PlaridelPub Date : 2020-06-01DOI: 10.52518/2020.17.1-10chusrn
Yvonne T. Chua, Jake Soriano
{"title":"Electoral Disinformation: Looking Through the Lens of Tsek.ph Fact Checks","authors":"Yvonne T. Chua, Jake Soriano","doi":"10.52518/2020.17.1-10chusrn","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52518/2020.17.1-10chusrn","url":null,"abstract":"Elections are fertile ground for disinformation. The 2019 midterm elections, like the 2016 presidential election, buttress this observation. This ugly side of electoral contests is documented by Tsek.ph, a pioneering collaborative fact-checking initiative launched by three universities and eleven newsrooms specifically for the midterms. Its repository of fact checks provides valuable insights into the nature of electoral disinformation before, during and after the elections. Clearly, electoral disinformation emanates from candidates and supporters alike, on conventional (e.g., speeches and sorties) and digital (e.g., social media) platforms. Its wide range of victims includes the media no less.","PeriodicalId":40520,"journal":{"name":"Plaridel","volume":"45 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72582466","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 : 2020-06-01DOI: 10.52518/2020.17.1-07esprtu
Johann Vladimir José Espiritu
{"title":"Pambihirang Bakla: Ang Homoseksuwalisasyon sa Tambalang Bakla sa Bakla ng “Ang Boyfriend Kong Bading” ni Allan K.","authors":"Johann Vladimir José Espiritu","doi":"10.52518/2020.17.1-07esprtu","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52518/2020.17.1-07esprtu","url":null,"abstract":"This study is part of a project that seeks to gather Filipino, Tagalog, and English OPM songs in the last 30 years that feature the bakla as a character, as a persona, or as a performance––all in an effort to trace the development of the gay, bakla, and homosexual identities in Philippine culture. Through the close-reading of lyrics and music(ality)/arrangement coupled with a combination of cultural and gender, gay, and queer studies, the project aims to determine the features of what constitutes these non-heterosexual male identities in the country through the textual and performative interventions of music. This particular segment of the study dedicated to Allan K.’s “Ang Boyfriend Kong Bading” is a close-reading of the mentioned song through several layers of mimicry and performativity that the text is able to embody by employing the techniques of adaptation and the emulation of gender-driven voicing. Through such complexities of song and the existence of an identity that the song’s utterance achieves in its milieu, the study aims to show how wit, irony, and the assumption of bakla stereotypes are able to give way for gender to cross the borders of sexuality.","PeriodicalId":40520,"journal":{"name":"Plaridel","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88541546","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 : 2020-06-01DOI: 10.52518/2020.17.1-08solis
R. Solis
{"title":"Cruising Through Spaces: Exploring the Mediatization of Gay Cruising in the Philippines","authors":"R. Solis","doi":"10.52518/2020.17.1-08solis","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52518/2020.17.1-08solis","url":null,"abstract":"The emergence of new communications technologies has provided a new space for initiating romantic and sexual relationships among gays who perceive social and physical places to be a traditional space that largely promotes connection among heterosexuals. Now, mobile networking applications like Grindr have made it easier for gay men to “cruise” and meet other men, and are seen to lead to the increasing number of sexual partners, being exposed to risks like sexually transmitted infections (STI), among others. Thus this study, framed within the theory of Mediatization – which critically analyzes the dialectic process in which both media and communications on one hand, and culture and society on the other, mutually shape and change each other in an interactional process – explores the question: How have gays’ way of cruising, or the initiation of romantic or sexual relations (among others), in the Philippines been mediatized across history?","PeriodicalId":40520,"journal":{"name":"Plaridel","volume":"137 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73741660","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 : 2020-06-01DOI: 10.52518/2020.17.1-02lanuza
G. Lanuza
{"title":"The Theological Squabble of Duterte Against the Catholic Church: Discourse Analysis of Duterte’s God-Talk Based on the Verses Found in Online News","authors":"G. Lanuza","doi":"10.52518/2020.17.1-02lanuza","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52518/2020.17.1-02lanuza","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is an attempt to provide a discourse analysis of President Rodrigo Duterte’s controversial statements and public pronouncements about God, the Catholic Church and its clergy, and Christian teachings based on online news and similar websites. Using critical discourse analysis grounded in Michel Foucault’s (1980) theory of knowledge/power nexus, the present paper is a modest attempt to come up with a systematic account of Duterte’s “theological” musings based on his random extemporized diatribes against God and Christian religion. Reconstructing Duterte’s “theology” does not mean assessing it from the mainstream religious point of view but rather bringing into light the theological tenets of Duterte’s concept of God and foregrounding them in the context of our predominantly Christian culture. This study wants primarily to understand what are the objectives that these performative pronouncements seek to achieve politically, and what interests they serve based on Foucault’s (1980) analysis of “regime of truth.”","PeriodicalId":40520,"journal":{"name":"Plaridel","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85634714","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 : 2020-06-01DOI: 10.52518/2020.17.1-01chulab
Ma. Diosa Labiste, Yvonne T. Chua
