2023. Media, Culture and Society 45 (6): 1135–1155. While the growing influence of digital platforms on social life is now widely recognized, scholars continue to grapple with the operation of digital platforms and their mediation of social life. This article examines some of Facebook’s operational logics to shed light on the company’s social imaginary. Our…
2022. Asia Review 12 (3): 451–477. Reexamining Rodrigo Duterte’s tirades against Western power blocs and the results of his diplomatic efforts to obtain Chinese and Russian assistance has never been more relevant, considering the measures his successor adopted to reinforce or reconfigure his foreign policy. To this end, the article revisits Duterte’s pivot to China and…
2022. The Cordillera Review: Journal of Philippine Culture and Society 12 (1 and 2): 69–91. Tourism, as a practice, involves a projection and performance of identity in response to what the market desires. Museums convey a message through the collection, preservation, and exhibition of tangible and intangible cultural heritage. While the coverage of the two varies,…
2021. Asia Review 11 (3): 273–304. The increasing incidence of disinformation in the Philippines promotes romanticized recollections of Ferdinand Marcos’ martial law (1972–1981). While the general scholarship remembers the era for its horrors and atrocities, narratives circulated online claim that Marcos’ rule made the nation great and that several groups and institutions conspired to distort people’s memory,…
2021. Southeast Asian Media Studies Journal 3 (2): 25–49. In the 1930s, several advertisements appealing to nationalist sentiments bore the mark of NEPA, or the National Economic Protectionism Association. NEPA was formed by Filipino business magnates who embraced Manuel L. Quezon’s call for the strengthening of the Philippine economy and its industries. For almost half…
2020. Journal of ASEAN Studies 8 (2): 129–145. Social networking sites have become increasingly relevant in the study of democracy and culture in recent years. This study explores the interconnectedness of social networks, the imposition of state control, and management of social behavior by comparing various literature on the operation of repression in Thai and…
2020. International Center for Cultural Studies (ICCS) Working Paper Series. Issues surrounding water reservoir construction and hydropower development in the Philippines provide glimpses of the marginalization of indigenous peoples (IPs). For the sake of “development,” state-sponsored mega dam projects encroach ancestral lands and ultimately threaten IPs’ existence. Hence, while Filipinos from highly urbanized cities recognize…
2019. Southeast Asian Media Studies 1 (1): 15–30. Curricula, cookbooks, and advertisements published in the early 1900s provide a means by which we can see the various ways that the Americans attempted to influence all aspects of Filipino life following their colonial agenda. How did the Americans use food and technology so foreign to Filipinos…