Jason Vincent A Cabañes
Biographic Data
| ID | 105243 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jason Vincent A Cabañes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jason Vincent A |
| FAMILY NAME | Cabañes |
| SIGNATURE | CABAÑES J V A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6276-9198 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 88 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Glocal intimacies as non-West and global South theory-building for mobile media and communication
Using the theory of glocal intimacies as an illustrative case, this article argues for the value of non-West and global South theorizing for mobile media and communication scholarship. It focuses on the two key ways glocal intimacies draws on postcolonial scholarship to enact such theorizing. One is foregrounding the context of the genesis and development of its key assumptions in order to conceptualize mobile technology's development, adoption, …
Ambivalent visibilities: Social media bullying and disconnective practice of the youth
While bullying on social media among the youth remains a public health problem, there is little that we know about ways of dealing with bullying by disconnection. In this article, we build upon the concepts of disconnective practice (Light, 2014) and visibility (Brighenti, 2007) to explain the ways into which the youth deal with bullying on social media. We draw evidence from in-depth interviews with 152 youth across the Philippines. First, we fi…
Digital media research from beyond the West: Theoretical directions from Philippine-based journals
This article contributes to the intensifying calls to globalize and decolonize the field of media and communication by broadening the possibilities for digital media research. To do so, it takes a deep dive into a set of 27 works on digital media from five Philippine-based journals, all of which were published during the COVID-19 years of 2020–2023. Collectively, they spotlight the entanglements of technologies with the distinct and diverse polit…
Editors' reflections
The transnationality of mobile media and contemporary racisms: A future research agenda
Glocal intimacies: Theorizing mobile media and intimate relationships
This article develops the concept of “glocal intimacies,” capturing the role of mobile media in how people enact and reconfigure their increasingly global experiences of social relationships. It establishes the two foundational assumptions of this concept: the interplay of local and global cultures and the transformative role of mobile media. It then identifies the three key dimensions that characterize glocal intimacies: digital access, contextu…
The imaginative dimension of digital disinformation: Fake news, political trolling, and the entwined crises of Covid-19 and inter-Asian racism in a postcolonial city
This article uses the concept of the 'imaginative dimension of digital disinformation' to explore how inter-Asian racism in a postcolonial city matters to the way people engage with racially tinged Covid-19 digital disinformation. It pays attention to two key socialities that fake news and political trolling online seek to weaponise: people's existing social narratives as well as their relationally embedded practices of media consumption. Drawing…
Glocal intimacies and the contradictions of mobile media access in the Philippines
This article looks at mobile media access in the Philippines and the kind of social intimacies that have emerged from it. To frame our discussion, we use the concept of 'glocal intimacies'. This pertains to how mobile technologies have normalised and intensified the entanglement of people's relationships of closeness with the ever-shifting and constantly negotiated flows between global modernity and local everyday life. We show that the uneven ac…
Digital Labor Solidarities, Collective Formations, and Relational Infrastructures
Research on digital worker experiences have shed light on the problematic realities of digital labor, which include increasing levels of stress and anxiety over financial and career instability, physical exhaustion, and isolation - all of which underscore the precarity that belie the optimistic facade of labor under the new economy. Given the multiple constraints underlying collective formation among digital workers, this panel explores the chara…
Digital Disinformation and the Imaginative Dimension of Communication
To nuance current understandings of the proliferation of digital disinformation, this article seeks to develop an approach that emphasizes the imaginative dimension of this communication phenomenon. Anchored on ideas about the sociality of communication, this piece conceptualizes how fake news and political trolling online work in relation to particular shared understandings people have of their socio-political landscape. It offers the possibilit…
Mobile Media and the Rise of ‘Glocal Intimacies’ in Asia
Although ‘intimacy’ has been often construed as the relationship between two individuals, we contend that these are also ‘social’ and are always imbricated in broader social dynamics. In Asia, the social dimension of intimacies, whether romantic, familial, or communal, is very much pronounced. Crucially, it is also increasingly enacted through mobile media. We argue that these ubiquitous mobile technologies have contributed to the transformation …
