THE CONTRIBUTION OF SOCIAL SUPPORTS TO MEDIA LITERACY

Abstract

This study was aimed to determine the contribution of social support to media literacy on social inclusion-based village library users. Media literacy as an effort to improve skills and also people's welfare needs to be improved as an educational effort towards a prosperous society. With social inclusion-based media literacy, farmers, housewives, traders, who in fact are library users of social inclusion-based village libraries can use the internet to learn new skills, improve product quality, and sell online. This study revealed the contribution of social support in improving media literacy in social inclusion-based village libraries. This quantitative study collected 74 research subjects using a social support scale and a media literacy scale compiled by the researcher. There are 74 subjects in this study. Research subjects are library users who no longer go to school and work as farmers (35 subjects), traders (5 subjects), housewives (28 subjects), and laborers (10 subjects). Based on gender, there were 61 female subjects and 13 male subjects. The criteria for the subjects in this study included: (1) social inclusion-based village library users, (2) not working in the formal sector, (3) not pursuing education. The measurement scale in this study is arranged according to Likert scale model which consists of several favorable and unfavorable attitudes. The results revealed that the higher the social support, the higher the media literacy tends to be in social inclusion-based village library users. In this study, it is known that the effective contribution of social support with media literacy is equal to the coefficient of determination (R2) of 0.516, this means that social support is able to contribute to the media literacy variable by 51.6%, while 48.4% is explained by other variables.