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This article explores how Jessica Lee’s Probinsya series transforms YouTube travel vlogging into a form of public knowledge production. Viewed through a foreigner’s perspective, familiar places are reintroduced with renewed curiosity and appreciation, encouraging Filipinos to see their own communities in a different light. By documenting provincial life and circulating it through digital media, Probinsya functions as a cultural archive that preserves, shares, and reactivates knowledge about Filipino culture. The series demonstrates how travel content can become a meaningful space for producing, remembering, and making cultural knowledge accessible to the public.

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June 22, 2026 Ziv Margareth Fontanilla

Distorted Memory In the Digital World: The Vulnerability of Online Public Memory in the Philippines

Journalism is, by design, factual yet subjective to its meaning. Individuals favor the truth when it speaks for their personal interests—a quiet authority influencing what the public comes to accept as the truth. Set against the backdrop of political media in the Philippines, the public themselves maneuvers the normalities within the ideology of what is socially accepted and ethically right. Media were the vehicle to arrive at the concept of truth in power within a public discourse. And the newsroom is not by choice, flooded by information offering different perspectives contrastingly, forcing journalists to navigate a constant stream of competing narratives, biases, and interpretations in pursuit of engaging yet accurate reporting. The challenges of journalism were not limited to the premises of the newsroom, instead, it extended beyond and into broader political and institutional structures that influence how information is produced and circulated.

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June 8, 2026 Misty Trunnell

Parents Want Help with Clearing Information Landmines: Information Literacy Programs for Parents of Children Under Twelve

Considering the ubiquity of devices available to children and content created for them, parents of children 12 and younger should be targeted as a specific group for new information literacy programs. A May 2025 Pew Research Center survey reported that parents of children 12 and younger allow their children to use various devices (TVs, tablets, smart phones) to access platforms (YouTube and social media), for reasons such as entertainment, learning, staying connected, and calming down. Parents of the same survey also reported that smartphones and content created for social media is more harmful that beneficial and that tech companies and law makers should do more to prevent harms. They also reported challenges about deciding what to allow and how to manage screentime for their children. Many reported they felt a need to improve their decision making related to screentime and content. Today, families are less likely to receive instruction and support from libraries to evaluate technology and content for children than in the past due to more option to access devices and information.

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June 4, 2026 Kyle Samantha Genisera

Targeting the Filipino Consumer: Data-Driven Marketing, Personalization, and Privacy in Philippine Integrated Marketing Communication

Have you ever searched for a product online and then suddenly seen advertisements for it everywhere? Many Filipinos experience this every day while browsing Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Shopee, Lazada, or even Google. A simple search for shoes, gadgets, skincare products, or food deliveries can quickly turn into a flood of personalized advertisements across multiple platforms. This experience may feel convenient because consumers discover products related to their interests, but it also reveals how modern marketing depends heavily on personal data. In today’s digital environment, companies no longer simply advertise to broad audiences. Instead, they study consumer behavior, collect digital information, and create targeted campaigns designed for specific individuals. This shift has transformed Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC) in the Philippines and raised important questions about privacy, ethics, and consumer awareness.

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June 1, 2026 Dionar Acosta

When Filipino-ness Became a Conversation: Digital Storytelling and Public Knowledge in the Classroom

What began as a classroom viewing activity became a deeper conversation about what it means to be Filipino. Through digital storytelling, students did not simply consume cultural knowledge—they actively questioned, negotiated, and participated in its production.

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May 31, 2026 Mary Jeanine Santiago

Who Wrote This Story? Responsible Use of AI Tools, Authorship, and Accountability in Student Journalism

Have you ever been accused by a professor of using AI (Artificial Intelligence)? The idea of being blamed for using the tool can be a modern form of an offense that lowers a writer’s integrity. I once had a friend back in my senior year of high school, a fellow student and aspiring journalist, who was told by our teacher, with a deadly look of certainty, that her article had been written with QuillBot. This reflects a prominent unease in journalism and academia: how the use of AI challenges credibility, authorship, and accountability. According to a report by the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Foundation in 2026, 83 percent of students in the Philippines have used generative AI for educational purposes. Moreover, the report also claims that while student usage is high, institutional adoption lags behind the rapid widespread use of AI. Only 73 percent of educators in the Philippines use generative AI for teaching, and an even lower 42 percent utilize it for their own writing. It is also stated that AI engagement is widely based on convenience rather than deeper and more rooted learning.

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May 17, 2026 Azeez Adeoye

The Art of Scholarly Research in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: Assessing, Organising, and Using Academic Literature

Research is a lifelong intellectual endeavour that transcends academic qualifications, professional status, and social background. Whether one is an undergraduate student, postgraduate scholar, healthcare practitioner, policymaker, entrepreneur, volunteer, or independent learner, research remains indispensable to growth, innovation, and societal advancement. Indeed, every meaningful improvement in human endeavour is rooted in the ability to seek, evaluate, and apply credible knowledge. Research, therefore, is not merely an academic requirement; it is a systematic and continuous process of building upon existing knowledge to solve emerging challenges and expand the frontiers of understanding.

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May 15, 2026 Dionar Acosta

Kapwa and Believability: How YouTube Content Becomes Public Knowledge

This article explores how YouTube content becomes believable enough to shape public knowledge. Drawing from Filipino Personhood Theory, it argues that believability emerges through Kapwa, Pakikiramdam, and Kagandahang-loob—forms of relational trust, communicative sensitivity, and moral credibility that extend beyond algorithms and visibility metrics.

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May 3, 2026 Nicole A. Cooke

When Censorship Breaks Mirrors: Why Critical Cultural Literacy Depends on Diverse Stories

Imagine a fourteen-year-old sitting on the floor of a library, flipping through a book they found almost by accident. The main character shares something deeply personal with them. For the first time, their life is not treated as unusual or controversial. It is simply there. Then the book is removed. No announcement. No explanation. Just absence. The message lands anyway. Your story is a problem. This moment captures what is often missing from public conversations about censorship. When books disappear, the impact is not abstract. It shapes how young people understand themselves, how they understand others, and how they learn to think.

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May 1, 2026 Ronald Andoh-Kwaw

From Keyword to Conversation: What LLMs Change (and Don’t) About Library Discovery in Ghana’s Colleges of Education

Picture a student-teacher at a College of Education in Ghana, preparing a lesson on early childhood literacy. She approaches the library catalogue terminal, types a few keywords, “early childhood reading Ghana”, and receives a handful of results, most of them older texts with limited relevance to the Ghanaian classroom. She leaves with less than she came for. Now imagine the same student interacting with a library interface powered by a large language model: she types, in her own words, “I need materials about teaching children to read in Ghanaian primary schools.” The system responds conversationally, surfaces related resources, and asks whether she would like materials that address mother-tongue-based multilingual education. Something has clearly shifted. But as a college librarian in Ghana, I find myself asking: how deep does that shift really go and for whom?