Abstract-Background:The optimists among the public space scholarship argue that instead of a well-organized, carefully concerted and highly controlled urban social life, what unfolds in regulated public spaces are a mé lange of manifold incongruous lifestyles and a spatial condition. Thistheoretical proposition claims that public spaces are contested spaces offering a potent description of everyday reality in privatized public spaces like the shopping mall. But is a similar mechanics available outside the developed world? Objective: The study looked into the empirical validity of the urban spatial experiences of a developing country like the Philippines. Method: Case study method is employed. Verbal and observational data were analyzed using the process of pattern matching. Findings: Evidence indicates that oppositional politics exists in the public spaces of the privatized built environments. And this oppositional politics springs from three competing conceptualizations: the "by us", "for us", and "up to us" mentalities. Lessons Learned: Public space is not just about regulation; it is also about opposition. But unlike traditional forms of oppositional politics, these are not organized conquest of mall spaces; instead, they simply are individual acts of passive defiance.
Abstract-Stuart Hall's Reception Study Theory explains that the reader / viewer interpret the meaning of the text based on their individual cultural background and life experiences. In essence, the meaning of a text is not inherent within the text itself, but is created within the relationship between the text and the reader/ viewer. The purpose of the current research is to find out the perceptions of Intramuros based Audiences on Indie films. A total of 152 Communication students were selected through a non-probability, purposive sampling. A two part survey questionnaire was used to measure the knowledge, attitude and practices of Communication students towards independent films. Pearson Correlation and comparison of means, cross-tabulations, and frequency tables were used. Frequency distributions were used to compute their response. Readiness of the respondents to embrace this new industry has been shown in this research study.
Abstract-Uses and Gratifications theory explains that a person uses a particular kind of media because of the satisfaction a person can get from it. Applied in social media, the current research aims to understand the usefulness of Twitter to the students during typhoon. A total of 124 students from the Intramuros-based schools were selected through a non-probability-purposive sampling. A descriptive analysis was used to measure the answers to a 47-item questionnaire. They are motivated to use Twitter during typhoon to communicate with their family and friends. The current research found that students use Twitter more whenever there is a typhoon. Students use their mobile phones in logging in to their accounts. The current research also found that Twitter is the students first source of information regarding typhoons and the top information seek by students on Twitter is the announcement of class suspension.
Privatized public spaces like modern shopping malls apply various spatial regulations to its mall goers that ultimately, according to scholars of critical tradition, undermines the “social” in socialization during human interactions. This recurring idea is prevalent and proven in a number of developed countries while, on the other hand, research on the same outcome in developing countries such as the Philippines is lacking. Based on local experiences, there is an indication of the possibility of an active associational life within the regulated spaces of the Philippine private shopping mall. This paper tries to determine the circumstances under which spatial governmentality sustains social interaction. Using Robert Yin’s case study method, it delves into the spatial practice of mall users in three shopping malls in the city of Manila. Data are gathered from field observations and interviews with the managers and security officers of the three malls. Purposive mall users can evade the disciplinary, deterrence, and exclusionary techniques of the shopping mall and thus pursue their own social activities and interests in the presence of three facilitators: persons, locales and occasions. The cases involved in this study reveal that efforts to control social activities in mall premises can also generate unintended outcomes, that is, activate social activities.
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