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| Personal Name | Vasco, Victoria Gail N. |
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| Resource Title | From the streets to the screens: an exploratory study on mobile journalism content and practices in Philippine alternative media |
| Date Issued | 10 June 2026 |
| Abstract | Mobile journalism has streamlined news production by enabling journalists to report, edit, and distribute stories using smartphones. This exploratory study examines how Philippine alternative media adapts these practices to vertical-video platforms like TikTok, and whether they effectively sustain critical reportage and foreground marginalized narratives. Guided by gatekeeping theory, multimodality, and Espiritu’s (2017) functions of alternative media, the study employs a mixed-methods approach involving semi-structured interviews with two journalists and two editors from AlterMidya and Pinoy Weekly, alongside a multimodal content analysis of 45 TikTok videos from these news organizations. Findings show that while newsrooms account for platform logics, reporters retain creative freedom with editorial oversight focused on a critical and advocacy-oriented ethos. Multimodal elements enable depictions of complex sociopolitical issues in short form while foregrounding interviews with mass leaders and marginalized sectors, positioning content as a partner of social movements. However, usage of immersive elements and TikTok-specific affordances remain limited. Inconsistent manpower has also caused irregular content production and a lack of branding uniformity. The study concludes that short-form mobile journalism aids alternative media in fulfilling its critical and anti-hegemonic orientation, and recommends further internal trainings, exploration of digital platforms and integration of sectoral organizations in content production. |
| Degree Course | Bachelor of Arts in Journalism |
| Language | English |
| Keyword | Alternative media; Mobile journalism; Multimodality; TikTok; Social media; Gatekeeping theory; Online journalism; Social movements |
| Material Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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