The Network of Interdisciplinary Media and Communication Research (NIMCR) brings together an international group of young scholars from diverse cultural backgrounds, working within and across disciplines, methods, and boundaries. We believe that academic knowledge is best generated collectively.

For this reason, we promote collaborative work that seeks to develop conceptual, methodological, and empirical approaches that expand critical knowledge in the fields of media, communications, and media geographical research both locally, (trans)nationally, and inter-culturally. …

Based on a social scientific approach, our work at NIMCS is guided by five main goals:

• Community. Our first goal is to create a strong, intercultural, and supportive community of young scholars who work together to promote systematic and empirical knowledge in the field of media and communication.
• Collaboration. Our second goal is to promote the importance of research collaboration within and across disciplines and boundaries. This relates not only to theoretical perspectives, but also to methodological approaches to empirical research issues.
• Comparability. …

Unmasking production protocols in creating video learning objects

For the past 10 weeks, Ateneo de Manila has been producing video lectures from esteemed faculty and topic experts as an adjustment to online learning. These lectures are 15–18 minutes long per episode, come with low-bandwidth learning packets that contain PDFs of the lectures, transcripts, and audio only versions.

After the start of the quarantine in the Philippines, I started creating word clouds from the periodic speeches made by Philippines President Duterte. These were broadcast over the public and government owned channel, PTV.

These were generated from the transcripts of the presidential speeches from the following dates: March 12, 16, 30, April 4, and 6, 2020.

Consistent words are: Ako (me, or I), hindi (don’t, shouldn’t, negatory indication of action), baranggay (smallest government unit in the Philippines). Government, police, and patay (dead) are on the next tier. COVID, COVID-19, and coronavirus are around 8 mentions per speech.

China gets…

At the Ultimate All-Stars Weekend
Manila Philippines, 23–24, July 2011

Words and Photos by Aaron Vicencio. Access was provided by
MVP Sports Foundation

Kobe arrived in a private plane from Hong Kong. He had twenty plus pieces of luggage with him, all Louis Vuitton in different sizes and categories. I remember riding on the floor of the Ford E350 in awe. He had a basketball with him throughout the entire trip, the flight attendants told me.

Landscape, memory, and the challenges of drone videography of Marawi City after the siege

Words and Images by Aaron

Words and photos by Aaron Vicencio

Ateneo defeats UP, 89–63 to sweep the first round.

So far no one has solved the Ateneo defensive puzzle. UST came close. UP controlled a half. But the puzzle keeps turning. Ateneo’s deep roster has contributed in their own way through seven games.