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Raul Pertierra
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Disorder and the disinformation society : the social dynamics of information networks and software
2019
Book review of Marshall, Jonathan Paul, Goodman, James, Zowghi, Didar, & da Rimini, Francesca (2015). Disorder and the Disinformation Society: The Social Dynamics of Information Networks and Software. London, UK: Routledge; 310 pages. nonPeerReviewed
Mobile phones, identity and discursive intimacy
2005
This paper deals with the sociocultural effects of mobile phones in Philippine society. In particular it looks at how mobile phones have affected notions of identity and the rise of the sexual subject. It also deals with the political possibilities and implication of this new communicative technology in a society with previously poorly developed telephonic and other communicative technologies. Mobile phones allow absent subjects to exercise a daily presence in their communities of origin. This absent presence generates virtual subjects interacting primarily via the mobile phone.
The New Media and Heterotopic Technologies in the Philippines
2008
Information overload is perhaps the most common frustration of our age. It strikes everyone: young and old, educated and uneducated, rich and poor, first world and third world. Human communication has taken on the qualities of the supernatural. Indeed it has surpassed it! Zeus could only rely on Mercury’s speed to convey his commands; presently electronic messages zip around the globe and the universe at the speed of light. No wonder that new communication technologies often evoke notions of the supernatural. This paper deals with some of the unexpected effects of the new communication technologies, in particular for mobile phones. While the mobile has become the icon of connectedness, it a…