%A - Sigit Purnama %A - Maulidya Ulfah %A - Imam Machali %A - Agus Wibowo %A - Bagus Shandy Narmaditya %J Heliyon %T Does digital literacy influence students’ online risk? Evidence from Covid-19 %X The adoption of online-based learning and the internet has had both a positive impact on students. This study aims to understand how digital literacy, parental mediation, and self-control affects online risk during the Covid- 19 pandemic in Indonesia. This paper elaborated a quantitative method with SEM-PLS to raise the comprehension of the phenomenon studied. A questionnaire was voluntarily responded to approximately 300 elementary school students who engaged in online-based learning. The structural equation modeling estimation indicates that digital literacy, parental mediation, and self-control influences online risk. However, parental mediation failed in pro�moting students' self-control. These findings suggest that both digital literacy and parental mediation needs to be penetrated to reduce the impact of online risk in the teaching and learning process. This is the first step for schools and parents’ alertness in assisting and considering the appropriate and safe media using technology %K Digital literacy Parental mediation self-control Online risk %P 1-6 %V 7 %D 2021 %I Elsevier Ltd. %L digilib43137