PlaridelPub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.52518/2020-06crstmo
J. Crisostomo
{"title":"What We Do When We #PrayFor: Communicating Posthumanitarian Solidarity Through #PrayForMarawi","authors":"J. Crisostomo","doi":"10.52518/2020-06crstmo","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52518/2020-06crstmo","url":null,"abstract":"When Islamic State-inspired extremists laid siege in Marawi City, #PrayForMarawi circulated across various social media platforms. Using Kenneth Burke’s Guilt-redemption rhetoric as framework, how was solidarity communicated through #PrayForMarawi tweets? #PrayForMarawi frames the terrorist siege as the source of guilt which destroyed our upholding of cosmopolitan values. Mortification in the form of self-sacrifice is performed through the announcement of acts of prayer online while victimage is communicated by offering up ISIS as the tragic scapegoat that needs to be banished. Through this framing of the situation, the liberation of the city becomes the “amen” of the online prayer utterance, transporting socio-political events onto the realm of divine intervention. The liberation of Marawi was the ultimate purging of guilt in #PrayForMarawi. However, two years after the liberation of Marawi, no hashtags of solidarity are trending for the 100,000 Marawi residents who are still displaced and homeless. Some of the residents have even expressed their frustration and impatience toward the government’s broken promises of rehabilitation. Because of the redemption acknowledged in the answered prayers of liberation of #PrayForMarawi, a post-humanitarian solidarity of “mass self-communication” purified our individual guilt while failing to provide a collective and sustained commitment for justice towards the suffering of others.","PeriodicalId":40520,"journal":{"name":"Plaridel","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73802891","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 : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.52518/2020.17.2-04qntos
J. J. Quintos
{"title":"Ang “Aswang” at “Tama(w)o” Bilang Sinematikong Kaalamang-Bayan at Diyalektika ng Bansa at Rehiyon","authors":"J. J. Quintos","doi":"10.52518/2020.17.2-04qntos","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52518/2020.17.2-04qntos","url":null,"abstract":"This essay attempts to construct and deconstruct the discourses of “nation” (bayan) and “region” (rehiyon) vis-à-vis “aswang” and “tama(w)o” embedded in the films of Negrense filmmaker Richard Somes – “Lihim ng San Joaquin” from Shake, Rattle, and Roll 2k5 (Monteverde, Monteverde, & Somes, 2005), Yanggaw (Arguelles, Montelibano, Montelibano, & Somes, 2008), “Tamawo” from Shake, Rattle, and Roll 13 (Monteverde, Monteverde, & Somes, 2011), and Corazon: Ang Unang Aswang (Calmerin, Kintanar, Samson-Martinez, & Somes, 2012). Using the horror genre, the four films present the quotidian lives from the nation’s peripheries through the depiction of the antagonized “indigenous belief systems,” imagined backward-ness of the bucolic landscape, and oppressive hacienda systems. These spatio-temporal dispositifs are deemed to result in the contested processes of the dichotomy and vicissitudes between rural and urban, margin and center, Self and Other, and nation and region. Finally, by considering Somes’s films as “filmic folklore,” the essay tries to configure and reconfigure the folk creatures “aswang” and “tama(w)o” as cornucopia and articulations of regional and national “history of emotions.”","PeriodicalId":40520,"journal":{"name":"Plaridel","volume":"34 1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91195709","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 : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.52518/2020-03lmibao
Ma. Aurora Liwag-Lomibao
{"title":"A Tale of Three Women: Framing as a Patriarchal Practice in the News Coverage of Women in Distress ","authors":"Ma. Aurora Liwag-Lomibao","doi":"10.52518/2020-03lmibao","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52518/2020-03lmibao","url":null,"abstract":"Women in situations of distress receive a disproportionate amount of news coverage. As survivors (or perpetrators) of crime, violence, or natural disasters, they are naturally “newsworthy”—a newsroom term for the subjective lens with which truthtellers define and select their news frames. These frames, which govern the identification and coverage of what is “newsworthy,” box women into specific, patriarchal roles. Women who do not fall within the traditional feminine archetypes are labeled as dissidents or insurgents, and are excluded, dismissed, rejected, or worse persecuted, until the news recasts them into more familiar molds. This is exemplified in the Philippine Daily Inquirer’s news coverage of Mary Jane Veloso, a Filipina convicted of drug trafficking in Indonesia and sentenced to death in 2010. An examination of the Inquirer’s coverage of the Veloso case unearthed the gender biases that are inherent in the subjective rules that govern the patterns of selection and depiction in mainstream newsrooms.","PeriodicalId":40520,"journal":{"name":"Plaridel","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88085168","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 : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.52518/2020.17.2-01mallri
