Jonalou S Labor
Biographic Data
| ID | 93792 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonalou S Labor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonalou S |
| FAMILY NAME | Labor |
| SIGNATURE | LABOR J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Philippines Diliman |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8210-5081 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Domesticating disruption
This article examines cryptocurrency adoption in the Bicol Region of the Philippines through 14 months of multisited ethnography with the Bicol Blockchain Community (BBC) and three national government agencies. Against libertarian narratives framing blockchain as a tool of financial emancipation, the Bicol case reveals institutional absorption: the incorporation of a nominally anti-statist technology into existing hierarchies of governance, crede…
Exploring digital placemaking of queer religiosity
In a predominantly heteronormative society, queer individuals continue to negotiate social spaces and cultures. In the Philippines, the LGBTS Christian Church is one of the few queer-affirming religious institutions that seek to defuse tensions between sexual and religious identities. Through digital and on-the-ground ethnography, we describe the digital practices and infrastructures that enable the church to create a space for queer religiosity.…
Engagements and entanglements in LGBTQ+ hashtag activism
LGBTQ+ pride celebrations in social media are opportunities for collaboration and broader participation. This study interrogates LGBTQ+ activism in X (formerly Twitter) as a functional platform for the LGBTQ+ community to mainstream its advocacy and responses to issues its members face. This research asks the question: How did X users participate in the LGBTQ+ 2021 Pride Celebration using #SulongVaklash? Guided by concepts of hashtag activism and…
Mediatization of care for MSM living with HIV by government and civil society organizations in the Philippines during the Covid-19 pandemic
In the modern milieu, information and communications technologies (ICT) developments have dominated and been domesticated in almost all aspects of human life. This movement was made more palpable during the recent COVID-19 pandemic when access to regular treatment has been disrupted for people living with the human immunodeficiency virus (PLHIV). The health sector had to cope with the “new normal” by migrating to the online sphere. This phenomeno…
Navigating queer digital sex work
This study examines the motives, rewards, and risks faced by Filipino gay, bisexual, and transgender (GBT) sex workers engaged in creating, marketing, and transacting online sex content. Guided by Foucault’s concepts of power and surveillance, it critically explores how queer sex workers navigate the complex intersection of global digital platforms, local cultural norms in the Philippines, and sexual identity. Through in-depth interviews with 20 …
Queer religiosity through place-making and pakikipagkapwa
In the Philippines, where traditional religious groups dominate discourses on gender and sexuality, the LGBTS Christian Church seeks to ‘equalize, feminize, indigenize, and scandalize the good news of Jesus Christ’. Using ethnography, we conducted participant observations and interviewed pastors and church members to document their embodied experiences as they understand and interpret their participation in the LGBTS Christian Church. The study a…
Situating queerness in Filipino experience
This paper aims to describe and understand the parloristang bakla (queer hairdresser) and their journey of becoming as told through their stories of paglaladlad, a local construct and experience that is the closest equivalent to "coming out." Specifically, this paper aims to describe how the parloristang bakla views their identity as bakla (queer) and as hairdresser, characterize common themes or episodes in their paglaladlad, and dialogue their …
Locked down queer love
Gay couples who have been displaced by the COVID-19 pandemic had to work with communication platforms so that they could process and proceed with their relationships. Using the notion of romantic intimacy as mediated and socially processed information, interviews were analysed in order to describe twelve (12) gay couples' enacted communication in order to approximate interpersonal romance. Results have shown that gay couples communicate affective…
Queered online pandemic relationships
Drawing from the assumptions on queer and mobile intimacy, emotion work, and care, this paper explores the role of mobile communication platform access and use among Filipino gay couples who have been physically separated because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The paper looks at in-depth narratives of 24 gay men whose romances have been transferred to and transformed by messaging apps due to the pandemic. The accounts of these gay couples represent th…
Mobile Sexuality
Mobile dating applications have become self-presentation spaces and stages among the youth. In the search for romance and sexual relationships, young Filipinos create and act out pre and co-constructed selves that enable them to find dating partners. Using the musings and experiences of 50 Filipino young adults who have been using dating apps to search for love or lust, the study found that created mobile/ online selves or faces reflect presentat…
Construction of Development from Inside the Development Communication Syllabi
Discourses of development in academic institutions must be thoroughly investigated. Using a set of Development Communication (DevCom) syllabi and the theories of Xu Xiaoge (2009) and Arturo Escobar (1995), this paper qualitatively investigated on the nature and process of the constructed discourse of development in an academic setting from sample course syllabi content, topics and activities.Results have shown that the syllabi's content and disco…
Locked down queer love
Gay couples who have been displaced by the COVID-19 pandemic had to work with communication platforms so that they could process and proceed with their relationships. Using the notion of romantic intimacy as mediated and socially processed information, interviews were analysed in order to describe twelve (12) gay couples' enacted communication in order to approximate interpersonal romance. Results have shown that gay couples communicate affective…
Situating queerness in Filipino experience
