Public Knowledge - Information Matters

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.

Education

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.

Opinion

May 26, 2026 Elaine Kong

When Health Claims Travel Faster Than Evidence: CAM Information in Networked Spaces

Health information no longer moves in a neat, straight line from the researcher’s bench to the clinician’s desk to the patient. Today, it ricochets. It travels through search engine auto-completes, TikTok feeds, private WhatsApp groups, and AI-generated summaries long before a patient ever sits down with a doctor or a medical librarian. For cancer patients and survivors exploring Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM), this networked reality creates both real possibility and serious risk. In digital spaces, the challenge isn’t just finding information. It is untangling how certain health claims become highly visible, endlessly repeated, and ultimately trusted.

Translation

May 24, 2026 Bo Hyun Hong

When AI Output Becomes “Good Enough”: Not Everyone Evaluates AI the Same Way

Even when people use the same AI system, they do not evaluate AI-generated information in the same way. For example, imagine two students using Gemini or other generative AI tools for the same assignment and both receive nearly identical answers. One student quickly accepts the response and moves on. The other pauses, checks the information against outside sources, and revises the AI-generated output before using it.

Education Featured

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.