PlaridelPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.52518/2022-12nvlta
Razel Andrea D. Navalta
{"title":"Sis, mamsh, kasodan: Belonging and solidarity on Facebook groups among Filipino women migrants in Japan","authors":"Razel Andrea D. Navalta","doi":"10.52518/2022-12nvlta","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52518/2022-12nvlta","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores how Filipino women migrants in Japan have appropriated Facebook to create alternative spaces and connections for addressing their needs and concerns. Using thematic analysis of discussion threads and in-depth interviews with members of the Facebook group, Pinoy Tambayan in Japan, this study shows the nuanced aspects of the gendered dimension of online ethnic enclaves on Facebook. Facebook has allowed these migrants to create online ethnic enclaves that function as an alternative to kinship and community groups—groups that Filipinos consider an invaluable resource for managing families and strengthening ties to their identity. This social, intimate tie is epitomized in terms of endearment used by members: sis (sister), mamsh (fellow godmother), and kasodan (fellow seekers of information). These terms invoke relational ties, not by blood but by shared commonalities, between the author and group members. However, while online ethnic enclaves have become an increasingly vital source of support among Filipino women migrants, the limits of these online communicative spaces can be observed, particularly in terms of visibility. In mainstream media and the wider host society, the intimate gendered narratives of Filipino women migrants are rarely discussed, and consequently, these women are misrecognized and stigmatized.","PeriodicalId":40520,"journal":{"name":"Plaridel","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85413960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PlaridelPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.52518/2022-01mnlpz
Emerald Manlapaz
{"title":"Home is (w)Here?: Movement and longing in Miko Revereza’s cinema","authors":"Emerald Manlapaz","doi":"10.52518/2022-01mnlpz","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52518/2022-01mnlpz","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40520,"journal":{"name":"Plaridel","volume":"64 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72612546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PlaridelPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.52518/2022-10andrd
Michael Francis C. Andrada
{"title":"Dali-dali at dekonstruksyon: Poetika at politika sa panahon ng pinagmamadaling pagtula","authors":"Michael Francis C. Andrada","doi":"10.52518/2022-10andrd","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52518/2022-10andrd","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper studies the digital modes of producing and distributing Philippine poetry during the presidencies of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Benigno Aquino III, and Rodrigo Duterte. The corpus used for this study are various poems created and dispensed through online generators, single message service (SMS) or text messaging, and social media, Twitter in particular. Democratic access to these new technologies has given literary producers newer platforms to exercise creativity and to interrogate the times. Poetry production via digital platforms is both an exploration of the genre and of political praxis. This paper studies select digital poems traversing what Leonardo Dianzon expounded as the cultural traditions of panunudyo (parody) and panunuya (irony or sarcasm). Further, this paper explores how poets in this digital age have variably contributed to the literary continuum and protest tradition of the Propaganda Movement’s Marcelo H. Del Pilar.","PeriodicalId":40520,"journal":{"name":"Plaridel","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81165526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PlaridelPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.52518/2022-09mshasu
Andika Hendra Mustaqim, Ibnu Hamad, K. Suryadi
{"title":"The digital fetishism challenge of Indonesian millennial journalists","authors":"Andika Hendra Mustaqim, Ibnu Hamad, K. Suryadi","doi":"10.52518/2022-09mshasu","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52518/2022-09mshasu","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to analyze the journalism and digital media practice that resulted in the digital fetishism trend in Indonesian millennial journalists before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. This research adopts the qualitative approach by a case study with in-depth interviews with eight journalists from reputable print and online media and participatory observations which focus on eight journalists’ social media accounts. This research finds that digital media has become a part that cannot be separated from millennial journalists. Dependence on digital media forms a digital fetishism. This research shows that millennial journalists remain disadvantaged and tend to be exploited. Journalists also have the status of digital labor. Digital fetishism has become an ideology and identity which shackles millennial journalists. This study suggests that many opportunities can still be developed by gaining a sustainable future by prioritizing innovation, professionalism, independence, and inclusion.","PeriodicalId":40520,"journal":{"name":"Plaridel","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90913310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PlaridelPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.52518/2022-06lwng
Mariyel Hiyas Liwanag
{"title":"Isang pagsusuring semiolohikal sa mga Duterte mobile game sa Google Play","authors":"Mariyel Hiyas Liwanag","doi":"10.52518/2022-06lwng","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52518/2022-06lwng","url":null,"abstract":"With the rise of video games as a form of entertainment and of the freemium culture in mobile gaming, and within the current political climate in the Philippines since the 2016 national election, free Duterte games have appeared and are still available in Google Play. This study analyzed ten (10) free games from the downloading platform using Barthesian semiology. Mostly identified as shooting games, these games have four elements present. First, the majority of these games have created a myth of President Rodrigo Duterte as the protagonist of these violent games, a myth also created for the “kontra-droga” campaign. Second, several personalities have appeared as allies with a covert message of being in line with or supportive of the protagonist’s motive. Third, weaponry is prominently used in the games, reflective of the policies promised during campaigns and eventually carried out. Fourth, like other games, these ones use the icons of zombies, drug addicts, and criminals as the enemies of the games, alongside the icons of media, jail, and several personalities like Leila De Lima, Edgar Matobato, and Franklin Drilon. In this semiological analysis, the rhetorical strategies of inoculation, identification, and privation of history are employed to uncover the myths behind these prominent game elements.","PeriodicalId":40520,"journal":{"name":"Plaridel","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77581873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PlaridelPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.52518/2022-16swbwa
S. Wibawa