This paper aims to describe and understand the parloristang bakla (queer hairdresser) and their journey of becoming as told through their stories of paglaladlad, a local construct and experience that is the closest equivalent to "coming out." Specifically, this paper aims to describe how the parloristang bakla views their identity as bakla (queer) and as hairdresser, characterize common themes or episodes in their paglaladlad, and dialogue their …
Construction of Development from Inside the Development Communication Syllabi
Discourses of development in academic institutions must be thoroughly investigated. Using a set of Development Communication (DevCom) syllabi and the theories of Xu Xiaoge (2009) and Arturo Escobar (1995), this paper qualitatively investigated on the nature and process of the constructed discourse of development in an academic setting from sample course syllabi content, topics and activities.Results have shown that the syllabi's content and disco…
Construction of Development from Inside the Development Communication Syllabi
Discourses of development in academic institutions must be thoroughly investigated. Using a set of Development Communication (DevCom) syllabi and the theories of Xu Xiaoge (2009) and Arturo Escobar (1995), this paper qualitatively investigated on the nature and process of the constructed discourse of development in an academic setting from sample course syllabi content, topics and activities.Results have shown that the syllabi's content and disco…
Mobile Sexuality
Mobile dating applications have become self-presentation spaces and stages among the youth. In the search for romance and sexual relationships, young Filipinos create and act out pre and co-constructed selves that enable them to find dating partners. Using the musings and experiences of 50 Filipino young adults who have been using dating apps to search for love or lust, the study found that created mobile/ online selves or faces reflect presentat…
Queered online pandemic relationships
Drawing from the assumptions on queer and mobile intimacy, emotion work, and care, this paper explores the role of mobile communication platform access and use among Filipino gay couples who have been physically separated because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The paper looks at in-depth narratives of 24 gay men whose romances have been transferred to and transformed by messaging apps due to the pandemic. The accounts of these gay couples represent th…
Locked down queer love
Gay couples who have been displaced by the COVID-19 pandemic had to work with communication platforms so that they could process and proceed with their relationships. Using the notion of romantic intimacy as mediated and socially processed information, interviews were analysed in order to describe twelve (12) gay couples' enacted communication in order to approximate interpersonal romance. Results have shown that gay couples communicate affective…
Engagements and entanglements in LGBTQ+ hashtag activism
LGBTQ+ pride celebrations in social media are opportunities for collaboration and broader participation. This study interrogates LGBTQ+ activism in X (formerly Twitter) as a functional platform for the LGBTQ+ community to mainstream its advocacy and responses to issues its members face. This research asks the question: How did X users participate in the LGBTQ+ 2021 Pride Celebration using #SulongVaklash? Guided by concepts of hashtag activism and…
Mediatization of care for MSM living with HIV by government and civil society organizations in the Philippines during the Covid-19 pandemic
In the modern milieu, information and communications technologies (ICT) developments have dominated and been domesticated in almost all aspects of human life. This movement was made more palpable during the recent COVID-19 pandemic when access to regular treatment has been disrupted for people living with the human immunodeficiency virus (PLHIV). The health sector had to cope with the “new normal” by migrating to the online sphere. This phenomeno…
Navigating queer digital sex work
This study examines the motives, rewards, and risks faced by Filipino gay, bisexual, and transgender (GBT) sex workers engaged in creating, marketing, and transacting online sex content. Guided by Foucault’s concepts of power and surveillance, it critically explores how queer sex workers navigate the complex intersection of global digital platforms, local cultural norms in the Philippines, and sexual identity. Through in-depth interviews with 20 …
Queer religiosity through place-making and pakikipagkapwa
In the Philippines, where traditional religious groups dominate discourses on gender and sexuality, the LGBTS Christian Church seeks to ‘equalize, feminize, indigenize, and scandalize the good news of Jesus Christ’. Using ethnography, we conducted participant observations and interviewed pastors and church members to document their embodied experiences as they understand and interpret their participation in the LGBTS Christian Church. The study a…
Situating queerness in Filipino experience
This paper aims to describe and understand the parloristang bakla (queer hairdresser) and their journey of becoming as told through their stories of paglaladlad, a local construct and experience that is the closest equivalent to "coming out." Specifically, this paper aims to describe how the parloristang bakla views their identity as bakla (queer) and as hairdresser, characterize common themes or episodes in their paglaladlad, and dialogue their …
Domesticating disruption
This article examines cryptocurrency adoption in the Bicol Region of the Philippines through 14 months of multisited ethnography with the Bicol Blockchain Community (BBC) and three national government agencies. Against libertarian narratives framing blockchain as a tool of financial emancipation, the Bicol case reveals institutional absorption: the incorporation of a nominally anti-statist technology into existing hierarchies of governance, crede…
Exploring digital placemaking of queer religiosity
In a predominantly heteronormative society, queer individuals continue to negotiate social spaces and cultures. In the Philippines, the LGBTS Christian Church is one of the few queer-affirming religious institutions that seek to defuse tensions between sexual and religious identities. Through digital and on-the-ground ethnography, we describe the digital practices and infrastructures that enable the church to create a space for queer religiosity.…
Sociology (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Queer (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Medicine (3 works)