“The words are not good for the secret meaning, everything always becomes a bit different, as soon as it is put into words, gets distorted a bit, a bit silly—yes, and this is also very good, and I like it a lot, I also very much agree with this, that this what is one man’s treasure and wisdom always sounds like foolishness to another person.” ― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
Statement of the Journalism Studies Association of the Philippines, Inc. (JSAP) On the Proposal of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) to Reframe General Education The Journalism Studies Association of the Philippines, Inc. (JSAP), representing scholars, educators, students and practitioners in journalism and communication, expresses its deep concern over the Commission on Higher Education’s (CHED)… Continue reading JSAP’s Concern over CHED’s ‘reframing’ GE
(Or My Life at UP CMC Graduate School during Nemenzo's Presidency) Last night, Khrysta and I went to the wake of Dr. Francisco Nemenzo at the GT-Toyota Asian Center Auditorium, UP Diliman. I first met Dr. Nemenzo in the late 1990s at a get-together at the residence of then Inter-Press Service (IPS) chief Kunda Dixit.… Continue reading Dodong Nemenzo, the Intellectual Activist
This is one of the academic papers I wrote in graduate school:March 2002 by ©Datu Jamal Ashley Yahya Abbas In 1989, Klaus Krippendorf wrote his The Power Of Communication And The Communication Of Power: Toward An Ethical Theory Of Communication. In this theory, he proposes, “to examine a pathology of communication of which the social use… Continue reading The Bangsa Moro Problem through Krippendorf’s emancipatory theory
Postprandial Musings, 2.0 