Mobile Media and Social Intimacies in Asia: Reconfiguring Local Ties and Enacting Global Relationships
This edited volume brings together contemporary studies from emerging scholars on the place of mobile media technologies in the East/Southeast Asian experience of intimacies across diverse social contexts. These experiences range from intimate relationships and friendships to family ties
Entrepreneurial Solidarities: Social Media Collectives and Filipino Digital Platform Workers
The article examines the role of social media groups for online freelance workers in the Philippines-digital workers obtaining 'gigs' from online labor platforms such as Upwork and Onlinejobs.ph-for social facilitation and collective organizing. The article first problematizes labor marginality in the context of online freelance platform workers situated in the middle of competing narratives of precarity and opportunity. We then examine unique fo…
Fake news and scandal
This chapter aims to understand and misunderstand fake news as a research concept. It addresses each of the critiques by outlining elements of our research on fake news production in the Philippines, which was selected insofar as it provides a non-European case of a phenomenon the discussion of which is usually confined to the industrialized West and which serves as a launching pad for engaging in larger meta-theoretical reflection. The chapter d…
A commentary on the special issue Performance and Citizenship: Challenging populist political performances through citizenship as performance
This piece teases out the links between this special issue’s key themes regarding performance and citizenship and the distinct realities of transitional democracies. To contribute to generating insights into other countries currently in the grip of populist political regimes, it looks at the case of the Philippines. In this context, it matters to think about the diversity of productions that can enable performances of citizenship. This is because…
Information and communication technologies and migrant intimacies: The case of Punjabi youth in Manila
This article examines how South–South migrants use information and communication technologies (ICTs) in negotiating their encounters with traditional cultural imaginaries of intimacy. It focuses on second-generation Punjabi Indian youth in the Philippine capital of Manila. Through an ethnographic approach, it unpacks how these migrants harness technologies to steer through two particular ideals about the end-goal of intimate relationships: the Pu…
Mediating a compromised solidarity
This article explores popular media as resources for judgment in how settled migrants in Europe imagine solidarities toward newer arrivals seeking entry into the region. It discusses the news and entertainment consumption of Filipino nurses in London and how this figures in their imaginary of social and political bonds with refugees. Drawing on ethnographic interviews, I argue that these Filipino migrants can only articulate a compromised solidar…
Bridging the Gap: Journalists’ role orientation and role performance on Twitter
Combining a content analysis of 760 tweets and a survey of journalists who tweeted them, this study revisits the questioned assumption that journalists’ conception of their roles manifests in their journalistic outputs. Studies that have tested this assumption instead found a gap between role orientation and performance, possibly explained by how journalistic outputs are organizational products. Thus, this study focused on role performance as obs…
Migrant narratives as photo stories: On the properties of photography and the mediation of migrant voices
This article examines how the properties of photography might mediate voice, defined as the capacity to speak and to be heard speaking about one’s life and the social conditions in which one’s life is embedded. It focuses on the affordances that the image provides for migrant cultural minorities to articulate such a voice within the context of collaborative research. I look at the case of Shutter Stories, a collaborative photography exhibition fe…
Telling migrant stories in collaborative photography research: Photographic practices and the mediation of migrant voices
This article examines how photographic practices in collaborative research might mediate migrant voices. It looks at the case of Shutter Stories, a collaborative photography project featuring images by Indian and Korean migrants in Manila, the Philippines. Drawing on life-story interviews and participant observation data, I identify two ways that the photographic selection practices in the project mediated the migrants’ photo essays. One is how s…
Media and the city: Cosmopolitanism and difference
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Media and the city: Cosmopolitanism and difference Myria Georgiou Polity, Cambridge and Malden, MA, 2013$64.95 (hard), $22.95 (paperback), 216 pp Jason Vincent Cabañes Jason Vincent Cabañes 1University of Leeds, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 65, Issue 5, October 2015, Pages E9–E12, https://doi.org/10.1111/jcom.12178 Published: 14…
