Abstract How does the press regulate itself? Through document research, key informant interviews, and participant observation, the researcher studied how the Cebu Citizens-Press Council (CCPC) promotes media self-regulation (MSR) among the Cebu press and media literacy (ML) among citizens and netizens in Cebu, a metropolis in southern Philippines. Led by civil society leaders, the editors-in-chief of Cebu newspapers, and other media leaders,...

Abstract This paper contributes to the introductory study on the sociocultural impact of immersive technology or ImT, in the form of 360 video capture and virtual reality projection. A young technology in the field of visual language, ImT challenges the supremacy of the frame in cinematic mediums—TV, video, film—and, in effect, introduces new notions in visual grammar of the multimodality of moving images, aka the kineikonic mode of media...

Paper presented during Mindanao State University Iligan Institute Technology Department of English Research Colloquium on Social Media, (Discourse, Culture, and Language.  1-2 May 2019, MSU-IIT, Iligan City Abstract This presentation discusses how to use social media in education and conduct research about the impact of social on teaching-learning. First it presents the research on “Using Facebook as a Learning Management System in Teaching”....

Paper presented during the Asia Pacific Peace Research Association (APPRA) Conference 2019, 02-04 May 2019 Abstract Since the regime of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, labor export has been institutionalized as an important economic policy in the Philippines. While there may be contrasting views among academics and analysts as to the value of the policy, the brute fact that foreign remittances have highly supported the macroeconomic...

In the following viewpoint, Belinda F. Espiritu cites predominantly negative media portrayals of Islam and Muslims as a key factor in the rise of Islamophobia, or the fear of Islam. The author agrees with the Muslim writers who stress the need for Christians and Muslims and particularly Sufi Muslims, to unite in a common mission to bear witness the shared values, Espiritu (PhD) is an associate professor of communication at the University of the...

Published review about the exhibit Ribbon cutting for the opening of the exhibit Poetry reading of “being women” during the opening ceremonies