory digital citizenship model in Indonesia. This achievement was indicated by an increase in public participation such civic philantrhropy and social-humanitarian movement through the utilization of digital and online media.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Aina Nurdiyanti
AU  - Karim Suryadi
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/03/24
TI  - Fostering Voluntarism in Digital Age
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Civic Education Conference (ACEC 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 18
EP  - 25
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200320.004
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200320.004
ID  - Nurdiyanti2020
ER  -