(MAR. 27)鈥擳he January to June 2017 issue of Humanities 茄子视频app (HD Vol. 14, No. 1) is now available online.
The UP 茄子视频app鈥檚 (UPD) official internationally-refereed journal in the Arts and Humanities has four articles and two exhibition reviews.
The articles are:聽 鈥淭he Celebritization of Pope Francis during His Five-Day Visit to the Philippines鈥 by Gerry M. Lanuza of UPD; 鈥淐lick-analysis of a Lesbian Online Community in Facebook Using the Critical Discourse Analysis and Natural Language Processing鈥 by researchers Alona Jumaquio-Ardales of De La Salle University (DLSU) Science and Technology Complex, Nathaniel Oco of National University and Rowell Madula of DLSU; 鈥淎nnual Reports as Autobiography: A Tale of a Television Company鈥 by Fernando de la Cruz Paragas; 鈥淭he Dynamics of the Historiographies within the Religious-Historical Paintings of Carlos 鈥淏otong鈥 Francisco鈥 by Melanie D.P. Turingan of the University of Santo Tomas and F.P.A. Demetrio III of DLSU; 鈥淟and of Sustainability, Cradle of Divinities: Ise and Izumo Kami no Miya鈥 by Marc J. San Valentin of UPD, and 鈥淚NABEL: Philippine Textile from the Ilocos Region鈥 by Carmita Eliza de Jesus Icasiano of State University of New York at Binghamton.
The late Dr. Reuben Ramas Ca帽ete, the journal鈥檚 editor-in-chief, said the authors explore 鈥渁rticles that outline the extent by which mediatization structures our daily cultural experiences as audiences and participants, and show how publics react to certain 鈥榬epresentations of culture鈥 as presented by the media.鈥
Lanuza鈥檚 paper attempts to provide an analysis of the 鈥渃elebritization鈥 and 鈥渃elebrification鈥 of Pope Francis when he visited the Philippines from Jan. 15 to 19, 2015.
Ca帽ete said Lanuza, who utilized the critical theories of Frankfurt School, argues that 鈥渢his 鈥榗elebritization鈥 process creates a (false) spectacle of the representation of the Holy Roman Catholic Pontiff that is often at odds with the message of simplicity, humility, and selflessness that Pope Francis himself advocates.鈥
Researchers Ardales, Oco and Madula chose the organization of a lesbian community or LESCOM as subject of the study which aims 鈥渢o describe the discourse on the online community of lesbians in the Philippines.鈥
The editor notes that 鈥淪ocial media鈥檚 need to encourage massive numbers of interactive users to participate and immerse in interest-driven themes and agendas serve to create virtual communities were otherwise suppressed identities and voices can find 鈥榓 room of one鈥檚 own鈥 as Virginia Woolf once wrote.鈥 Such is the case of the three researchers鈥 online study which 鈥渓ooks at how 鈥楩ilipino lesbian-ness鈥 is accepted and encouraged in the 鈥榞local鈥 world of social media through the number of 鈥榣ikes鈥 the group鈥檚 page receives.鈥
Meanwhile, Paragas used annual reports (AR) of ABS-CBN, the biggest media conglomerate in the Philippines, between 1996 and 2010 as a case study for his paper and applied Norman Fairclough鈥檚 Critical Discourse Analysis framework to analyze the ARs.
At the heart of mediatization鈥檚 own constituent identity is the idea 鈥減ersonhood and 鈥減ersonality.鈥 The editor inquired, 鈥淚f individuals with specific gender, ethnic, linguistic, or occupational markers are allowed online existences that then branch out into interactive networks, what about those media companies who must distinguish from each other鈥檚 identities for marketing and representational reasons?鈥
According to Ca帽ete, Paragas鈥檚 study 鈥渇ocuses on a narrower version of this 鈥榗orporate personality鈥 by tracing how the company represents itself to its ownership and public through the methods, narratives, and agendas explicated by the AR.鈥
Turingan and Demetrio, in their paper examine four religious historical works of National Artist for Painting Carlos 鈥淏otong鈥 Francisco and the hidden tensions between Hegelian and orientalist historiographies and postcolonial historiography. These works are 鈥淭he Introduction of Christianity in the Philippines (1965), the first two panels of Progress of Medicine (1953), First Mass in the Philippines (1965), and Introduction of the First Christian Image (1965).
This聽 reaffirms the 鈥渃ontention of mediatization鈥檚 hold of the popular imagination to famous imagery, where canonical works of art are subject to endless debates of meaning and relevance by experts as viewed by global audiences, while the status of the artwork as 鈥榲enerated鈥 or 鈥榗elebritized鈥 object remains unquestioned,鈥 according to Ca帽ete.
San Valentin鈥檚 exhibition review on Japanese photographers Ise and Izumo Kami no Miya 鈥渇ollows the exacting process of media production of the artist鈥檚 lush medium of printing large-format photographs into traditional washi paper; as well as his focus on two themes that have defined the artist鈥檚 relationship with art and culture, his initial training in France, and his return and rejuvenation in Japan,鈥 Ca帽ete notes.
For Icasiano鈥檚 review, Ca帽ete said reaffirmation of cultural roots took the form of the exhibition 鈥淚nabel鈥 (2015), which for the New York-based author 鈥減resented a dignified rendering of a traditional artisanal practice, with a distinctly forward-looking approach to heritage that bolsters a hope to save the weaving practice from oblivion.鈥
Ca帽ete was appointed as Humanities 茄子视频app鈥檚 editor-in-chief in 2015. He previously served as one of its associate editors from 2012-2014. He on Feb. 17 at the age of 50.
Other members of the editorial board are:聽 associate editors Prof. Patrick F. Campos, Dr. Ramon G. Guillermo, Dr. Carolyn S. Hau, Dr. Ruth Jordana L. Pison, Dr. Helen Yu Rivera and Dr. Matthew M. Santamaria; managing editor Dr. Gonzalo A. Campoamor II, editorial assistant Epifania M. Domingo, layout artist Dercylis G. Mararac, and copy editors Arvin A. Mangohig and Eilene Antoinette G. Narvaez.
For the list of the members of the international advisory board, click聽.
To inquire about the journal鈥檚 printed version, please contact the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Development (OVCRD) at (02) 981-8500 local 4048 or (02) 436-8720.
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