Al-Quran Digitalization: Adolescent View on the Value of the Digital Al-Quran Application

This study analyses and explains the boundaries between sacred profane in digital Al-Quran applications contained smartphones. research uses an ethnographic approach. The subjects were Muslim teenagers who use applications. results showed a difference treatment of using with form manuscripts. existence makes its value disappear due to rites, ethics prohibitions attached it. In addition, some bring up advertisements notifications that interfere user's focus on reading them. development convergence media have made secular values into finally eliminated itself loss rituals Al-Quran. this indicate novelty, namely youth simplify compared manuscripts considered more as God's revelation. shows modernisation has also bulldozed religious institutions. So, criticises theory Emil Durkheim Antony Giddens regarding contexts. Novelty research, So Keywords: Digital Al-Quran, profane, rite, sacred, tradition.