scholarly journals Contribution of social media to cetacean research in Southeast Asia: illuminating populations vulnerable to litter

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amber Coram ◽  
Neil Angelo S. Abreo ◽  
Robert P. Ellis ◽  
Kirsten F. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Sperm Whale ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Marine Debris ◽  
Cetacean Species ◽  
Marine Litter ◽  
Deep Diving ◽  
Marine Megafauna ◽  
The Impact

AbstractLitter in the marine environment, in particular plastic, is a significant threat to marine megafauna. Cetaceans are known to ingest or become entangled in marine debris, likely impacting individuals and populations. Southeast Asia is a biodiversity hotspot and harbours a diverse cetacean assemblage. However, there are key knowledge gaps relating to the impact of litter in this region due the lack of experts to survey its vast coastlines. This study aims to address such gaps by using social media, gathering data from Facebook posts relating to cetacean strandings and litter across Southeast Asia between 2009 and 2019. Results show that at least 15 cetacean species have been negatively affected by litter, with ingestion most commonly affecting deep-diving species. Epipelagic and mesopelagic foragers were most vulnerable to entanglement. Davao in the Philippines was identified as a litter-related stranding hotspot. The Irrawaddy dolphin (Orcaella brevirostris) and pygmy sperm whale (Kogia breviceps) are particularly vulnerable to litter. The combination of social media and peer reviewed literature can help build a more complete picture of the spatial distribution of marine litter and the scale of the impact it has on cetacean populations. In this study we provide details of a valuable online tool for helping to understand the impact of marine litter on cetaceans and other charismatic species that are a focus of community engagement.

Social media as a novel source of data on the impact of marine litter on megafauna: The Philippines as a case study

2019 ◽  
Vol 140 ◽  
pp. 51-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Angelo S. Abreo ◽  
Kirsten F. Thompson ◽  
Glio Florgiley P. Arabejo ◽  
Michael Dann A. Superio
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Marine Litter ◽  
The Impact

'How Does the ASEAN Region Localize International Brands?’ A Multidimensional Analysis of Thai TV ads

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thiti Nawapan ◽  
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Remart P. Dumlao ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Third Space ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Cultural Representation ◽  
Multidimensional Analysis ◽  
Brand Identity ◽  
Identity Positioning ◽  
Asian Context ◽  
The Impact

In intercultural scholarship, there is a considerable number of studies that explores the impact and effect of culturally oriented social media (see Koda 2014, 2016; Mendoza 2010). Of these studies, however, there is a paucity of understanding on how social media becomes a third space of cultural representation, especially in the Southeast Asian context (Dumlao and Wattakan 2020; Feng 2009; Kalscheuer 2008). Drawing from insights connected to inter-semiosis by Kress and Van Leeuwen (1996) and SF-MDA by O’Halloran (2011), therefore, this paper explores the glocalization process and its inclination to cultural representation, and thus creating new discursive forms of identities, by looking at Thai TV ads from January 2019 to December 2019. Two Thai TV ads were purposively chosen from international beverage companies. To capture the glocalization and cultural representation, we compared these with TV ads from other countries, namely, the Philippines, and the U.S.A. Through content and multidimensional analysis, the findings suggest that commercials construct glocal identities through several factors and incidences. These incidences and factors support and provide understanding for brand identity positioning, which itself describes the intersemiosis of elements within contemporary consumer cultures. Implications of this study are discussed in the paper.

Two Tales of Super-Typhoons and Super-Wealth in Northwest Pacific: Will Global-Warming-Fueled Cyclones Ravage East and Southeast Asia?

2018 ◽  
Vol 05 (02n03) ◽  
pp. 1850012 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Niggol Seo
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Negative Binomial ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Northwest Pacific ◽  
Northwest Pacific Ocean ◽  
Income Per Capita ◽  
Unit Increase ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
The Impact

This paper examines the impact of the typhoons generated in the Northwest Pacific Ocean and affecting East/Southeast Asia on the number of human fatalities using the typhoon data from 1980 to 2016 and whether future typhoons, likely more intense due to global warming, will dramatically increase human fatalities. The best-track data and the tropical cyclone (TC) reports show that there was no change in the intensity of cyclones during this time period, nor in the number of fatalities. An application of a negative binomial count-data model of the number of TC fatalities shows that the number of fatalities increases by 1.8 percent in response to a one-unit increase in TC intensity, expressed in terms of the minimum central pressure (MCP), but the number of fatalities also decreases by 0.53 percent in response to a one-unit increase in income per capita. In the future year 2100, a 5 millibar decrease in MCP, i.e., an increase in TC intensity, is predicted to increase the number of fatalities by 9 percent from the present fatality value, while a 10 millibar decrease to increase it by 18 percent. However, an increase in income per capita by 1 percent annually coupled with a 10 millibar decrease in the MCP is predicted to decrease the number of fatalities by 59 percent of the present number of fatalities. A surprisingly high income elasticity in the Northwest Pacific is attributed to the difference between Japan and the Philippines, two island nations both heavily affected by typhoons. The income per capita in Japan is more than 20 times than that of the Philippines, which makes the historical number of fatalities in each cyclone landfall more than 20 times smaller in the former, due to superb historical adaptations.

