The Search For Islamic Studies Information Through Smartphones By Visual Impairments Disability

This study will find out the pattern of information retrieval about Islamic studies carried out by visual impairments people. This study uses a case study method. Respondents in this study were Muslim women with disabilities in the rehabilitation complex of the blind Wiyataguna, Bandung. The results showed that people with visual impairments used narrative sounds on their mobile phones to capture narrative voice abilities that were arranged at high speed. At first they used standard speed settings, but when the skill of capturing audio through the sense of hearing increased, they set the pace of the narrative to be very fast, so that other people had difficulty listening to it.


Introduction
There are many studies that examine the relationship between using smartphones and teenagers, among others: the use of smartphones that have cognitive functions1, the use of smartphones that have a significant influence on communication behavior2, the pathological impact of smartphone use3, and adolescent self-concept in connection with smartphone usage4.
There have been many studies conducted on the relationship between blind people with the use of smartphone technology, among others: the use of various tools and special applications based on smartphones for the people with visually impaired5, using the google glass6, and using the addition of tools through the sense of touch and hearing7, through the use of smartphones in overcoming visual limitations of the people with visually impaired8, to the use of smartphones in helping the learning process9.
In essence, these researches are research that examines the problems of contemporary communication related to the phenomenon of the development of information technology, which impacts on human social life, including the life of a group of individuals who experience obstacles in the ability of vision.On the other hand, the sense of sight is an important sensory which is required in using a smartphone that was initially designed to accommodate the needs of people without disability to communicate.Fortunately, today the development of communication technology has begun to make efforts to accommodate the needs of people who have unique characteristics, such as the blind.
Unlike people who can see who have more freedom to come to attend religious forums that present information to fill their spiritually, the opportunity for people with visual impairment to perform activities is not as wide as people due to visual limitations, mobility, and blind accessibility are also restricted if they want to attend religious studies, especially if the location of the study is remote, crowded, or held at the time after the dawn or evening, where public transport has not or is no longer available.
Therefore, this is where the role of smartphones, whose presence replaces face-to-face meetings without reducing the value of information they got.Blind people with disabilities can access information on Islamic studies through their smartphone, because with the help of sufficient quota or wifi network then the information, either in the form of text, audio, and audiovisual can be accessed and information of Islamic studies can be consumed easily through several alternative applications.
There is an interesting phenomenon to be observed in relation to the search for information on Islamic studies by people with disabilities because the habit of accessing religious information forms a separate information search pattern among people with visual impairment, which distinguishes the pattern of information seeking by awareness, especially Muslim women.If in the phenomenon of pilgrims who are not visually impaired, sometimes the physical appearance of ustadz or da'i become one attraction for them to continue to follow face-to-face study to access studies through smartphones.This differs from the blind worshipers because they cannot see the look of ustadz, or physically, because of their limited visual senses.
The research related to the use of smartphones and other Internet-based technology tools, with the aim to disseminate and enhance religious values, has been studied in connection a new style of Islamic da'wah10, and the use of technology as a propagation tool.11 Nonetheless, people with visual impairment also have a special search pattern relating to the needs of cognition and affection of spiritual splendor.Therefore, this study aims to examine the pattern of information search about Islamic studies through smartphones by visually impaired people.
There are several studies that examine the topics that come into contact with the current study, but the studies use different types of studies, such as the correlation test between the use of smartphones with learning achievement12, personality disorders associated with selfie13, the test of influence on social development for early childhood,14 explorative study of the student's awareness of smartphone usage15, influence on teenage association pattern16, or interpretive methods of health information searching17, accessibility to the information18, and accessibility of persons disability in information technology19.The research uses descriptive case study method.
The case itself relates to the pattern of information search about Islamic studies conducted by some Muslim women who live in the PSBN Wiyataguna Bandung, which is a special rehabilitation site for the blind.There are a number of informants selected purposively, i.e.Muslimah who actively follow the study and have a high intensity in accessing Islamic studies through smartphones.