Mary Anne D.C. Mallari
{"title":"The Dynamics of Globalization in the Regional Film The Chanters","authors":"Mary Anne D.C. Mallari","doi":"10.52518/2020.17.2-01mallri","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52518/2020.17.2-01mallri","url":null,"abstract":"Globalization affects specific regions in the Philippines both in positive and adverse ways. While it brings in capital from migrant laborers and more advanced communication technology to connect remote regions to highly urbanized areas, globalization also causes the disenfranchisement of natives and their cultures. Its effect on ethnic cultures is clearly seen in James Robin Mayo’s The Chanters (Cena, Nazareno, Lapuz, & Mayo, 2017), a regional film about a young girl named Sarah Mae, a member of an ancient Panay-Bukidnon tribe too engrossed in globalized influences that she almost forgets the importance of her ethnic culture, as seen in her treatment of her grandfather Ramon, one of the few living chanters of their tribe. Using the aforementioned film, this paper attempts to explain the development of globalization in rural areas using Appadurai’s theory of global cultural flows. In addition, this paper will discuss how the effect of globalization in rural communities is analogous to the development of regional films, using Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of a rhizomatic growth found in A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1987). Ultimately, this type of development of regional films, with the aid of globalization, leads to a greater appreciation of the cultures in the regions and proves that the regions are an integral part of the nation.","PeriodicalId":40520,"journal":{"name":"Plaridel","volume":"84 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76694933","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 : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.52518/2020.16.2-01velure
Veluree Metaveevinij
{"title":"Consuming Modernity and Nostalgia: A Case Study of Cross-border Representations and Fandom of Thailand-Myanmar Transnational Cinema","authors":"Veluree Metaveevinij","doi":"10.52518/2020.16.2-01velure","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52518/2020.16.2-01velure","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores representations of identities and fandom in two Southeast Asia border-crossing films, Myanmar in Love in Bangkok (2014) and From Bangkok to Mandalay (2016). Both films have already been exhibited in Thailand and Myanmar and have gained a huge following in both countries. Myanmar in Love in Bangkok portrays a contemporary migrant situation: It is a love story between a male Burmese migrant worker and a Thai woman played by Kaew Korravee, a Thai leading actress who has become famous in Myanmar because of her portrayal of this modern and unconventional character. Alternatively, From Bangkok to Mandalay, which notably presents Burmese and Siamese cultural heritage, has successfully created a feeling of nostalgia among the Thai audience, resulting in fan tourism to Myanmar. Comparing these two cases, I argue that consuming modernity and nostalgia are the main driving forces of the cross-border representations and their subsequent fandom. This paper also engages with the existing fan studies framework put forward by Koichi Iwabuchi and extends the studies of transnational fans further by considering the Southeast Asian sociocultural context.","PeriodicalId":40520,"journal":{"name":"Plaridel","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84393271","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 : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.52518/2020.16.2-03prsnam
Natthanai Prasannam
{"title":"The Yaoi Phenomenon in Thailand and Fan/Industry Interaction","authors":"Natthanai Prasannam","doi":"10.52518/2020.16.2-03prsnam","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52518/2020.16.2-03prsnam","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims to explore yaoi phenomenon in Thailand particularly during the 2010s at the height of the industry involvement with yaoi fandom. The article draws on Paul Booth’s (2015) study of fan/industry interaction to expand existing scholarship on yaoi phenomenon in Thailand which tends to focus on textual readings linking back to the Japanese cultural origin, ethnographic research, and the aspect of queer cultural politics. The study also draws attention to GMMTV Company Limited, a key player in expanding the yaoi industry in Thailand and