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B. K-Fashion and Technology-Driven Globalization in the Philippine Setting
No full textK-fashion is a manifestation of technology-driven globalization. Globalization, or the process of acrossborders interaction and integration, has been fueled by modern advancements in Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Popular culture, of which K-pop would be a good example, is a manifestation of this process. It is likewise fueled by technology, by the internet, by online means of acquiring data. In this globalized age, ICT is an open source of information on the rise and fall of K-pop groups. The access—to these information—that they give also reflects their role in the actual rise and fall of these global groups. In the Philippine setting, technology-driven globalization manifests in popular culture only indirectly. This process of interaction and integration can be visibly seen in the more wearable and more tangible products of K-fashion. With the internet providing means to download free music and videos, Filipinos can instead use their resources to shop for clothes, in both physical stalls and online stores. As a third-world country, the Philippines finds itself not far above the modified poverty-line called the wash-line. Despite this, however, they manage to innovate and find creative ways to participate—become active receivers—of the process that continuously connects the technological world
The Matrix of S&M in Korean Cinema: Time, Space, Trauma, Power
Get PDFJust as Jean Baudrillard predicted that a new era would arrive wherein sexual desire would emerge, the late ’90s in Korea were marked as the fin-de-siècle of sexual explosion in popular culture, in the transition of the culture from pre-modernism to modernism. Sex and nudity became prevalent properties in popular culture and film, as a window onto the world, also joined this parade by equipping its products with erotically provocative visuals and transgressive texts. This study aims to shed some light on the social meaning of sadomasochism (S&M) by viewing it as an expression of power relations (dominance/submission & discipline/punishment) within the larger social schema. This would involve the use of the body as the site where geopolitical conflicts are inscribed, in relation to the emergence of an authoritarian system that required masochistic acceptance of the concepts of dedication and self-sacrifice
Cornelio, Jayeel Serrano. Being Catholic in the Contemporary Philippines: Young People Interpreting Religion
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The Restoration of the Catechumenate: Some Voices from the Peripheries in the Redaction of Ad Gentes 14
Get PDFEnding Human Trafficking: A Stakeholder’s Challenge
Get PDFThe paper analyzes the concepts, theories, causes, and methods of human trafficking as culled from various contemporary policy capacity literature which tackle human trafficking as thematic consideration and topical affair. It posits the question of the what, why, and how of human trafficking and attempts to answer these questions using an integrative review approach of literature. A critical component of the paper is its analysis and discussion on the current and prevailing stakeholder institutions, actors and agents engage in human trafficking and the corresponding challenges, opportunities and directions it needs to do to stop human traffickin
