Rowena Capulong Reyes

Far Eastern University · Arts and Sciences

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 mélange of manifold incongruous lifestyles and a spatial condition. Thistheoretical proposition claims that public spaces are c...

The literature on public space is bifurcated between two interpretations: on the one hand, the pessimistic school which predict an increased social control and eroded public life inside privatized and highly regulated public spaces and, on the other, the optimistic school which argues that enabling conditions make spatial regulations sire a diverse...

ar Eastern University-Institute of Arts and Sciences, through its Department of Communication, with academic partners, Atma Jaya Catholic University, University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce, University of the Philippines-Mindanao, Cavite State University, and Visayas State University, will hold the 1st FRAMEwork Asia-Pacific Communication Confer...

The purpose of this study is to define and describe the Lentera Anak Foundation's (YLA) usage of communication methods. YLA is a social organization that works to fulfill children's rights in Indonesia and regulate issues that affect children. Researchers chose YLA because they are interested in public communication efforts such as the #SatuPuntung...

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...

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-p...

—The emergence of social media is undeniable. With the amount of people going online for faster communication, certain things go viral on the internet in just a short span of time. These things may either make or break a reputation of person or an organization. Cebu Pacific Air, Philippine’s leading airline, encountered a lot of incidents resulting...

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 curr...

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 curr...