Ever wonder how we get to analyze images and make meanings from our perceptions? How we hear the sound of the ambulance and know there’s an emergency nearby? Or how we associate the color yellow to a banana to its ripeness? Here is where Semiotics enters the picture. What is Semiotics? It is a field …
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Bravest Warriors: Overseas Filipino Workers
Oftentimes, Overseas Filipino Workers are seen as people growing trees of money whilst picking from it. However, has it ever crossed our minds how much they’re suffering every day? How every breath, sweat, blood, and tear shed and have dropped from their bodies is equivalent to a leaf from THAT tree? Growing up not having …
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Reaching Unity through Diversity
Now that we are in a diverse era, for us to reach a common ground in integrating economies, industries, markets, cultures, societies, and policies around the world, we need to negotiate with each other, compromise, and make adjustments. When we reach a point of understanding, we are in a place not seen by the naked …
Filipi-Know Your Way
We Filipinos have our own ways of having interpersonal communication with others, and Melba Maggay, in her book “Pahiwatig: Kagawiang pangkomunikasyon ng Filipino”, compiled and chose 10 common grounds of how we engage with such communication. Such as: Pagpapahiwatig, Mensaheng may Tagapamagitan, Pagbubunyag, Pagpapakitang-Giliw, Paglalantad ng Sarili, Tuwirang Pagsasagutan, Pagsisiwalat ng mga Pansariling Impormasyon, Pakikipag-Sosyalan, …
What’s your favorite position?
“The self is constantly under-construction by the society, molded by social interactions and environment”, I’ve stated this in my last blog which is also relevant in this one. In Eleni Andreouli’s “Identity, Positioning and Self-Other Relations”, there were two conceptualizations of positioning that was analyzed. The first one was about the social representation theory which …
Self: A Kaleidoscope in the Making
A wise philosopher once said, you can never step on the same river twice and that the only thing that does not change is change itself, and in relation to that, our self is in a constant spiral that’s open to possible changes, let it be through experiences or through human intervention, for we humans …
Let’s go Digital!
Being at the peak of innovation, everything is just one click and swipe away. Need to know something about our history? Google it. Need to know what’s trending? Go to any social media apps like Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and such. Everything is so convenient now that people take technology for granted and forget the main …
Amazon Rain Forest Fire: Humanity’s road to Armageddon
A planet inhabited by humans, but how human are we? The Amazon Rain Forest, also known as the “Lungs of the World”, is the vessel holding a massive amount of the world’s oxygen. The Amazon was our greatest warrior against the fight with Global Warming, for its ability to absorb carbon from the air and …
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Wanna change the world? Try being rhetoric.
“I think the power of persuasion would be the greatest superpower of all time.” – Jenny Mollen A person who’s good at rhetoric has the ability to persuade, ability to make falsity sound like the truth, the truth to falsity, and has the ability to change the world. This is why during the time of Socrates, …
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Orality and Literacy affecting the Nature of Communication
“Words change Worlds” . Back in my Junior High School days, my friend recommended a book series to me, it was entitled “Percy Jackson and the Olympians”. That was the starting point wherein I was so into Greek mythology that I’ve done minor research about it. Tenth grade then came and our teacher unraveled the …
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Rachell Anne T. Capaning 