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Before I enrolled in AB Journalism, I remember a striking conversation I had with one of my friends’ parent. He asked me why there was a need for journalists if there were individuals who disseminate a seemingly reflection of news-like content online. At that time, I could not argue back as I held a very loose view of the formal practice of journalism. There was a lingering question lost in the conversation: Can the formal practice of journalism be really replaced by an individual practice of information dissemination?

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May 31, 2026 Pauline Alexie Saunar

Facebook is the Internet: How Individuals Depend on Facebook Influencers, Community Groups as Information Sources

There is no love like Filipinos’ love for Facebook. — In the Philippines, it is not Google nor Safari that dominates as the information source, it is Facebook. In 2025, Facebook became one of the top information sources, next to the Internet, 75% of Filipinos rely on it daily for news. Approximately 95.8 million Filipinos use the platform which is an enormous chunk of the entire population. During the pandemic era, netizens formed massive communities inside Facebook. These can be seen in the forms such as but not limited to marketplaces (buy & sell and food vendors), local villages, and fandoms. Filipinos dominate the users of Meta, primarily Facebook and Messenger with a staggering 81.9% relative to its total population. Meeting a Filipino is highly likely on the internet and even more common in Meta platforms.

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May 31, 2026 Shaniah Denisse Quides

A Thousand Ways to Notice You: How Algorithms Shape What We Buy and Believe in The Philippines

In today’s digital world of an attention-driven economy, visibility itself has become a form of marketing power. In many ways, attention has become a valuable currency, traded constantly between users, creators, advertisers, and platforms.

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May 22, 2026 Amelia Haire

Neurodiverse Perceptions of Information Literacy

In many academic and professional settings, IL is treated as something people either possess or lack. Once someone is qualified or trained, they are often assumed to be information literate by default. In contrast, we believe that becoming information literate in the workplace is a continuous, effortful, and highly contextual process, particularly for neurodivergent people, for example, for autistic librarians in the workplace.

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May 13, 2026 John Budd

Information Literacy and Fulfillment: From Past to Present

It was more than fifty years ago that Paul Zurkowski (1974) coined the term “information literacy.” To be sure, education preceded that date in the form of bibliographic instruction, library instruction, and other names. That earlier instruction tended to be concentrated on assisting students and others with the rudiments of searching, locating physical items, and citing the found items properly. Zurkowski signaled a break with the past by his recognition of the complexity of ever-increasing amounts and kinds of information.

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May 1, 2026 Raiyan Bin Reza

Information Warfare Bangladesh

One aspect of the storm that swept through Bangladesh’s political landscape in July and August 2024 has not yet received adequate attention. Behind the sound of gunfire, another war was being waged which was a war of words, images, videos, and algorithms. According to Rumor Scanner, incidents of misinformation increased by 52 percent throughout 2024 compared to the previous year, reaching nearly three thousand. An old video from Pakistan was circulated as an incident in Bangladesh; an AI-generated letter fanned the flames of emotion; and communal tensions were stoked using year-old photos. This is not an isolated incident — it is a well-coordinated information war.

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April 28, 2026 Joseph Ryann Jalagat

AI as Co-Author of Error? Disinformation, Verification, and the Fragility of Knowledge Work

Despite AI’s leverage on knowledge production, management, and storage, this informational revolution introduces a paradox. The expansion of information availability also presents risks of destabilizing knowledge trust. The root of this all leads us to AI hallucination, which produces believable and sophisticated results but is actually contrived and fictitious. It is in this sense that AI not only serves as an aid, but as a co-author of error.

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April 22, 2026 Ronald Yaros

A User’s Digital DIET Overrides Interest in What Gets Read—Can “Smart Story” Structure Bridge Quick Scans and Deep Reading in One Interface?

Have you ever opened something you genuinely wanted to read—only to leave within seconds? This happens even with topics we care about. The problem is not a lack of interest. It is that every user arrives with real-world constraints that shape engagement in the moment. I call this the digital DIET: the mix of available time, environment, individual interests, and device conditions that determines what gets attention, what gets scanned, and what gets ignored.

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March 16, 2026 Yhna Therese Santos

Framing Information Privilege: Multidimensionality, Inequality, and Reform

This Special Issue of Information Matters on Information Privilege and the Cultures of Scholarly Communication centers notions and experiences on information privilege. Perspectives come from a variety of contributors including scholars, information professionals, and academics, where they articulate what information privilege is in a number of ways.

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March 16, 2026 Shannon D. Jones

Put It in a Book: What My Grandmother Taught Me About Information Privilege

One of the most important lessons I have ever learned about information access did not come from a classroom. It came from my grandmother, Priscilla Perkins.