The Enchantment of Social Media as a Child’s Resilience During Covid-19 Pandemic

The enchantment in social media as resilience for children during the Covid-19 pandemic is interesting to observe in depth. This study discusses how children respond to the use of social media in their negotiations between education and entertainment in a resilience frame during the Covid-19 pandemic. This study uses a qualitative method with a netnographic (internet-ethnographic) approach to social media and virtual space. The data were obtained through internet networks in social media. The author discusses and analyzes the phenomenon of the interrelation of social media, digital technology, IoT, post-millennial generation, and children from the point of view of enchantment and how it has implications for resilience. The data is obtained from observing social media and borrowing aspects of the survey to support the qualitative analysis, and it conducted on 100 children aged 8–11 years who were searched purposively. Then, the data processed and analyzed to determine how the enchantments in social media can become children’s resilience during the Covid-19 pandemic. The results show that social media implements presence in practice, which translates into being in a space and time simultaneously as communal resilience for children. The enchantment of social media as resilience elaborates the concept of presence about awareness and attention to a social media object simultaneously appearing together as resilience. Attendance in education, entertainment, and resilience includes three aspects: making-present, having-present, and being-present.