Buku ini membahas salah satu komunitas virtual muslimah di Indonesia yang menjadi pionir dalam menginisiasi gerakan dakwah visual melalui karya-karya ilustrasi. Melalui buku ini diharapkan dapat memberikan wacana baru tentang peran karya gambar ilustrasi yang dihasilkan oleh komunitas virtual sebagai media dakwah di era digital.
Dr. Rahina Nugrahani is lecturer of Visual Communication Design at Universitas Negeri Semarang (UNNES), Indonesia since 2006. Rahina holds BA in Visual Communication Design from Universitas Negeri Malang, Master’s Degree in Design from Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) and Doctoral’s Degree in Arts Education from Universitas Negeri Semarang.
She has taught at undergraduate and graduate levels in Visual Arts Department and also a former Study Program Coordinator of Visual Communication Design (2012-2019). Rahina is an active member of Asosiasi Profesional Desain Komunikasi Visual Indonesia (AIDIA) since 2015 and Asosiasi Prodi (ASPRODI) DKV Indonesia since 2019. Rahina’s recent research explores visual communication learning in virtual communities, and visual expressions of illustration artworks in social media, largely through qualitative case studies and virtual ethnographic methods. Her previous researches focused in visual communication media, visual branding, and visual learning media. She writes more than 30 articles published in national and international journals throughout her career as an academic. She won several national-level research grants.