Smartphone and Freedom of Speech on Facebook
J Jamilah, M Maskur, E Dimyati, A Maulana, P Melati
Institut Pendidikan Indonesia Garut
Abstract
This study is inspired by the increasing number of smartphone users. There are three objectives of this study, such as: to reveal the smartphone utilization, to describe students freedom of speech on social media such as facebook, to discover the impact of smartphone utilization towards students freedom of speech on facebook. The study employed descriptive method with quantitative approach. As many as 100 students out of 10 study programs were selected randomly as the sample of this study. The results of the study revealed that: Smartphone utilization among university students was not only intended for learning activity but also for non-learning activity, students freedom of speech on facebook was considered as positive aspiration, and smartphone was significantly influential on how students freedom of speech was expressed on facebook. To conclude, smartphone is a media which can be utilized by the students to express their point of view on facebook. The implication towards the findings of the study is that the government as the policy maker is expected to control and enforce Electronic Information and Transactions Law (ITE Law), in order that the freedom of speech does not violate the applicable law.
Keywords: Smartphone, Freedom of Speech, Facebook
Topic: Computer and Communication Engineering