{"title":"Duterte’s Polemic Against the Catholic Church as Hate Speech","authors":"Ma. Diosa Labiste, Yvonne T. Chua","doi":"10.52518/2020.17.1-01chulab","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52518/2020.17.1-01chulab","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines thirteen speeches of President Rodrigo Duterte that contain lines, paragraphs, and expletives directed against the Roman Catholic Church, to determine if they are forms of hate speech. These speeches were delivered from August 2016, two months after he assumed office, up to May 2017. These rhetorical resources were directed toward the Church and its clergy, which criticized Duterte’s war on drugs, and they have been analyzed using a modified version of the dangerous speech framework of the U.S.-based Dangerous Speech Project (Benesch, 2013), which has five rhetorical elements: speaker, content and its context, audience, medium, and response. This study defines hate speech as a speech that attacks personal dignity, dehumanizes groups, incites discrimination, advocates hostility, creates a social wedge, and imputes a crime.","PeriodicalId":40520,"journal":{"name":"Plaridel","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72447200","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: 10.52518/2020.17.2-02pgrant
Paul L. Grant
{"title":"Screening Place: Regional and Vernacular Cinemas in Cebu","authors":"Paul L. Grant","doi":"10.52518/2020.17.2-02pgrant","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52518/2020.17.2-02pgrant","url":null,"abstract":"The history of autonomous cultural production in the Philippines has been both blessed and cursed with a series of significant but contentious debates largely stemming from the nation’s historical battles with colonialism and how that experience problematized the concept of an easily definable national identity. Using geographical concepts surrounding place to open up new approaches to understanding local cultural production, this essay turns to Philippine cinema as a propaedeutic for this contested history and traces the emergence and difficulties of vernacular and regional cinemas in Cebu, Philippines.","PeriodicalId":40520,"journal":{"name":"Plaridel","volume":"117 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79423052","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: 10.52518/2020.17.2-06pnzon
Jocelyn Pinzon
{"title":"The Cebuano Bugalbugal","authors":"Jocelyn Pinzon","doi":"10.52518/2020.17.2-06pnzon","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52518/2020.17.2-06pnzon","url":null,"abstract":"Bugalbugal, defined in this paper as a verbal event that makes use of playfully derisive language, is examined, interpreted, defined, and given discursive order based on data from dictionaries and fieldwork. Using the Communication Theory on Language by Roman Jakobson to structure the analysis of data gathered from interviewees, this research offers preliminary knowledge on bugalbugal, putting forward its five core elements: it is a social transaction and a cultural practice; it has cultural and historical specificity; it has norms on power and behavior as well as on language; it has laughter and ridicule; and, it has ritualistic qualities.","PeriodicalId":40520,"journal":{"name":"Plaridel","volume":"56 11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83658056","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: 10.52518/2020.17.2-07cstro
Imelda P. de Castro
{"title":"Exiles, Displacements, and Relocation through the Trauma of Birth in Anak, Barcelona, Dubai, and Milan","authors":"Imelda P. de Castro","doi":"10.52518/2020.17.2-07cstro","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52518/2020.17.2-07cstro","url":null,"abstract":"Culture is the identification of a person or community’s origin. It is a set of values taught since birth and implemented throughout living. The variation of culture in the global setting is vast and allows other cultures to be affected by another. Filipino culture is very rich and passed down through generations, but Filipinos find it necessary to live and work away from their homeland. This study aims to prove the cultural ramifications experienced by the Filipino diaspora through selected Filipino movies. Anak, Barcelona, Dubai, and Milan shed light on the experiences of Filipino people overseas, especially their sufferings and sacrifices. With the guidance of Rank, Freire, and Propp, cultural ramification was observed in the portrayal of the selected movies which are not far from the real experiences of the Filipino diaspora.","PeriodicalId":40520,"journal":{"name":"Plaridel","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86765540","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: 10.52518/2020.17.2-03arobor
Marie Rose B. Arong, Jeneth Borlasa
{"title":"Alternative Modes of Distribution and Exhibition: Cebuano Cinema from the Perspective of Cebuano Filmmakers","authors":"Marie Rose B. Arong, Jeneth Borlasa","doi":"10.52518/2020.17.2-03arobor","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52518/2020.17.2-03arobor","url":null,"abstract":"Although historically detached from the films of the so-called golden ages of Cebuano cinema in the 1950s and the 1970s, a new breed of Cebuano filmmakers have emerged in the 21st century. Through a series of interviews with Cebuano filmmakers, this article will map the alternative modes of distribution and exhibition in contemporary Cebuano cinema. In order to do this, the article begins with a discussion culled from a fresh interview with one of the brains behind the 1970s Cebuano blockbuster, Ang Manok ni San Pedro, Domingo Arong. Ang Manok provides a valuable roadmap for contemporary Cebuano filmmakers. In attempting to connect Ang Manok’s mode of distribution and exhibition with that of the contemporary Cebuano filmmakers, this article hopes to describe Cebuano cinema’s alternative modes of distribution and exhibition.","PeriodicalId":40520,"journal":{"name":"Plaridel","volume":"52 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85293257","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: 10.52518/2020.17.2-05tells
Jason Paolo R. Telles
{"title":"Local Film Production in the Philippine Cordillera: Processes, Motivations, and Constraints","authors":"Jason Paolo R. Telles","doi":"10.52518/2020.17.2-05tells","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52518/2020.17.2-05tells","url":null,"abstract":"The local film production industries in the Philippine Cordillera region have been thriving since the 1980s. In Baguio City, Benguet, and Mountain Province, local filmmakers have already produced various cinematic forms such as documentary films, feature (short and full length) films, music videos, and animated films for various purposes. Utilizing political economy of media as a framework, this paper provides a preliminary exploration of the processes involved in the local production of those types of films in Baguio, Benguet, and Mountain Province. It also discusses the motivations and constraints that influence or inform the decisions and activities of local filmmakers in terms of content and production.","PeriodicalId":40520,"journal":{"name":"Plaridel","volume":"115 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73401140","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}