How it all started
Jim is a doctoral student of communication at the University of the Philippines OU. His ongoing coursework investigating the many facets of communication has resulted in this blog. On this site, he discusses and comments on emerging topics in politics, culture, society, and technology from a communications lens. In 2024, his interest in the intersectional dimension of the social sciences culminated in his debut nonfiction, Own The Libs: Politics is the New Personality.
Academic profile and research interest
Prior to starting his doctorate at UPOU, Jim earned a Master of Business Administration degree at Eastern New Mexico University and a Bachelor of Arts in Broadcast Communication at the University of the Philippines Diliman. His research interests include conspiracy theories in the digital age, social psychology, and political communication and mobilization.
Professional history
The author has been an industry professional for 15 years, with experience in various disciplines such as journalism, public relations, social media, marketing, and corporate communications. Jim currently heads up brand and communications for an Ottawa-based SaaS company.
Instead of healing society through knowledge, information has been weaponized to topple regimes, sway elections, and fracture nations.
If the role of information is to determine our reality, disinformation distorts it.
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