Net Locality: Why Location Matters in a Networked World , by Eric Gordon and Adriana de Souza e Silva
Much of the recent scholarship on the dynamics between new media and contemporary societies have moved away from the once popular argument about an increasingly widening gap between the spaces of t
Multicultural mediations, developing world realities: Indians, Koreans and Manila’s entertainment media
In this article, I examine the mediation of multiculturalism in the developing world city of Manila, the Philippines. Drawing on both a thematic analysis of the Manila-centric Philippine entertainment media and six focus group discussions with the city’s local Filipinos, I reveal that this instance of mediation is entangled with the broader discourses of the Philippine postcolonial nationalist project. For one, the mediation of multiculturalism i…
Of mobile phones and mother-fathers: Calls, text messages, and conjugal power relations in mother-away Filipino families
This article examines how the mobile phone might matter in the exercise of conjugal power relations between left-behind fathers and migrant mothers in transnational Filipino families. Drawing on in-depth interviews of ten pairs of fathers and children from mother-away families, it reveals that the mobile phone provides parents avenues to both expand and hold on to their traditionally gender-differentiated roles. This means that while the technolo…
Engaged, But Not Immersed: Tracking the Mediated Public Connection of Filipino Elite Migrants in London
While most of the literature highlights the social, economic and cultural aspects of Filipino migration, this study explores its political dimension by focusing on the public connection of Filipino elite migrants in London. Unlike other types of Filipino migrants, such as Americanized balikbayans and ‘low-skilled’ labour migrants, elite migrants are expected to return physically to the homeland as part of their nationalistic duty to ‘lead the nat…
Entrepreneurial Solidarities: Social Media Collectives and Filipino Digital Platform Workers
The article examines the role of social media groups for online freelance workers in the Philippines-digital workers obtaining 'gigs' from online labor platforms such as Upwork and Onlinejobs.ph-for social facilitation and collective organizing. The article first problematizes labor marginality in the context of online freelance platform workers situated in the middle of competing narratives of precarity and opportunity. We then examine unique fo…
Of mobile phones and mother-fathers: Calls, text messages, and conjugal power relations in mother-away Filipino families
This article examines how the mobile phone might matter in the exercise of conjugal power relations between left-behind fathers and migrant mothers in transnational Filipino families. Drawing on in-depth interviews of ten pairs of fathers and children from mother-away families, it reveals that the mobile phone provides parents avenues to both expand and hold on to their traditionally gender-differentiated roles. This means that while the technolo…
Bridging the Gap: Journalists’ role orientation and role performance on Twitter
Combining a content analysis of 760 tweets and a survey of journalists who tweeted them, this study revisits the questioned assumption that journalists’ conception of their roles manifests in their journalistic outputs. Studies that have tested this assumption instead found a gap between role orientation and performance, possibly explained by how journalistic outputs are organizational products. Thus, this study focused on role performance as obs…
Engaged, But Not Immersed: Tracking the Mediated Public Connection of Filipino Elite Migrants in London
While most of the literature highlights the social, economic and cultural aspects of Filipino migration, this study explores its political dimension by focusing on the public connection of Filipino elite migrants in London. Unlike other types of Filipino migrants, such as Americanized balikbayans and ‘low-skilled’ labour migrants, elite migrants are expected to return physically to the homeland as part of their nationalistic duty to ‘lead the nat…
Multicultural mediations, developing world realities: Indians, Koreans and Manila’s entertainment media
In this article, I examine the mediation of multiculturalism in the developing world city of Manila, the Philippines. Drawing on both a thematic analysis of the Manila-centric Philippine entertainment media and six focus group discussions with the city’s local Filipinos, I reveal that this instance of mediation is entangled with the broader discourses of the Philippine postcolonial nationalist project. For one, the mediation of multiculturalism i…
Glocal intimacies: Theorizing mobile media and intimate relationships
This article develops the concept of “glocal intimacies,” capturing the role of mobile media in how people enact and reconfigure their increasingly global experiences of social relationships. It establishes the two foundational assumptions of this concept: the interplay of local and global cultures and the transformative role of mobile media. It then identifies the three key dimensions that characterize glocal intimacies: digital access, contextu…
