The ASEAN region is now living in the information age. The age where information is the new commodity, and A. Flor ( Developing Societies 13) refers to it as the “primary resource.” The diverse culture, political systems, and economic policies created a region that is in various states of agricultural…

ASEAN was founded in 1967, and this amalgamation of Southeast Asian nations evolved to become the ASEAN Community in 2015. This Community is comprised of ASEAN Political-Security Community, ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community, and ASEAN Economic Community. Information and communication can be considered as the backbone and link of member-states towards this…

The #TrashTag Challenge is a social mobilization initiative that started in 2019 by Byron A Román that encouraged teens to clean a part of their community. It started to gain traction among netizens which began a worldwide trend. Let us try to examine this social movement. THE SOCIAL PROBLEM Environmental…

Critical discourse points its lens toward society. Thinkers from this school of thought look into the social order, power, and linguistic dominance (West & Turner, 2010), and examine how social players interact and manipulate these elements. Williamson et al. (2018) see it as an approach to inspect the dominant and…

Humans traverse through different worlds as we interact with our environment. The worlds of signs, communication and culture overlap and contribute to human experience. Communication encompasses both symbols and culture; signs are generated and transmitted through interaction within the bounds of culture created by communication. As we navigate these three…

What is love? — You might have seen it on a slam book or from a cheesy quote on a postcard. You might even have a canned answer for the hardest question humanity has faced: WHAT IS LOVE? Writers tried to verbalize it with their works, painters attempted to capture the answer through their…

Photo by Christa Dodoo on Unsplash Companies like Adobe are joining the revolution to go paperless. You can now sign, edit and mark a document using their software. In our office, we now have electronic pay slips. I also opted for e-statements from banks and other bills because it is…

Why is life not giving what I want? You are here because you are having the same thought in your mind. It whispers with its bodiless voice, “ Why is life not giving what I want? Why do other people have these great things and not me? …