Earlier this month, McDonald’s Philippines released yet another conspicuous video advertisement that seemingly struck an appeal to the youth couples and millenials in general.
Author Archives: Jefferson Lyndon D. Ragragio
The paradoxical disposition of the media to instigate public attention lies in its ability to popularize a social phenomenon.
Guided by scant literature on alternative and critical media, a couple of common keywords constitute the formation of alternative media in the areas of media audience, news themes and issues, and, purpose and functions.
The media workers, notably those immersed in the community media including alternative, grassroots-based and advocacy journalism, are part of the communal force of the working class.
The elections are almost over and we expect a symbolic turnaround in power hours from now.
The media is indeed an arena of struggle. As a political and economically-driven social institution, it provides a space for the production of multiple viewpoints of diverse fields of interest.
Heckling is culturally embedded in Philippine politics. It is popularly construed as disturbance of a current activity through interrupting, questioning or shouting at the other party as in the case of disrupting a speech of a political figure.
The State in collusion with its mining capitalist-conspirators deploys military and paramilitary forces to ensure elitist economic gains from mining and mineral explorations. As a result of militarization, the Lumad had to be displaced from their ancestral lands. And born out of this is the formation of culture of resistance.
