ORCID Profile
0000-0001-7269-0184
Current Organisation
Monash University
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Research Topics
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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Migrant cultural studies | Media studies | Communication and media studies
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
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Publications
“Come On, Put Viber, We Can Drink Coffee Together”: Performing (Im)mobile Intimacy in Turbulent Times Among Aging Migrants
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 21-04-2022
DOI: 10.1093/CCC/TCAC011
Abstract: This paper critically examines how elderly people from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse(CALD) backgrounds in Victoria, Australia use visual-based platforms in navigating the lockdown in Melbourne, Australia. Based on conducting remote interviews among 15 participants in 2020, the findings show digital practices as integral to forge and maintain cultural identities and social connectedness. Using the mobilities perspective to interrogate digital behaviours, I coin the term ‘(im)mobile intimacy’ to articulate a sense of closeness enabled, felt and negotiated through modes of movements and stasis in and with online platforms. I contend that differential mediated mobilities and immobilities are informed by social, contextual, and technological factors, revealing the textures of affective and relational dimensions of enacting mobile intimacy. In sum, by locating both movements and stasis in digital environments, this paper sheds light on the (re)production of exclusion during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Between existential mobility and intimacy 5.0: translocal care in pandemic times
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 16-08-2023
DOI: 10.1177/01634437221119295
Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has reconfigured every social, political, economic and cultural aspect of modern society. Millions of people have been stuck in lockdown within and across borders, national and regional terrains, in their homes and worse places. At this time of unprecedented change and ‘stuckedness’, digital communication technologies have served as a lifeline to forge and nurture communication, intimate ties and a sense of continuity and belongingness. But being stuck and simultaneously virtually mobile has brought many difficulties, tensions and paradoxes. In this paper we discuss first insights from a study with 15 members of the older Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) population in Victoria, Australia to explore experiences of being physically stuck and virtually mobile. We find practices of translocal care – ways of caring for distant others through digital technologies, has been made more complex by the pandemic and shaped by two dynamics: networked collective ‘existential mobility’, and a quantification of feeling that we call ‘intimacy 5.0’.
‘Hey, I like ur videos. Super relate!’ Locating sisterhood in a postcolonial intimate public on YouTube
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 29-04-2020
Cultures of (im)mobile entanglements
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-09-2023
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Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2016
'Hey, I like ur videos. Super relate!' Locating sisterhood in a postcolonial intimate public on YouTube
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 24-06-2020
Abstract: This paper re-examines YouTube as a site of feminine, networked, and intimate sociality among Filipino women online. We unpack this by identifying how commenters on YouTube engage with the performativity of an intimate relationship between a Filipina and her foreign husband on YouTube. Extending Mina Roces’ concept of ‘local sisterhood’ in the digital context, we coin the term ‘online sisterhood’ to articulate the erse ways through which Filipino women engage with interracial intimacies in the realm online communication. By conducting a thematic analysis of comments on a popular YouTube channel of a Filipina married to a Caucasian man, we uncover the dimensions of an unfolding online sisterhood as aspirational, relatable, regulatory, and defensive modalities. We argue that these frames are informed by gendered, racialized, and even class-based aspirations and contestations tied to Philippine postcolonial history and society. Ultimately, as a site for feminine sociality and intimacy, YouTube also becomes a site for constructing, reinforcing as well as countering the stereotypical representations of Filipino women in a networked and postcolonial space.
Researching (im)mobile lives during a lockdown: Reconceptualizing remote interviews as field events
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 14-03-2023
DOI: 10.1177/13678779231157428
Abstract: This article foregrounds the benefits and challenges of deploying remote interviews to investigate the digital practices of older adults from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) backgrounds during a series of stay-at-home orders in in 2020 and 2021 in Victoria, Australia. By critically examining the employment of technologically mediated data collection (via video and phone call), we reconceptualize remote fieldwork as a collection of ethnographically significant field events. We draw on the socio material approach to map the impact of human–digital assemblage on the processes, possibilities and limits of collecting data remotely. The study reveals the ways participants' differing digital access, competencies, and social relations engender and undermine methodological interventions. Indeed, it offers a nuanced perspective on deploying remote fieldwork especially among older migrants in an increasingly digital world.
