Political Change in the Philippines: Studies of Local Politics Preceding Martial Law. Edited by BENEDICT J. KERKVLIET. (Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii, 1974. Pp. 258. $6.00.)

This paper discusses the history of DZLB, the community radio of the University of the Philippines- Los Baños (UPLB) in Laguna, some 63 kilometers away from Manila. It traces the history of the radio under the College of Development Communication (UPLB-DevCom) that started in 1964. It tells the story of how the College of Agriculture Department of Agricultural Information and Communication evolved into the Institute of Development Communication making the UPLB history its backdrop. From UPCA, UPLB metamorphosed during the critical politic al events that culminated in 1972 when martial law was imposed in the Philippines. Witnesses to these unfolding events were the students who have been training in the field of communication and broadcasting. The campus and the communities within the reach of the DZLB radio have served as their laboratories. Through the School-on-Air and other programs, knowledge and information were broadcasted to the DLZB listeners who are farmers, housewives, out-of-school youth and students with the end in view of helping them raise their agricultural produce and eventually increase their income and improve the people’s quality of living. The UPLB-DevCom also plans to have an online television-radio to expand and increase their reach among their listeners and viewers inside and outside of the UPLB campus.

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Democracy Talks in Manila: The Role of Youth Voices in Democracy

10.31752/idea.2021.17 ◽

2021 ◽

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Rule Of Law ◽

Political Change ◽

The Philippines ◽

Democratic Participation ◽

Development Studies ◽

The Rule Of Law ◽

Youth Leaders ◽

The University

There are various challenges to democracy which have worsened during the Covid-19 pandemic. Some countries have experienced democratic backsliding and other problems from the perspective of democratic participation, human rights and the rule of law. To discuss these issues in the context of the Philippines, a webinar entitled ‘Democracy Talks in Manila: The Role of Youth Voices in Democracy’ was organized in December 2020 by the Embassy of Sweden in Manila, International IDEA and the Program on Social and Political Change at the University of the Philippines Center for Integrative and Development Studies (UP CIDS). The webinar was part of the Swedish Government’s Drive for Democracy initiative, and among the participants were students, youth leaders and youth advocates of democracy and human rights.

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Libraries and their role in transitional justice in the Philippines

IFLA Journal ◽

10.1177/0340035218805769 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 45 (1) ◽

pp. 5-15 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Iyra S. Buenrostro ◽

Johann Frederick A. Cabbab

Keyword(s):

Transitional Justice ◽

Task Force ◽

The Philippines ◽

Martial Law ◽

University Library ◽

Memory Work ◽

The University

The stories of the University Library of the University of the Philippines Diliman, Task Force Detainees of the Philippines, and Bantayog ng mga Bayani (Monument to the Heroes), the libraries that survived during and after the martial law years in the Philippines under the late strongman President Ferdinand Marcos, are told as part of the country’s direction towards transitional justice. The authors argue that the Philippines is experiencing an ‘extended’ transition and that libraries play an important role as memory activists. The narratives and experiences of the librarians and staff show various memory work, reconciliation activities, redress practices, and collaborations.

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Entertainment publics in the Philippines

Media International Australia ◽

10.1177/1329878x20985960 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1329878X2098596

Author(s):

Anna Cristina Pertierra

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Popular Culture ◽

Digital Technologies ◽

The Philippines ◽

Political Capital ◽

Martial Law ◽

Entertainment Media ◽

Digital Era ◽

The Media ◽

Entertainment Television

Since the late 1980s, Filipino entertainment television has assumed and maintained a dominance in national popular culture, which expanded in the digital era. The media landscape into which digital technologies were launched in the Philippines was largely set in the wake of the 1986 popular movement and change of government referred to as the EDSA revolution: television stations that had been sequestered under martial law were turned over to family-dominated commercial enterprises, and entertainment media proliferated. Building upon the long development of entertainment industries in the Philippines, new social media encounters with entertainment content generate expanded and engaged publics whose formation continues to operate upon a foundation of televisual media. This article considers the particular role that entertainment media plays in the formation of publics in which comedic, melodramatic and celebrity-led content generates networks of followers, users and viewers whose loyalty produces various forms of capital, including in notable cases political capital.

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