Research Article
Virtual Congregation: Intensity of Watching YouTube on Religious Understanding during Covid-19
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.11-10-2021.2319483, author={Ridho Syabibi and Ihsan Rahmat and Rini Fitria and Armin Tedy and Harum Soniago}, title={Virtual Congregation: Intensity of Watching YouTube on Religious Understanding during Covid-19}, proceedings={Proceedings of the 6th Batusangkar International Conference, BIC 2021, 11 - 12 October, 2021, Batusangkar-West Sumatra, Indonesia}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={BIC}, year={2022}, month={8}, keywords={religious understanding; youtube; social media; covid-19}, doi={10.4108/eai.11-10-2021.2319483} }- Ridho Syabibi
Ihsan Rahmat
Rini Fitria
Armin Tedy
Harum Soniago
Year: 2022
Virtual Congregation: Intensity of Watching YouTube on Religious Understanding during Covid-19
BIC
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.11-10-2021.2319483
Abstract
Social media is not only a means of entertainment but also an increase in religious knowledge. The phenomenon of staying at home, working from home, and lockdown as a direct impact of Covid-19 has given a lot of free time to surf in cyberspace. This paper hypothesized that the intensity of watching YouTube during the Covid-19 period affected students' religious understanding with an Islamic education background. The test was conducted on 42 students living in the State Islamic University of Fatmawati Sukarno Bengkulu dormitory. There is a positive influence between the variable intensity of YouTube users on religious understanding with a significance of 0.001. The value of R Square (R) of the two research variables that have been tested is 0.232. Thus, the variable intensity of YouTube users affects the variable of religious understanding by 23.2%, while other variables outside this study influence the remaining 76.8%. In the future, it is necessary to test the influence of similar platforms that are more attractive to millennials in the future.