{"title":"The melodramatic children: The representation of children in Ratapan Anak Tiri [Lament of Step-Children] (1973), Ratapan Anak Tiri [Lament of Step-Children 2] (1980), and Arie Hanggara (1985)","authors":"S. Wibawa","doi":"10.52518/2022-16swbwa","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52518/2022-16swbwa","url":null,"abstract":"The New Order’s cultural politics of development of national identity were applied to Indonesian films made during this period as a form of cinema politics. The New Order conceived of cinema as a medium for ideological propaganda which could and should be controlled in order to maintain political stability. Most Indonesian films made during the New Order regime depicted children as part of a discursive strategy to promote national identity within an ideological framework defined by theories of social development and discourses of social and political stability. This article focuses on Ratapan Anak Tiri [Lament of step-children] (1973), Ratapan Anak Tiri [Lament of step-children] 2 (1980), and Arie Hanggara (1985), melodrama genre films that featured suffering children among the main characters was the result of a narrative shift initiated to avoid political problems with the regime. The typical narrative of these films includes the representation of a family with the father figure as the apex, a demonised woman figure, and helpless children at the bottom of the family structure. Primary child characters are predominantly depicted as weak, dependent, and less imaginative. These melodrama films emphasised this pattern in their narrative by presenting an image of the state’s apparatus as a solver of family domestic problems.","PeriodicalId":40520,"journal":{"name":"Plaridel","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79002958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PlaridelPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.52518/2022-02aknytn
T. Akinyetun
{"title":"Social media, political efficacy and political participation in Nigeria","authors":"T. Akinyetun","doi":"10.52518/2022-02aknytn","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52518/2022-02aknytn","url":null,"abstract":"The role of social media in influencing political thinking, perception, and participation is becoming increasingly important, as evident in the volume of research the topic has attracted. This article presents findings on social media, political efficacy, and political participation in Nigeria. The objective is to evaluate the relationship between social media and political efficacy; social media and political participation; and political efficacy and political participation in Nigeria. To this end, the study adopted a web survey design for sample participants across the country, using links distributed through Facebook and Twitter. Snowball sampling was adopted to determine the total number of respondents (N = 3,407). The results of the descriptive statistics and Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient yielded evidence that the majority of social media users in Nigeria are male, young, educated and largely unemployed . It concludes that social media influences political efficacy and political participation in Nigeria.","PeriodicalId":40520,"journal":{"name":"Plaridel","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88425498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PlaridelPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.52518/2022-07alcdem
G. Alcantara, Feorillo A. Demeterio III
{"title":"Pinoy thirst trappers: Panimulang pagsipat at paglalarawan ng thirst trapping ng mga piling Filipinong YouTuber","authors":"G. Alcantara, Feorillo A. Demeterio III","doi":"10.52518/2022-07alcdem","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52518/2022-07alcdem","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract YouTube is seen as a form of participatory culture. It has proven effective in providing a platform for people who are not only professionals in the field of media but also amateurs in video production. While the field of social media is constantly expanding, so is the usage of self-sexualization, which is now referred to as the thirst trap. Thirst trap is an example of a widely practiced selfie culture, or the capacity to upload images in order to attract people’s attention to their sexy bodies. This research is a preliminary investigation into the characterization of the thirst trap concept in YouTube. Using the concept of thirst trap in YouTube, this study aims to start a new discourse about self-sexualization. This study’s findings can be used to further the discourse on new media and self-sexualization.","PeriodicalId":40520,"journal":{"name":"Plaridel","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86869313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PlaridelPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.52518/2022-04medto
Jose S. Medriano, Jose Abelardo Torio
{"title":"Contested social representations of a religious ritual in the Philippines: Text mining online discourses on the Traslación","authors":"Jose S. Medriano, Jose Abelardo Torio","doi":"10.52518/2022-04medto","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52518/2022-04medto","url":null,"abstract":"The article examines the production of contested social representations of a Philippine religious ritual in online spaces using a mixed methods approach to semantic network analysis. Comments from the online media coverage of the 2019 Traslación were mined from the Facebook pages of the eight most popular Philippine media outlets. A semantic network consisting of collocation of frequently used words was generated using R and Gephi. Network analysis produced three word clusters highlighting bifurcations linguistically, in the use of Filipino or English, and substantively, in contested representations. Analysis of these themes reveals the centrality of discourses reifying the ritual as authentic expressions of faith. A minority of discourses reflect criticisms of the Traslación as idolatry. This reflects the dichotomy of discourses in the Traslación literature. The research demonstrates the relevance of social computing in the analysis of meanings of cultural phenomena across large populations.","PeriodicalId":40520,"journal":{"name":"Plaridel","volume":"65 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88169308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PlaridelPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.52518/2022-03hkim
Hojung Kim
{"title":"Archive drive of the unprivileged against the privileged: Ten years and alternative archive","authors":"Hojung Kim","doi":"10.52518/2022-03hkim","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52518/2022-03hkim","url":null,"abstract":"The post-Umbrella Hong Kong is a site where the unprivileged memories are faced with a systematic eradication against the privileged and dominant memories of mainland China. A strong ‘archive drive’ exists in the scene which makes the memories of Hong Kong struggle to preserve themselves in defense to their obliteration. For memories to become archived, or an archive, they should go through two consecutive steps. First, they need to acquire a physical space where they can be preserved. Second, they need to be given a law, order, or way of interpretation and enunciation. While the privileged memories unquestioningly undergo the process, those of the unprivileged confront difficulties in both steps. By looking into the post-Umbrella Hong Kong’s omnibus film Ten Years, this essay will examine the archival struggle of Hong Kong memories where they show emotional anxiety and frustration, but also seek for an alternative way to become an actual archive.","PeriodicalId":40520,"journal":{"name":"Plaridel","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76351651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}