Glocal intimacies and the contradictions of mobile media access in the Philippines
This article looks at mobile media access in the Philippines and the kind of social intimacies that have emerged from it. To frame our discussion, we use the concept of 'glocal intimacies'. This pertains to how mobile technologies have normalised and intensified the entanglement of people's relationships of closeness with the ever-shifting and constantly negotiated flows between global modernity and local everyday life. We show that the uneven ac…
Mediating a compromised solidarity
This article explores popular media as resources for judgment in how settled migrants in Europe imagine solidarities toward newer arrivals seeking entry into the region. It discusses the news and entertainment consumption of Filipino nurses in London and how this figures in their imaginary of social and political bonds with refugees. Drawing on ethnographic interviews, I argue that these Filipino migrants can only articulate a compromised solidar…
Ambivalent visibilities: Social media bullying and disconnective practice of the youth
While bullying on social media among the youth remains a public health problem, there is little that we know about ways of dealing with bullying by disconnection. In this article, we build upon the concepts of disconnective practice (Light, 2014) and visibility (Brighenti, 2007) to explain the ways into which the youth deal with bullying on social media. We draw evidence from in-depth interviews with 152 youth across the Philippines. First, we fi…
The imaginative dimension of digital disinformation: Fake news, political trolling, and the entwined crises of Covid-19 and inter-Asian racism in a postcolonial city
This article uses the concept of the 'imaginative dimension of digital disinformation' to explore how inter-Asian racism in a postcolonial city matters to the way people engage with racially tinged Covid-19 digital disinformation. It pays attention to two key socialities that fake news and political trolling online seek to weaponise: people's existing social narratives as well as their relationally embedded practices of media consumption. Drawing…
Information and communication technologies and migrant intimacies: The case of Punjabi youth in Manila
This article examines how South–South migrants use information and communication technologies (ICTs) in negotiating their encounters with traditional cultural imaginaries of intimacy. It focuses on second-generation Punjabi Indian youth in the Philippine capital of Manila. Through an ethnographic approach, it unpacks how these migrants harness technologies to steer through two particular ideals about the end-goal of intimate relationships: the Pu…
Telling migrant stories in collaborative photography research: Photographic practices and the mediation of migrant voices
This article examines how photographic practices in collaborative research might mediate migrant voices. It looks at the case of Shutter Stories, a collaborative photography project featuring images by Indian and Korean migrants in Manila, the Philippines. Drawing on life-story interviews and participant observation data, I identify two ways that the photographic selection practices in the project mediated the migrants’ photo essays. One is how s…
Engaged, But Not Immersed: Tracking the Mediated Public Connection of Filipino Elite Migrants in London
While most of the literature highlights the social, economic and cultural aspects of Filipino migration, this study explores its political dimension by focusing on the public connection of Filipino elite migrants in London. Unlike other types of Filipino migrants, such as Americanized balikbayans and ‘low-skilled’ labour migrants, elite migrants are expected to return physically to the homeland as part of their nationalistic duty to ‘lead the nat…
Of mobile phones and mother-fathers: Calls, text messages, and conjugal power relations in mother-away Filipino families
This article examines how the mobile phone might matter in the exercise of conjugal power relations between left-behind fathers and migrant mothers in transnational Filipino families. Drawing on in-depth interviews of ten pairs of fathers and children from mother-away families, it reveals that the mobile phone provides parents avenues to both expand and hold on to their traditionally gender-differentiated roles. This means that while the technolo…
Net Locality: Why Location Matters in a Networked World , by Eric Gordon and Adriana de Souza e Silva
Much of the recent scholarship on the dynamics between new media and contemporary societies have moved away from the once popular argument about an increasingly widening gap between the spaces of t
Multicultural mediations, developing world realities: Indians, Koreans and Manila’s entertainment media