Results And Discussions
Based on the results of data collection got from the field it knows it the interest of Muslimah with visual impairment to access information about Islamic studies is inseparable from the conditions and habits within the family and the influence of the peer group as a social friend.This interest in information on Islamic studies encourages them to have the motive of seeking information by first learning how to access the information through a smartphone.
Some Muslim women state that a strong family environment with Islamic values is the foundation for them to always feel the need to learn Islam as a whole.This religious family environment also encourages them to follow religious studies, to meet and gather with fellow blind persons with similar interests.Friendship in the same spirit begins with a meeting in the same study event, or in a conversation, they consider that under the values held.It terms this with the terminology of a friend of the scholars.This confirms the opinion that the Family is the smallest unit of society, which serves as the first education for the child20.The results of the interview can be cited as follows: "I come from a big family that has a boarding school, so since childhood, we used to study the science of religion.
Especially I do feel the need to get closer to religion, so when in the dormitory or in the school environment I usually look for friends who also have an interest in the science of religion," As for the ability and skills of accessing information via smartphone, supported by the initial ability before experiencing blindness, or results from learning from fellow people with disabilities who have been adept at using the smartphone.Proficiency in using the smartphone in terms of completeness of special supporting applications for the blind on the gadget, or the ability to move your finger on the touchscreen smartphone, to capture the ability of narrative sound which is set with high speed.As following disclosed by ASR: "I just experienced total blindness when I was 21, because previously although since childhood there are symptoms of blindness, I can still see, and also after experiencing blindness, I was operated and could see again, but eventually remain totally blind ... before the total blind, I had time to use the phone, had also used the android phone, so I was already accustomed to using the mobile phone," People with visual impairment were visualized using a smartphone with narrative speed settings at the normal or standard speeds.But as their skills increase to capture audio through the sense of hearing, they set the pace of narration faster, so that if the people listening to the narration come from the smartphones belonging to the people with the visual impairment will feel that the narration played by their smartphone is difficult to follow because it is so quick, more like the sound of a duck.
"I experienced blindness as an adult, and gradually, so the process of my adaptation to a special application for the blind was longer than the friends who are from the beginning know the phone is in a state of blind, so their ability in operationalizing mobile phones and listen to the voice from talkback or screen reader which is set at high speed is more sophisticated because they are familiar with the setting, although the sound is set faster, than for ordinary people the sound that sounds will sound like a duck," Meanwhile, the search pattern of da'wah content through smartphone conducted by Muslimah with visual impairment comprising several types, namely: searching for da'wah content with audio file types, searching for da'wah content based on certain da'i, and searching for da'wah content based on topics to be known or studied.That is, modernization has also penetrated the world of da'wah21 Next, will appear two types of effects generated namely the understanding after deepening the information and not yet understand the full information.There is confusion within the visual impairment Muslim in accessing information, especially if it is related to fiqh so that sometimes they feel that the information presented by Ustadz A is different from Ustadz B. This condition will stimulate the desire to get clarity.In order to obtain the clarity, resource persons tended to take steps, among others: to ask about the clarity of the information in ustadz/ ustadzah in the face-to-face study, for example in the mosque or in a recitation event in PSBN environment.Another step is to ask directly to da'i through question-and-answer facilities with site manager admin although not all questions responded quickly and satisfactorily by the admin.Any other step is to discuss with colleagues, families or parties they consider that being enlightening.One of the data that reinforces these findings, recorded in the following interviews: "Sometimes I am often confused because now there is a lot of understanding or madhhab, there is a tight understanding and some are loose, maybe this includes khilafiyah, but I usually like to ask directly to the ustadz that I follow his ideology, to be clear and there is no doubt" The result, after doing some of these steps, there is some source person who feels to be more understanding and get clarity, but some are actually even more confused.Not infrequently also the confusion that is felt due to the difference of opinion from da'i which their Islam study accessed through various applications in the smartphone that even raises skepticism in source person, so the intensity of information retrieval of Islamic studies that they do not as intense as before.