scholarly journals Perceived Role of Social Media in the Vocabulary Development of University Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. Mee Jay A. Domingo ◽  
Harvey John Tolentino Aguillon
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
University Students ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Vocabulary Development ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
The Impact

In the academe, stakeholders are starting to acknowledge the impact of social media in the teaching and learning process. Aware of this, the researchers conducted this study to determine the role of social media in the language learning experiences of students. Specifically, it identified the social media profile of the students and the platforms’ perceived use and advantages to vocabulary development. In realizing its objectives, the study employed a descriptive research design that involved 83 university students from a state university in the Philippines. Respondents answered an online survey questionnaire, which was tried out first to potential respondents before its actual use. The researchers used descriptive statistics to make sense of the data gathered. Results show that the students have high social media engagement as manifested by the number of social media accounts that they created for themselves (the majority have two or more accounts) and the number of hours that they spend a day online (majority are online for at least three hours a day). All the respondents use Facebook.com, making it the most commonly used social media platform among them. In addition, the study found that students perceive social media as contributory and effective applications for the enhancement of language and vocabulary skills due to the media’s accessibility, universality, ease of use, multimodality, general appeal, and its role in lowering communication anxieties. With these findings, educators are encouraged to explore the possibility of using social media platforms, preferably Facebook, as instructional media, specifically for the teaching of vocabulary. 

The potency of digital media: group chats and mediated scandals in the Philippines

2021 ◽  
pp. 1329878X2198895
Author(s):  
Jozon A Lorenzana
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Public Figures ◽  
Everyday Politics ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Media Group

With widespread use of digital media, public figures and ordinary people easily become involved in scandals. Social media leaks and mobs illustrate how digital media figure into scandals in the context of everyday politics. The occurrence of scandals on digital media prompts questions on emerging dynamics and potentials of digital communication. Using case studies from the Philippines, this study identifies and examines digital media affordances and how they enable mediated scandals. Findings indicate that digital media facilitate the process and intensify the impact of scandals, particularly the effects of public condemnation. However, under certain conditions, digital media enable parties to counter allegations and mobilise support. The article reflects on the possibilities and potency of digital media in everyday politics of reputation.

scholarly journals The Vampires Our Age Deserves: 21st Century Forms of Ancient Evil

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael James Joyce
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
21St Century ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Malay Peninsula ◽  
Organ Trafficking ◽  
Modern Times

Traditionally, the peoples of Southeast Asia have held beliefs in numerous forms of vampires often crossed with ghosts or other spirits, such as Pontianak of the Malay Peninsula, Phi Krasue and Phi Pop of Thailand and the Aswang and Manananggal of the Philippines. These have been theorised as manifestations of fears and repressed aspects of life, including, previously, of dangers that lurk in the wilds surrounding villages. In modern times rumours of and belief in vampires persist and have moved to cities, but these tales are also joined by a more modern bloodsucker, the organ harvester. Poorly-sourced stories of dubious veracity circulate on Facebook feeds, warning parents to keep a close eye on their children lest they are snatched away and killed for their organs. This paper examines parallels between traditional vampire legends of Southeast Asia and current rumours of organ trafficking targeting children, and delves into some of the anxieties fuelling the contemporary stories, anxieties that ultimately spring from the region’s fraught reaction to Neoliberalism.Keywords: Vampires, Southeast Asian vampires, Organ trafficking, Social media, Mythology, Neoliberalism

scholarly journals The relationship between corporate governance and information disclosures: Evidence from the Philippines

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (4-1) ◽  
pp. 191-200
Author(s):  
Nunthapin Chantachaimongkol ◽  
Shuwen Chen
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Audit Committee ◽  
Listed Companies ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Financial Information ◽  
Corporate Disclosure ◽  
Participation Rates ◽  
New Instrument ◽  
The Impact

This paper aims to investigate the impact of board characteristics and auditors on the disclosure practices of listed companies in the Philippines. This study used a self-constructed research instrument, namely the ASEAN Disclosure Index, to assess the extent of corporate disclosure of 21 the Philippines’ listed companies from 2011-2015, made out of 105 observations. The index covers 212 information items, with three attributes: financial information (76 items), non-financial information (68 items) and strategic information (68 items). An empirical result reports that the result reveals that an audit committee independence is positively significant at 95% level while board size and a number of board meetings held in the year are negatively significant at 95% level. For other variables covering board independence, a number director participation rates, gender diversity, CEO duality, a number of audit committee meetings, a number of audit committee participation rates and quality of external auditors, no significant relationship was found. This study contributes to the literature by offering a new instrument for assessing the extent of corporate disclosure in Southeast Asia region and also providing a novel viewpoint into the relationships between corporate governance mechanisms on information disclosure practices in a context of developing countries like the Philippines. Definitely, the contributed empirical evidence of this study might also help regulators for enhancing the level of corporate disclosure in the Philippines as well as neighboring countries in Southeast Asia region.

scholarly journals Sentiment Analysis of Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) in Philippines 2019 Based on Opinion of Internet User of Social Media Twitter with K-Nearest Neighbor and Support Vector Machine