In this article, I examine the mediation of multiculturalism in the developing world city of Manila, the Philippines. Drawing on both a thematic analysis of the Manila-centric Philippine entertainment media and six focus group discussions with the city’s local Filipinos, I reveal that this instance of mediation is entangled with the broader discourses of the Philippine postcolonial nationalist project. For one, the mediation of multiculturalism i…
Media and the city: Cosmopolitanism and difference
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Media and the city: Cosmopolitanism and difference Myria Georgiou Polity, Cambridge and Malden, MA, 2013$64.95 (hard), $22.95 (paperback), 216 pp Jason Vincent Cabañes Jason Vincent Cabañes 1University of Leeds, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 65, Issue 5, October 2015, Pages E9–E12, https://doi.org/10.1111/jcom.12178 Published: 14…
Migrant narratives as photo stories: On the properties of photography and the mediation of migrant voices
This article examines how the properties of photography might mediate voice, defined as the capacity to speak and to be heard speaking about one’s life and the social conditions in which one’s life is embedded. It focuses on the affordances that the image provides for migrant cultural minorities to articulate such a voice within the context of collaborative research. I look at the case of Shutter Stories, a collaborative photography exhibition fe…
Telling migrant stories in collaborative photography research: Photographic practices and the mediation of migrant voices
This article examines how photographic practices in collaborative research might mediate migrant voices. It looks at the case of Shutter Stories, a collaborative photography project featuring images by Indian and Korean migrants in Manila, the Philippines. Drawing on life-story interviews and participant observation data, I identify two ways that the photographic selection practices in the project mediated the migrants’ photo essays. One is how s…
Mediating a compromised solidarity
This article explores popular media as resources for judgment in how settled migrants in Europe imagine solidarities toward newer arrivals seeking entry into the region. It discusses the news and entertainment consumption of Filipino nurses in London and how this figures in their imaginary of social and political bonds with refugees. Drawing on ethnographic interviews, I argue that these Filipino migrants can only articulate a compromised solidar…
Bridging the Gap: Journalists’ role orientation and role performance on Twitter
Combining a content analysis of 760 tweets and a survey of journalists who tweeted them, this study revisits the questioned assumption that journalists’ conception of their roles manifests in their journalistic outputs. Studies that have tested this assumption instead found a gap between role orientation and performance, possibly explained by how journalistic outputs are organizational products. Thus, this study focused on role performance as obs…
Fake news and scandal
This chapter aims to understand and misunderstand fake news as a research concept. It addresses each of the critiques by outlining elements of our research on fake news production in the Philippines, which was selected insofar as it provides a non-European case of a phenomenon the discussion of which is usually confined to the industrialized West and which serves as a launching pad for engaging in larger meta-theoretical reflection. The chapter d…
A commentary on the special issue Performance and Citizenship: Challenging populist political performances through citizenship as performance
This piece teases out the links between this special issue’s key themes regarding performance and citizenship and the distinct realities of transitional democracies. To contribute to generating insights into other countries currently in the grip of populist political regimes, it looks at the case of the Philippines. In this context, it matters to think about the diversity of productions that can enable performances of citizenship. This is because…
Information and communication technologies and migrant intimacies: The case of Punjabi youth in Manila
This article examines how South–South migrants use information and communication technologies (ICTs) in negotiating their encounters with traditional cultural imaginaries of intimacy. It focuses on second-generation Punjabi Indian youth in the Philippine capital of Manila. Through an ethnographic approach, it unpacks how these migrants harness technologies to steer through two particular ideals about the end-goal of intimate relationships: the Pu…
Digital Labor Solidarities, Collective Formations, and Relational Infrastructures
Research on digital worker experiences have shed light on the problematic realities of digital labor, which include increasing levels of stress and anxiety over financial and career instability, physical exhaustion, and isolation - all of which underscore the precarity that belie the optimistic facade of labor under the new economy. Given the multiple constraints underlying collective formation among digital workers, this panel explores the chara…
Digital Disinformation and the Imaginative Dimension of Communication
