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Kajian Dalam Bidang Ilmu Perpustakaan dan Informasi: Filosofi, Teori, dan Praktik

humanitarian issue. Wherein it contains oriented communication to “amar
ma’ruf” (humanization), “nahi munkar” (liberation), and “tu>minu billahi”
(transcendence).
Humanization (amr ma>ruf) is something that involves a dynamic
society. That is a fixed value of goodness; but in practice, it’s adapted to
the context of perfection in society. Having the values of liberation (nahi
munkar) is leaving something that is hated or rejected by society. Therefore,
the call of good deeds does not deserve in the wrong way. Conversely, the
prohibition of something wrong must be ethical with the norms prevailing
in the society. However, the responsibility for upholding these values of
humanization and liberation must be ideal within the framework of faith in
God. Both tasks are two-sided inseparable from transcendence (tu>minu
billahi)(Kuntowijoyo, 2007; Syahputra, 2007).
Based on the description, prophetic communication is an ideal
communication model for Muslim communities. As the largest Muslim
community in the world, Indonesia has the number of Islamic universities.
The numbers, which is about 6.000, is the highest in the world (Sasongko,
2015). One of them is UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta. Since its founding in
1957, the role of UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta has been very significant
in advancing the Muslim community (Rosyada 2016). As a leading Islamic
university in Indonesia, UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta has lecturers with
the educational background of “pesantren” or Islamic boarding school.
This educational background makes them more familiar with prophetic
and ethics issues, especially in providing a model for social order to use
communication media. In fact, too easy in the process of communication
through the ICT advancement, having less control of ethics, psychology,
science, social, or political is unavoidable. Tubbs and Moss (2005) define
that mediated communication has the potential data sensed more limited
recipient, and the receiver has inadequate control of his sources. The
sample is a case of the persistence of the spread of fake news (hoaxes) in
the electronic communications network. Revealing by UGM sociologist,
Widhyharto (in Sihaloho, M. J. 2016), that the phenomenon of hoaxes is
unstoppable. Based on the wishes of the people who tend to the euphoria of
modern technology, even educated people, they utilize intentionality their
knowledge to produce not valid additional information.
For the academic members that knew and accustomed to employ
digital devices easily, the problem was not occurred by the digital divide
in accessing to information infrastructure (such as internet access via a
smartphone). However, this is more likely to be viewed as different digital
divide due to the low level of e-literacy, which has been defined by Martin

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