Katutubong vlog: Isang pagsusuri sa oryentalismo sa mga vlog tungkol sa iba’t bang Indigenous Cultural Communities/Indigenous People (ICCs/IPs) sa Pilipinas
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Nagbigay ang YouTube ng kakayahan sa mga tao at maging sa mga miyembro ng Indigenous Cultural Communities/Indigenous People (ICCs/IPs) na mag-upload, mag-publish, at manood ng mga video na hindi nangangailangan ng mataas na antas ng teknikal na kasanayan. Gamit ang lente ng Orientalism ni Edward Said, sinuri ng papel na ito ang mga vlog sa YouTube na tumatalakay sa buhay, kultura, at tradisyon ng mga katutubo sa Pilipinas. Sinuri sa papel na ang 20 video ng mga vlogger sa etik at emik na pananaw. Nahahati sa tatlong substansiyal na bahagi ang analisis ng papel: (1) oryentalismo sa emik na pananaw; (2) oryentalismo sa etik na pananaw; at (3) kritikal na paghahambing ng oryentalismo sa emik at etik na pananaw. Nahati sa dalawang seksiyon ang una at pangalawang substansiyal na bahagi ayon sa dalawang uri ng oryentalismo ni Said (1978) na latent at manifest. Sa pamamagitan ng mga vlog, nagkakaroon ng pagkakataon ang mga katutubo na bigyan ng sariling representasyon ang kanilang sarili at magsagawa ng counter-orientalism sa YouTube. Sa kabuuang pag-aaral ng representasyon ng mga katutubo sa YouTube, inaasahan na makapag-ambag ito ng panibago at mas malalim na pang-unawa sa indigenous studies sa Pilipinas.
Abstract
YouTube brings the opportunity for people even to the members of Indigenous Cultural Communities/Indigenous People (ICCs/IPs) to upload, publish, and watch videos that do not require higher technical skills. Using Edward Said’s concept of Orientalism this paper evaluates several vlogs that deal with the life, culture, and tradition of the Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines. This study examined twenty videos of Filipino vloggers from an etic and emic perspective. The analysis is divided into three substantial parts: (1) orientalism in etic perspective; (2) orientalism in emic perspective; and (3) critical comparison of orientalism in etic and emic perspective. The paper looked into the characteristics of latent and manifest orientalism. In YouTube, vlogging gave IPs new ways to practice self-representation and counter-orientalism. This research intends to contribute to a better understanding of digital ethnography and indigenous studies in the Philippines by providing new and in-depth information about the representation of Indigenous Peoples in YouTube.
Eastern Gunslingers: Andrew Cunanan and Seung-Hui Cho in Western Media Imaginary
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Two Asian-Americans, separated by a decade, figured prominently in the United States and global media for perpetrating acts of violence against mainly white American victims. Despite the national, social, sexual, and temporal differences between them, the two individuals were handled in strikingly similar ways by Western media: they were insistently identified as possessing characteristics of their originating national cultures, and their actions were subjected to a type of close scrutiny not applied to other cases of multiple-victim killers.
Using textual analysis, this paper will look at the media coverage expended on the cases of Andrew Cunanan and Seung-Hui Cho, using critiques of Orientalism initiated by Edward Said and developed by a number of non-Western theorists. The typical Western narrative used to explain actuations of Cunanan and Cho will be subjected to the question of whether this attitude toward Oriental Others insists on differentiating them rather than accepting their actions in the manner of their Western counterparts.