To nuance current understandings of the proliferation of digital disinformation, this article seeks to develop an approach that emphasizes the imaginative dimension of this communication phenomenon. Anchored on ideas about the sociality of communication, this piece conceptualizes how fake news and political trolling online work in relation to particular shared understandings people have of their socio-political landscape. It offers the possibilit…
Mobile Media and the Rise of ‘Glocal Intimacies’ in Asia
Although ‘intimacy’ has been often construed as the relationship between two individuals, we contend that these are also ‘social’ and are always imbricated in broader social dynamics. In Asia, the social dimension of intimacies, whether romantic, familial, or communal, is very much pronounced. Crucially, it is also increasingly enacted through mobile media. We argue that these ubiquitous mobile technologies have contributed to the transformation …
Mobile Media and Social Intimacies in Asia: Reconfiguring Local Ties and Enacting Global Relationships
This edited volume brings together contemporary studies from emerging scholars on the place of mobile media technologies in the East/Southeast Asian experience of intimacies across diverse social contexts. These experiences range from intimate relationships and friendships to family ties
Entrepreneurial Solidarities: Social Media Collectives and Filipino Digital Platform Workers
The article examines the role of social media groups for online freelance workers in the Philippines-digital workers obtaining 'gigs' from online labor platforms such as Upwork and Onlinejobs.ph-for social facilitation and collective organizing. The article first problematizes labor marginality in the context of online freelance platform workers situated in the middle of competing narratives of precarity and opportunity. We then examine unique fo…
Glocal intimacies and the contradictions of mobile media access in the Philippines
This article looks at mobile media access in the Philippines and the kind of social intimacies that have emerged from it. To frame our discussion, we use the concept of 'glocal intimacies'. This pertains to how mobile technologies have normalised and intensified the entanglement of people's relationships of closeness with the ever-shifting and constantly negotiated flows between global modernity and local everyday life. We show that the uneven ac…
The transnationality of mobile media and contemporary racisms: A future research agenda
Glocal intimacies: Theorizing mobile media and intimate relationships
This article develops the concept of “glocal intimacies,” capturing the role of mobile media in how people enact and reconfigure their increasingly global experiences of social relationships. It establishes the two foundational assumptions of this concept: the interplay of local and global cultures and the transformative role of mobile media. It then identifies the three key dimensions that characterize glocal intimacies: digital access, contextu…
The imaginative dimension of digital disinformation: Fake news, political trolling, and the entwined crises of Covid-19 and inter-Asian racism in a postcolonial city
This article uses the concept of the 'imaginative dimension of digital disinformation' to explore how inter-Asian racism in a postcolonial city matters to the way people engage with racially tinged Covid-19 digital disinformation. It pays attention to two key socialities that fake news and political trolling online seek to weaponise: people's existing social narratives as well as their relationally embedded practices of media consumption. Drawing…
Digital media research from beyond the West: Theoretical directions from Philippine-based journals
This article contributes to the intensifying calls to globalize and decolonize the field of media and communication by broadening the possibilities for digital media research. To do so, it takes a deep dive into a set of 27 works on digital media from five Philippine-based journals, all of which were published during the COVID-19 years of 2020–2023. Collectively, they spotlight the entanglements of technologies with the distinct and diverse polit…
Editors' reflections
Ambivalent visibilities: Social media bullying and disconnective practice of the youth
While bullying on social media among the youth remains a public health problem, there is little that we know about ways of dealing with bullying by disconnection. In this article, we build upon the concepts of disconnective practice (Light, 2014) and visibility (Brighenti, 2007) to explain the ways into which the youth deal with bullying on social media. We draw evidence from in-depth interviews with 152 youth across the Philippines. First, we fi…
Glocal intimacies as non-West and global South theory-building for mobile media and communication
Using the theory of glocal intimacies as an illustrative case, this article argues for the value of non-West and global South theorizing for mobile media and communication scholarship. It focuses on the two key ways glocal intimacies draws on postcolonial scholarship to enact such theorizing. One is foregrounding the context of the genesis and development of its key assumptions in order to conceptualize mobile technology's development, adoption, …
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