A5026634892- Digital Economy and Work Transformation
- Social Media and Politics
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Asian Culture and Media Studies
- Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
- Media Studies and Communication
- Philippine History and Culture
- Sharing Economy and Platforms
- Labor Movements and Unions
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- ICT in Developing Communities
- E-Government and Public Services
- Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
- Media, Religion, Digital Communication
- Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
- ICT Impact and Policies
- Taxation and Compliance Studies
- Public Relations and Crisis Communication
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
- Sex work and related issues
- HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Cultural Industries and Urban Development
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
De La Salle University
2016-2025
University of Amsterdam
2022
The University of Melbourne
2022
University of Nottingham
2022
RMIT University
2022
Goethe University Frankfurt
2022
Chinese University of Hong Kong
2022
Tokyo University of the Arts
2022
La Salle University
2016
National University of Singapore
2011-2013
The article examines the role of social media groups for online freelance workers in Philippines—digital obtaining “gigs” from labor platforms such as Upwork and Onlinejobs.ph—for facilitation collective organizing. first problematizes marginality context platform situated middle competing narratives precarity opportunity. We then examine unique forms solidarity emerging formed by these geographically spread digital workers. Drawing participant observation Facebook groups, well interviews...
Abstract The open science (OS) movement has advocated for increased transparency in certain aspects of research. Communication is taking its first steps toward OS as some journals have adopted guidelines codified by another discipline. We find this pursuit troubling prioritizes openness while insufficiently addressing essential ethical principles: respect persons, beneficence, and justice. Some recommended practices increase the potential harm marginalized participants, communities,...
While bullying on social media among the youth remains a public health problem, there is little that we know about ways of dealing with by disconnection. In this article, build upon concepts disconnective practice (Light, 2014) and visibility (Brighenti, 2007) to explain into which deal media. We draw evidence from in-depth interviews 152 across Philippines. First, find continuum acts involves disconnecting people messages anchored temporality. Second, both condition for process practice....
Abstract Applying the ‘Rural Livelihoods’ framework of analysis, this study explores link between information and communication technologies (ICTs) rural poverty reduction by analyzing role community telecenters in enhancing livelihood strategies poor households. The argues that interventions play a facilitating an increase poor's assets resources facilitate diversified livelihoods have potential for reducing poverty. Using set up United Nations Development Program (UNDP) China Ministry...
Abstract Hegemonic Open Science, emergent from the circuits of knowledge production in Global North and serving economic interests platform capitalism, systematically erase voices subaltern margins South Southern inhabiting North. Framed within an overarching emancipatory narrative creating access for empowering through data exchanged on global free market, hegemonic Science processes co-opt epistemologies, working to create reproduce new enclosures extraction that serve...
Building on scholarly explorations of the nuances labor conditions in emerging knowledge economies Global South and glocalization digital market, this paper examines how coworking spaces Philippines are designed organized. In particular, we explore role that these alternative workspaces take addressing unique needs local platform workers or online freelancers. The ranks third, after United States India, among countries with greatest number Drawing from a multi-sited ethnography Metro Manila,...
This study explores the nature and promise of citizen engagement in Twitter during calamities, specifically context typhoon Yolanda. Through topic modeling content analysis, article "acts civic engagement" expressed disaster tweets how character changed over a five-month period. The adopts actualizing citizenship model which offers an alternative understanding as performative is relevant for analysis social media by citizens. concludes with reflection typology Twitter-mediated communication...
The internet has opened up a space for discussions of queer sexuality and the interconnectivity made possible by technologies enables active exchange ideologies across distant spaces that facilitate formation ‘queer counterpublics’. But how do cyberqueer movements form collectivity amid instability individual collective identities vulnerabilities controls posed new technology mediation? Through case study Ladlad, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) political party in Philippines, this...
Journal Article The Virgin Mary With a Mobile Phone: Ideologies of Mothering and Technology Consumption in Philippine Television Advertisements Get access Cheryll Ruth R. Soriano, Soriano 1Department Communication, De La Salle University, Manila, 1004, Philippines Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sun Lim, Lim 2Department Communications New Media, Faculty Arts & Social Sciences, National University Singapore, Singapore 117416, Milagros Rivera-Sanchez...
This paper re-examines YouTube as a site of feminine, networked, and intimate sociality among Filipino women online. We unpack this by identifying how commenters on engage with the performativity an relationship between Filipina her foreign husband YouTube. Extending Mina Roces' concept 'local sisterhood' in digital context, we coin term 'online to articulate diverse ways through which interracial intimacies realm online communication. By conducting thematic analysis comments popular channel...
Abstract In this introductory section of the special issue titled “Beyond Tropicalization Concepts: Theorizing Digital Realities With and From Global South,” editors present a critical examination unquestioned adoption theoretical frameworks from dominant regions power knowledge in context South. This process, referred to as “tropicalization concepts,” is scrutinized for its consequences, which include unequal significance concepts, naturalization certain realities, one-sided flow ideas,...
This article analyzes the transmedia strategies of three ethnic minority activist organizations in Philippines: Cordillera Peoples Alliance, Tebtebba, and Moro Islamic Liberation Front. The fieldwork entailed interviews with leaders these their media teams, scholars who study movements, social commentators. analysis shows complexities identity construction age spreadable importance literacy for activists have to navigate effectively advance cause.
This article interrogates political brokerage on YouTube by examining the platform’s role in construction of discourses and configuring action a new genre actors advancing agenda through historical revisionism. Using assemblage theory drawing from technography, we propose concept “networked brokerage” to characterize mutually affirming relationship YouTube’s governance mechanisms alternative influencers’ microcelebrity practices building, complementing, magnifying revisionist narratives...
This article examines and theorises the relationships across three distinct forms of labour brokerage emerging in digital platform economy: intermediation, ‘skill-making’, ‘re-outsourcing’. Drawing from a 4-year ethnography on online freelancing Philippines, one largest supplying countries globally, I pay special attention to how control emerges as process that is constituted at multiple scales between global capital, local community, family units, organised networks workers influencers...
Abstract Drawing from experience of platform labor in one the largest supplying countries, Philippines, paper demonstrates role an emerging category – that digital influencers who promote viability locally amid its precarious and ambiguous conditions. Through participant observation Facebook groups, analysis YouTube channels videos, interviews with workers, we present insights into interventions these use, anchoring their strategies on what call performing “digital bayanihan”:...
Purpose This longitudinal study aims to analyze the use of websites by a sample 78 corporations and non‐profits five years apart. In particular, it studies organizational interactive social media features web sites for building relationships with six stakeholder publics. Design/methodology/approach The authors studied for‐profit not‐for‐profit organization seeking learn how they used this new medium as communication tool build maintain key stakeholders: mass media, consumers,...
Abstract This article interrogates platform governance and accountability amid the growing role of influencers in constructing political discourses, particularly, intermediation anti‐media ideological frames through their embeddedness networked assemblages. We deploy concept “networked brokerage” to examine sociotechnical relations among influencers, platform, its users, how this dynamic assemblage engages populism. The study draws from a critical examination network discursive tactics...
This article examines how privacy is understood, lived, and negotiated by youth users of information communication technology (ICT) in slum communities the Philippines. In context shared public access arrangements prevalent many low-income Global South, discusses intersections space, technology, sharing economy underlying socio-technical practice that shape notions. It argues for rethinking ICT development policy discourse to integrate experiences from settings.