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-41
Author(s):  
Muhammad Riefky ◽  
Wara Pramesti
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Support Vector Machine ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Nearest Neighbor ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Sporting Events ◽  
K Nearest Neighbor ◽  
Support Vector Machine Classification

Sports events are an activity that is in great demand, especially the people of Southeast Asia. One of the most prestigious sporting events in the Southeast Asian region is the Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games). SEA Games is one of the sporting events held in the Southeast Asia region and is only held every two years involving eleven member countries of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN). The most SEA Games issues occurred on Twitter with 20,600 tweets. This is because the 2019 SEA Games event in the Philippines experienced many irregularities, one of which is the Rizal Memorium stadium, which has not been renovated until now. The purpose of this study is to obtain and compare the results of the accuracy of the classification of Twitter users' sentiments towards the 2019 SEA Games in the Philippines using k-nearest neighbor and support vector machine. The data used in this study comes from data from Twitter social media users who often use the hashtag "SEA Games 2019" which has been done with text preprocessing of 2697 tweets with data partitions of 60% for training data and 40% for testing data. The conclusion that can be drawn from this research is that the best accuracy results in the k-nearest neighbor and support vector machine classification are the support vector machine classification with a polynomial kernel of 92.96% so that the predictions of the Support Vector Machine classification tend to be negative. 

Marine debris: A review of impacts and global initiatives

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (10) ◽  
pp. 987-1002 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Agamuthu ◽  
SB Mehran ◽  
A Norkhairah ◽  
A Norkhairiyah
Keyword(s):  
Marine Environment ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Marine Debris ◽  
United Nations Environment Programme ◽  
Major Constituent ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Marine Litter ◽  
Landscape Degradation ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Impact

Marine debris, defined as any persistent manufactured or processed solid material discarded, disposed of or abandoned in the marine and coastal environment, has been highlighted as a contaminant of global environmental and economic concern. The five main categories of marine debris comprise of plastic, paper, metal, textile, glass and rubber. Plastics is recognised as the major constituent of marine debris, representing between 50% and 90% of the total marine debris found globally. Between 4.8 and 12.7 million metric tonnes of consumer plastics end up in the world oceans annually, resulting in the presence of more than 100 million particles of macroplastics in only 12 regional seas worldwide, and with 51 trillion particles of microplastic floating on the ocean surface globally. The impacts of marine debris can be branched out into three categories; injury to or death of marine organisms, harm to marine environment and effects on human health and economy. Marine mammals often accidentally ingest marine debris because of its appearance that can easily be mistaken as food. Moreover, floating plastics may act as vehicles for chemicals and/or environmental contaminants, which may be absorbed on to their surface during their use and permanence into the environment. Additionally, floating plastics is a potential vector for the introduction of invasive species that get attached to it, into the marine environment. In addition, human beings are not excluded from the impact of marine debris as they become exposed to microplastics through seafood consumption. Moreover, landscape degradation owing to debris accumulation is an eyesore and aesthetically unpleasant, thus resulting in decreased tourism and subsequent income loss. There are a wide range of initiatives that have been taken to tackle the issue of marine debris. They may involve manual removal of marine debris from coastal and aquatic environment in form of programmes and projects organised, such as beach clean-ups by scientific communities, non-governmental organizations and the removal of marine litter from Europe’s four regional seas, respectively. Other initiatives focus on assessment, reduction, prevention and management of marine debris under the umbrella of international (the United Nations Environment Programme/Mediterranean Action Plan, the Oslo/Paris Convention) and regional organisations – that is, the Helsinki Commission. There are also a number of international conventions and national regulations that encourage mitigation and management of marine debris. However, it is argued that these initiatives are short-term unsustainable solutions and the long-term sustainable solution would be adoption of circular economy. Similarly, four of the sustainable developmental goals have targets that promote mitigation of marine debris by efficient waste management and practice of 3R. As evident by the Ad Hoc Expert Group on Marine Litter and Microplastics meeting, tackling the marine debris crisis is not a straightforward, one-size-fits-all solution, but rather an integrated and continuous effort required at local, regional and global level.

The Impact of Cash Flows and Earnings on Dividend : Evidence from Southeast Asia countries

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Khairul Anuar Kamardin ◽  
Mohd Shatari Abdul Ghafar ◽  
Wan Adibah Wan Ismail
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Information Content ◽  
Dividend Policy ◽  
Cash Flows ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
The Other ◽  
Future Earnings ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Current Operating

The purpose of this research is to examine the impact of cash flows and earnings in setting the dividend policy in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philipines. A total of 1131 companies from the years 2001-2003 were tested in this research. The research found that about 38 percent of the sample reported either losses reduced or omitted dividends. In contrast, only 35 percent of the 1066 companies did not report losses reduced or omitted dividends. The results found that changes of earnings is significantly associated with dividend changes for all sample companies. However, the research found that the level of cash flows is not significant in explaining the dividend changes in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines. On the other hand, the cash flows are found to be significant in explaining the dividend change in all current operating earnings and cash flows are found to have information content in predicting future earnings for all the sample companies. However, this research can only give earnings in Thailand and not in other countries.

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