Mobile Media and Social Intimacies in Asia Reconfiguring Local Ties and Enacting Global Relationships

Jason Vincent A. Cabañes is an Associate Professor in Communication and a Research Fellow at De La Salle University—Manila, Philippines. He has a PhD in Communications Studies from the University of Leeds, UK. He researches primarily on the mediation of cross-cultural intimacies and solidarities, with a particular focus on postcolonial multiculturalism. He also does work on digital labor in the Global South. His publications have appeared in top-tier journals such as New Media & Society, the International Journal of Cultural Studies , and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies as well as in edited collections in the field of media and communications studies.

Cecilia S. Uy-Tioco is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at California State University San Marcos, USA. She holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from George Mason University, USA. As an interdisciplinary scholar, her research is primarily engaged in interrogating the relationships between media, culture, and globalization. In particular, she studies the Philippine telecom industry, digital inequality, and the reproduction of power and digital media and transnational Filipino migrants. Her work has been published in Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, Communication Research and Practice , and various edited books.