Urgensi Literasi Digital bagi Generasi Milenial dalam Konservasi Budaya

Abstract

The digital era is marked by the shift of mechanical and analog technology to digital technology. This transfer of technology has caused the millennial generation to understand the values of cultural conservation, including the way of thinking and acting, especially for the millennial generation who must have digital literacy competencies, namely the ability to access, manage, understand, integrate, communicate, evaluate, and create information. safely and appropriately through digital literature. Digital literacy can increase individual focus and concentration. Increase individual abilities in reading, composing sentences and writing information. Digital literacy challenges Digital literacy has at least two challenges that must be faced. This challenge can be overcome by implementing digital literacy in every use of technology. The term millennials or millennials, the millennial generation, is the gadget people. In fact, Gadgets are better defined as a group of individuals who every day and every problem is solved with Gadget equipment. So the Gadget generation is meant as a generation whose life is always in contact with equipment that contains information elements. Don't know valid information or good sources, as long as it's resolved that's part of the solution taken. So, these tools have become a part of life that cannot be separated at all. Many of us still don't understand the meaning of conservation. Conservation is not just a beautiful park, green environment, or orderly vehicles. In the context of a Conservation University, the meaning of conservation is understood in a broader scope. Conservation is interpreted as an effort to protect, preserve, and use in a sustainable manner. The objects include nature, environment, and culture. So the formulation of the problem is how is digital literacy practice for the millennial generation in understanding the values of cultural conservation? What is the impact of digital literacy on the millennial generation in understanding the values of cultural conservation? In this study, using a continuous descriptive research methodology (continuity description) which has the characteristics of qualitative research. What is meant by continuity description research is descriptive research work carried out continuously on an object of research.

Keywords: Digital Literacy, Cultural Conservation.