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Proceedings of the First International Conference on Christian and Inter Religious Studies, ICCIRS 2019, December 11-14 2019, Manado, Indonesia

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Generation Z and the Online Gaming Community: a Study of Multicultural Education in Disruptive Era

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.11-12-2019.2302138,
        author={Jeane Marie Tulung and Febri Kurnia Manoppo and Imriani  Moroki},
        title={Generation Z and the Online Gaming Community: a Study of Multicultural Education in Disruptive Era},
        proceedings={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Christian and Inter Religious Studies, ICCIRS 2019, December 11-14 2019, Manado, Indonesia},
        publisher={EAI},
        proceedings_a={ICCIRS},
        year={2020},
        month={11},
        keywords={generation z online gaming community multicultural education disruptive era},
        doi={10.4108/eai.11-12-2019.2302138}
    }
    
  • Jeane Marie Tulung
    Febri Kurnia Manoppo
    Imriani Moroki
    Year: 2020
    Generation Z and the Online Gaming Community: a Study of Multicultural Education in Disruptive Era
    ICCIRS
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.11-12-2019.2302138
Jeane Marie Tulung1,*, Febri Kurnia Manoppo1, Imriani Moroki1
  • 1: Institut Agama Kristen Negeri Manado, Indonesia
*Contact email: jeane.tulung@iakn-manado.ac.id

Abstract

Disruption era is marked by the emergence of various forms of new innovation products which eventually interrupt the long-existed ones. It also happens in the gaming world characterized by the emergence of online gaming products. The presence of online gaming has formed a community of generation Z which consists of various backgrounds of family, religion, ethnicity, and culture. Thus, Generation Z can gather and socialize in a community and build networks with others. This study was aimed to describe how great the influence of the online gaming community was to the multicultural education of generation Z and what the related factors are. A mixed method was used in this study. The result showed that there was a significant influence between variables of the online gaming community to the multicultural education of generation Z which was caused by several factors, namely: the online gaming community influence the emergence of multicultural tolerance attitude of generation Z; online games were capable in providing an imaginative virtual space; online games created a separated social system for the users; online games as new culture; online games became the gate of entrance to understand the multicultural education, the togetherness principle in virtual space, the new learning experience, and the social narrative in multicultural perspective.

Keywords
generation z online gaming community multicultural education disruptive era
Published
2020-11-18
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EAI
http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eai.11-12-2019.2302138
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