Performing “digital labor bayanihan”: strategies of influence and survival in the platform economy
Publisher: FapUNIFESP (SciELO)
Date: 08-2021
Abstract: Abstract Drawing from experience of platform labor in one of the largest labor supplying countries, the Philippines, the paper demonstrates the role of an emerging labor category – that of digital labor influencers – who promote the viability of platform labor locally amid its precarious and ambiguous conditions. Through participant observation in Facebook groups, analysis of YouTube channels and videos, and interviews with digital labor influencers and workers, we present insights into the interventions that these influencers use, anchoring their strategies on what we call performing “digital labor bayanihan”: (a)coachingworkers on the “possibilities” of the platform economy and on how to navigate its structural ambiguities, (b) by acting as “agencies”, they aid workers tospan boundariesand fluidly move across platforms and job types to mitigate labor arbitrage and labor seasonality and (c)bridging geographically dispersed workers, which allow them to form a supportive space where opportunities for labor are exchanged and debated. We argue that these affective strategies attend to Filipino workers’ labor aspirations through a community-oriented strategy encapsulated in a distinct Filipino cultural value bayanihan, which then shapes the collective “anchoring” of platform workers to navigate a precarious market. We explore the transactional nature underlying this “producer-audience” relationship, the activation of trust and influence through personalized practices and mediated encounters, and the power dynamic underlying these engagements. The paper shows that these strategies also set norms and standards in this largely unregulated sector, playing a role in how labor mobility or precarity are organized locally amid “planetary labor markets”.
The Paradox of a Mobile Society: Situating Cultural Studies in the Global South Context
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 15-11-2023
DOI: 10.1177/13678779221134308
Abstract: This provocation presents a critical reflection on the role of cultural studies in examining the consequences of an increasingly global and digital society. More specifically, I extend and situate the inquiry within the new mobilities paradigm, underlining how everyday personal, familial and social interactions have been shaped by the widespread uptake of digital technologies among migrants and their distant networks. Here I centre the transnational and networked home as a critical site of performing, embodying and negotiating linkages beyond borders. Importantly, reflecting on situating cultural studies within the context of the global South, I underscore the paradox of everyday, intimate and transnational practices as symptomatic of the operations of a neo-colonial and global economy. In doing so, this approach sheds light on advancing cultural studies as an intellectual and political inquiry on rethinking mobility justice in a globalising and networked society.
Elastic carework: the cost and contradictions of mobile caregiving in a transnational household
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-12-2020
Book Review: Leah Williams Veazey, Migrant mothers in the digital age: Emotion and belonging in migrant maternal online communities
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 28-12-2023
‘Without technology we’d be very stuck’: Ageing migrants’ differential (im)mobile practices during a lockdown
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 24-04-2023
DOI: 10.1177/1329878X221095582
Abstract: Ubiquitous mobile communication technologies have played an integral role in the way people navigated forced physical immobilities produced through restrictive measures during a pandemic. This paper critically investigates how 15 ageing people from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) backgrounds in Victoria, Australia used a range of digital communication technologies and online platforms to cope during the 2020 lockdown. The study deploys the mobilities lens (Urry, 2007) in analysing a data set based on conducting remote and in-depth interviewing. It foregrounds how everyday and multi-scalar digital behaviours afford cultural and social connectedness, reflecting erse forms of care practices. However, forced immobile practices emerged as shaped by disproportionate network capital. In sum, this study puts forward a nuanced perspective in understanding the scales and textures of (im)mobile practices of ageing migrants during a lockdown in Australia.
Related Organisations
University Of The Philippines Open University Faculty Of Education
Location: Philippines
Related Funding Activities
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE230101380
Start Date: 07-2023
End Date: 07-2026
Amount: $408,106.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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