On the contrary, until then came the desire to share knowledge and Islamic values through verbal and nonverbal communication to people who are in the immediate environment.This is also the starting point for Muslimah with visual impairment became interested in accessing information about Islamic studies through smartphones.The scheme can be described as follows: In principle, da'wah requires the ability to dig and encourage the audience to awaken awareness to meet the demands of religion22.Therefore, the phenomenon of the use of media as a means of preaching is now increasing and evolving along with the acceleration of the development of communication technology23.There is a statement that "the media as a propaganda medium has an economic motif while the preacher as a speaker needs a medium that can deliver his da'wah mission"24.This means that the smartphone as a medium is expected to be able to bridge the needs between da'i as the communicators and jamaah as the communicant.This is in accordance with the acknowledgment of the informant stating that: "Alhamdulillah, nowadays to study the knowledge of religion is not always to be sought in school or boarding school, or study in mosque only.Nowadays with the spread of knowledge and da'wah through the mobile media, it helps us, especially for me in searching for religious knowledge ... I can not imagine if every week I have to take a study at a certain mosque away from home, ride public transport, so I occasionally take part in the study, only when there is a chance" As in a research, the result stated that da'wah media; as a communication channel can be a mosque, school, reception, mobile phone, free speech, mass media and social media (internet, facebook, twitter, foursquare, LinkedIn, and BB)25.Through these statements can be seen that social media that can be accessed through smartphones can be used as a medium of da'wah and share information about Islamic studies.This is in line with the statement that "social media has become crucial platforms for information exchange, where people with disabilities can easily acquire information and interact with26, similar results were obtained from the studies that have the locus in China27.The use of smartphone media by people with visually impaired was not only intended to seek information, they even also use it to disseminate information.
"If there is good info, sometimes I also share it to WA or FB group, so I can also share my religious knowledge with friends or the friends in my friend list, it can be quite a good reward to spread goodness to other people" As for the use of social media which is widely used, refers to the results of the study, showing data that: The most common social media platforms were Facebook (76%), Twitter (18%), LinkedIn (16%), Blogs (12%), Google+ (4%), and other (14%).Youtube was mentioned by 50% of participants as well28.All the Muslimah with the visual impairment who are the resource persons in this study also have Facebook accounts, although some are active and less active in using them, as there is a tendency in this research that if they are active in a particular social media platform, it will be less active in other social media platforms.But essentially, resource persons are accustomed to using social media platforms to seek information or build an interaction with other parties.
However, although respondents have been able to use this platform, there are still some barriers, including social factors, limited English skills and limited access to computing devices29.This condition, some can be overcome with the applications that help and facilitate people with visual disabilities to remain able to use their smartphones optimally in accessing information.These applications include the TalkBack application that is used to provide ease to the visually impaired by using an Android smartphone that on average almost all android phones using touchscreen technology30.Furthermore, there are individuals and institutions that develop portable Braille devices that will allow individuals with visual impairments to read electronic documents by moving Braille text with fingers31.
Another helper application is PictureSensation which comes with a user interface that can guide swipe-based movements to allow self-use by blind users32.There are also applications that can turn graphics on the screen into hand-readable graphics 33, as well as software capable of translating natural languages, including Arabic and English, into the Braille System and vice versa.The Braille system is the most widely used system for non-visual34.These latest applications make it easier for people with visual impairment to still have a chance to access information on Islamic studies.
In fact, today, mass media is the most important element of globalization35.Through the internet, da'wah activities can be done by spreading Islamic information to millions of people around the world.If the internet is used for da'wah, then the target of da'wah (mad'u) can be millions of individuals connected by computer networks36, essentially, technology can be used for the benefit of da'wah37.The technological superiority of today's media industry should be used maximally in Islamic da'wah activities either by Islamic organizations, Islamic studies groups existing in society38.Therefore, to meet the needs of communicators and communicants in sharing information Islamic studies, then use of various platforms based on the Internet should be optimized.

Conclusion
People with visual impairments use narrative sounds on cellphones to capture narrative sound abilities that are arranged at high speed.They were visualized at first using smartphones initially using standard speed settings, but when the skill of capturing audio through the hearing senses increases, they regulate the pace of narration very quickly, so that other people find it difficult to listen.
Smartphone gadgets have a high level of relationship in an effort to increase the value of religiosity in a person, in this case, to study religion deeply, because at this time all kinds of information can be searched through Smartphone with support from other applications39.In addition, there are also researched results that mention that the positive impact of the perceived Internet is easy to communicate and get information fast and useful for the implementation of worship including prayer itself as articles about the science of the prayer procedure40.This means that the use of smartphones to access information of Islamic studies is already perceived by smartphone users, in this case including the Muslimah with the visual impairment who became the resource person in research, as stated by Asri as one of the resource persons who revealed that:"the search of da'wah material through mobile phone, allow me to spend time positively, as well as gain knowledge and useful knowledge, hopefully, can increase faith and improve my morals and behavior in the future".

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Figure 1.Model of The Search For Islamic Studies Information Through Smartphones By Visual Impairments Disability