Abstract:
The Internet is playing a powerful role in human life. Various aspects of human life can be transformed in line with the growing of internet technology, for example the religious practice, One Day One Juz (ODOJ). ODOJ is an online program which uses WhatsApp and Blackberry Messenger as media for interaction among group members. Then, ODOJ not only has a function as a program, but also has transformed into institution and community both online and offline. Using internet, ODOJ phenomenon can be seen as a religious practice that has experienced an expansion, extension, even a change. Moreover, the presence of ODOJ also shows how media and internet have changed our daily life, especially in religious practice. In the past, religious practice especially recitation is a very sacred practice, but through media and internet, religious practice is transformed into efficient, effective, and modern way. This paper also shows ODOJ in mediatization aspect that is when society become more submissive and dependent on media in their daily life, as apparatus or institutional. Mediatization increasingly shows that human life is setting hard with media. In this case, media can change communication and interaction between people, as ODOJ that has changed religious practice from face to face into virtual way. Finally, ODOJ phenomenon on smart phone, especially in WhatsApp and Blackberry Messenger becomes a focus in this paper and because of that, this paper will analyze how religious practice like recitation that previously exists with face to face interaction has transformed into virtual interaction through media, especially internet.
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