growing the fandom of Thai yaoi stars in different countries in Asia. The article discusses the way GMMTV expands yaoi industry through connections with the local book industry as well as its own star and music making divisions. It pays close attention to fan/industry interactions rooted in the industry-led mimetic practices inspired by yaoi fan culture. These practices include the act of “shipping” (pairing yaoi couples) through what fans referred to as Official Promotional Videos (OPVs) and television shows. The article then discusses the way GMMTV employs fan nostalgia to create memory-driven activities. The highly commercialized industry-led fan meeting also offers an interesting site to explore fan/industry interactions where fan-led practices were reenacted by the industry yet consumed by fans themselves.","PeriodicalId":40520,"journal":{"name":"Plaridel","volume":"66 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78176297","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 : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.52518/2020.16.2-05pscual
Chuckberry J. Pascual
{"title":"Madonna and Me: Isang Pagmimito","authors":"Chuckberry J. Pascual","doi":"10.52518/2020.16.2-05pscual","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52518/2020.16.2-05pscual","url":null,"abstract":"“Madonna and Me: An Act of Myth-making” attempts to delineate the myth of the Western popstar Madonna as an outsider, and reinscribe the same myth into the writing (and in effect, reading) practice of a Filipino writer. This act of “myth-making” is not just a form of poetics, it can also be seen as an example of a study of postcolonial subjectivity, and a theory of writing.","PeriodicalId":40520,"journal":{"name":"Plaridel","volume":"56 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90256070","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 : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.52518/2020.16.1-06aworar
Ayodeji Olalekan Awobamise, Yosra Jarrar
{"title":"Exploring the Impact of Social and Source Cues on News Selection","authors":"Ayodeji Olalekan Awobamise, Yosra Jarrar","doi":"10.52518/2020.16.1-06aworar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52518/2020.16.1-06aworar","url":null,"abstract":"The current reality in Nigeria is that media houses choose news and the way events are covered based on their ideological or political leanings. At the same time, audience members appear to also choose news contents that reinforce their pre-existing perceptions or views while avoiding those that go against these views. Based on Sears and Freedman’s (1967) review of selective exposure or information utility, this experimental study set out to examine the possible influence of online news social endorsements on news selectivity in Nigeria. Findings reveal that the selective choices news consumers make with regard to consuming and disseminating news on the Internet are significantly influenced by online social endorsements such as Likes and recommendations. Findings also show that the effect of social endorsement is stronger among partisan respondents selecting articles from an ideologically misaligned source and that the presence of social endorsements significantly reduce partisan selectivity.","PeriodicalId":40520,"journal":{"name":"Plaridel","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72813342","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 : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.52518/2020.16.1-04lichua
Leslie Anne L. Liwanag, Michael Charleston B. Chua
{"title":"“Ang Pilipinas Bilang Lupain ng Kabalintunaan:” Si Isabelo De Los Reyes Bilang\u0000 Tagapag-Ambag sa Pahayagang La Solidaridad (1889–1895)","authors":"Leslie Anne L. Liwanag, Michael Charleston B. Chua","doi":"10.52518/2020.16.1-04lichua","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52518/2020.16.1-04lichua","url":null,"abstract":"The project aims to inductively understand and to make an impartial assessment on the articles of Isabelo de los Reyes in the Philippine periodical La Solidaridad (1889–1895). The paper is significant in the sense that this will help towards the understanding on the motives and contribution of the articles in the imagination of the Philippine society. It will also enrich the current studies about the polymath who spent most of his time giving service to the Philippine nation. To achieve such goals, this paper contains five substantive sections: 1) an intellectual biography of de los Reyes as a writer and journalist; 2) contents of de los Reyes’ articles in La Solidaridad; 3) some themes and discourses of de los Reyes’ articles in La Solidaridad; and the 4) critical conclusion on his thoughts and contribution in the said periodical.","PeriodicalId":40520,"journal":{"name":"Plaridel","volume":"124 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86434226","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}