Jurnal Sosioteknologi

A Visual Semiotic Analysis Visualization of Children's Emotions in Character Design of the Animated Film Jumbo (2025)

Budiman

An Indonesian animation is increasingly positioned not only as children’s entertainment but also as a visual communication medium that articulates cultural values. Social experiences and psychological expression. This article examines the visualization of children’s emotions in the character design of Jumbo (2025), an Indonesian animated film directed by Ryan Adriandhy. The study focuses on how character elements, body proportions, facial expressions, gestures, color, costumes, spatial composition, and interaction between characters construct emotional meaning and invite audience empathy. This research uses a qualitative approach grounded in Roland Barthes’ visual semiotic approach, positioning each selected scene within three layers of meaning: denotation, connotation, and myth. The findings indicate that the main character’s rounded body, restrained gesture, warm color accents, and repeated placement in isolated or contrasting spaces operate as signs of vulnerability, social pressure, longing for acceptance, and gradual self-reconciliation. The analysis also shows that character design functions as a non-verbal narrative device that translates children’s inner conflict into readable visual signs. This article contributes to visual communication design studies by emphasizing animation character design as a sociotechnical text where digital production, emotional literacy, and cultural imagination intersect.

Digital Subscriptions: an Islamic Legal Perspective on Automatic Renewal of Applications Among Generation Z

Elsa Silvia Nur Aulia

The rapid growth of digital subscription services has normalized auto-renewal mechanisms, particularly among Generation Z. However, this convenience often leads to passive consumption and unintentional financial deductions. This study aims to analyze the practice of auto-renewal in digital subscriptions among Gen Z from both socio-technological and Islamic legal (fiqh muamalah) perspectives. Employing a quantitative descriptive approach, data was collected from 50 Gen Z respondents in Bandung through questionnaires. The findings reveal a high subscription rate (74%), yet a significant disconnect exists: 40% of users rarely or never utilize the services they continue paying for, and 24% are unaware of active auto-renewals. From a socio-technological view, platforms exploit user inertia, leading to a "subscribe-and-forget" culture. In Islamic law, specifically within the 'aqd al-ijarah (service contract) framework, this practice raises critical issues regarding the absence of continuous ridha (mutual consent) and the presence of gharar (uncertainty). Paying for unutilized services directly violates the principle of 'adl (fairness). Interestingly, while 46% perceive the system as functionally unfair, 62% still view it as legally permissible (Halal/Mubah). The study concludes there is an urgent need for enhanced digital financial literacy and ethical, transparent subscription designs.

ANALYSIS OF HONESTY (SHIDDIQ) VALUES IN QUALITY CONTROL OF CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS BASED ON QUR’ANIC PERSPECTIVE (QS. AL-AHZAB:70; QS. AL-MUTHAFFIFIN:1–3)

Imamul Arifin

Honesty (shiddiq) is a fundamental ethical principle in Islam that governs both personal and professional behavior, including in construction engineering where quality control is essential to ensure safety, compliance, and sustainability. In practice, construction projects often face ethical issues such as material manipulation, deviations from specifications, and falsification of reports, which reduce project quality and increase the risk of structural failure. This study aims to analyze the value of honesty (shiddiq) in construction project quality control based on the Qur’anic perspective, particularly QS. Al-Ahzab:70 and QS. Al-Muthaffifin:1–3. The research employs a qualitative approach using literature review and thematic Qur’anic interpretation (tafsir maudhu’i), with primary data derived from the Qur’an and tafsir literature, and secondary data from construction management sources. The findings indicate that shiddiq

encompasses

truthfulness,

transparency, accountability, and integrity. QS. Al-Ahzab:70 emphasizes truthful communication, while QS. Al-Muthaffifin:1–3 condemns fraudulent practices, which can be interpreted as quality manipulation in construction. The integration of these values into quality control systems can enhance ethical compliance, improve project performance, and reduce risks, thereby supporting sustainable and high-quality construction outcomes

Activity-Centered Intervention Design (ACID): A Reflective Approach to Behavioral Change in Household Waste Management

Dwi Purnomo, Healthy Nirmalasari, Rivaldi Rizki Ramdani

Efforts to change household waste management behavior often fail due to overreliance on product-based solutions such as composters or biopores that are misaligned with users’ daily routines. This article introduces the Activity-Centered Intervention Design (ACID) framework, which prioritizes user activity as the focal point of behavioral intervention. Employing a critical autoethnographic approach, the study reconstructs domestic experiences in waste disposal to identify critical moments where behavioral failure typically occurs. Findings reveal that product-centric solutions frequently fall short due to their lack of ergonomic and psychological integration with household practices. ACID emphasizes the need to design interventions that target the moments of waste generation rather than solely focusing on disposal points. This framework contributes to the development of micro-scale intervention strategies that are human-centered, behaviorally informed, and contextually grounded—thereby enriching both theoretical discourse and practical approaches in behavior change and environmental sustainability

Analyzing AI Ethics in Financial Deepfake Fraud

Aditya Firman Ihsan

The misuse of generative artificial intelligence through deepfake technology has emerged as a tangible threat to Indonesia's financial sector, with recorded public losses exceeding IDR 6 trillion throughout 2024–2025. Despite growing technical and regulatory attention, systematic and replicable ethical analyses of this phenomenon remain scarce in the Indonesian scholarly literature. This article applies a structured 12-step ethical analysis framework to a case of deepfake financial fraud in Indonesia — specifically, a manipulative video misappropriating the image of President Prabowo Subianto in January 2025. The framework organises analysis into four phases: observation, normative mapping, relational context, and deliberation. Findings show that the multi-perspectival approach successfully reveals ethical complexity undetected by single-framework analyses, including distributed moral responsibility among AI developers, digital platforms, regulators, and users. Critical reflection identifies two limitations in AI contexts: difficulty mapping the partial agency of algorithms as stakeholders, and insufficient relational analysis for anonymously technology-mediated relationships. This article contributes a methodological reference for AI ethics education in Indonesian higher education and proposes two framework adaptations for AI-specific cases.