President Rodrigo Roa Duterte. His entry into politics was messianic. His predecessor an heir to his parents’ legacy, a beneficiary of continuing public regard for a family name attached to a collective victory over a vicious dictatorship. He came at a time when government was colored “yellow” — and its shade fading from good governance…
Eugenia Sephera in the book Understanding New Media discusses how Web 2.0, which includes social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, democratizes politics and has become an alternative to mainstream media. Journalism holds a political function which is to help shape public opinion and make governments accountable for their actions (Habermas, 1996, cited in Sephera,…
Social media has seen the peak of citizenship participation. It has challenged barriers to the full exercise of freedom of speech. What on one end is a platform for self-expression is a catalyst for community action on the other. Social media has become a convenient internet street to where citizens actively take their issues and…
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