Research Article
Social Media Usage versus Folklore to Tell Moral Value for Young Generation
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.8-12-2018.2283897, author={A D Anggraeni and H J Pentury and A Nurfarkhana and D Pratama}, title={Social Media Usage versus Folklore to Tell Moral Value for Young Generation}, proceedings={Proceedings of 1st Workshop on Environmental Science, Society, and Technology, WESTECH 2018, December 8th, 2018, Medan, Indonesia}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={WESTECH}, year={2019}, month={6}, keywords={folklore social media moral values}, doi={10.4108/eai.8-12-2018.2283897} }- A D Anggraeni
H J Pentury
A Nurfarkhana
D Pratama
Year: 2019
Social Media Usage versus Folklore to Tell Moral Value for Young Generation
WESTECH
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.8-12-2018.2283897
Abstract
Social media touch the ethic folklore as a pedagogical tool to deliver the moral value messages to young generation is an inspiring issue to study. This study aims to analyze the contrast between the traditional folklore versus modern media social as pedagogical and communication tools using for a young generation. Folklore, an amazing traditional tool to teach and deliver moral messages to the young generation is changeable by a creative modern communication tool, social media. Drawing on deep experiences and expertise, we compare both media by study the literature to analyze the contrast between them. The method that is used in this study is a qualitative descriptive. The descriptions to show the contrast between using folklore and social media, and also implied the significant current trend between folklore touch and social media touch for the young generation. The result also shows that social media, finding resources and folklore were creative ways to deliver the messages for the young generation. As a pedagogical and communication tools, both social media and folklore allowed multiple literacies. The contrast between them expressed the ideas that both the tools of social media and folklore can create and encourage collaborative learning and mutual support to deliver moral value for the young generation.