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The Digital Age and Its Transformations
Full text linkThis paper explores the significance of digital technology in the contemporary world. After briefly discussing the effects of earlier technologies on everyday life, the paper assesses the consequences of interacting in a world where virtuality and simulacra often replace the real. Anthropology as a discipline is particularly effective in describing the changes experienced in a rapidly transforming social world
The Oral Aurality of the Radio Waray Siday
Full text linkThe end of print culture raises many disturbing questions about the position of poetry amidst these immense cultural and technological changes. What will be the place of the poet and his poetry in society now that we are at the cutting edge of technology? What will be the advantage of poetry in what Walter J. Ong calls the technologizing of the word? This study focuses on how the Waray siday as vernacular poetry from the margins emerges into a new form of oral history, known now as secondary orality, as it finds its way on the radio. It analyzes the distinct oral and aural qualities of the radio Waray siday as oral poetry, and how this soundscape somehow contributed to the characteristics of Waray language as reflected in the radio Waray siday. It illustrates how the interplay of orality and aurality create sense and affect in the radio Waray siday that makes it a revitalized, modernized, and powerful poetry. Analysis is grounded on the affect theory which posits that the affective power of the voice (orality), combined with the intimacy of the listening process (aurality), results in a change in behavior realized by listening to the reading of oral poetry; the orality theory which contends the intrinsic superiority of oral to written poetry, even in the age of print; and the radio inclusive theory which shows the link between the radio text, context, and reception. It describes the hybridity of the radio and its intertextuality—an exploration into a multidimensional phenomenon. This paper emphasizes that the meaning of poetry exists in relation to sound (letters waiting to become sound) and visual shape—that sound/shape articulates (and creates) meaning transcribed by a writing that “listens” to reading
COVID-19: Social Disease and Public Prudence
Full text linkThe article profiles the social aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic including the social component of virus transmission, the parallels between national and regional social distancing habits, and the impact of COVID-19 on populations. The interaction of low-contact and high-contact cultures with the COVID-19 virus is analyzed. The public policy response is examined with particular reference to proportionality in decision-making. The article explores the role of mid-range, balanced policies and temperate, moderate actions in dealing with a serious public health issue
Imagining Modern Democracy: A Habermasian Assessment of the Philippine Experiment. Ranilo Balaguer Hermida
Full text linkImagining Modern Democracy: A Habermasian Assessment of the Philippine Experiment.Ranilo Balaguer HermidaAlbany: State University of New York Press, 2014. 338 pp
Vietnam’s COVID-19 Prevention Measures
Full text linkVietnam is considered very vulnerable due to its long land borders and extensive trade with the outside world. Some cities are densely populated and have limited medical infrastructures. But Vietnam’s low-cost containment strategy has been found to be effective. In mid-June, there were only over 350 confirmed COVID-19 cases. With a total population of nearly 100 million, there were no COVID-19 deaths during the first phase of the pandemic. Notably, Vietnam was one of the first countries in the world to lift all domestic restrictions