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Book Chapters & Journal Articles

I am a social science scholar researching the interrelationships of technology, communication, and gender in the global south. I study communicators, messages, and audiences using humanistic, interpretive, and socio-cultural lenses. 

​Book Chapters

  • Labor, J., Sayuno, C.M. (2024). Co-constructing the Young Filipino Gamer: Mobile Gaming and Media Experiences in the Philippines. In: Yee, A.Z.H. (eds) Mobile Media Use Among Children and Youth in Asia. Mobile Communication in Asia: Local Insights, Global Implications. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-2282-5_3

  • Labor, J. and San Pascual, M.R.S. (2023). Pakikipagkapwa in the LGBTQIA+ movement for the enactment of the SOGIE Equality Bill. In P.Pain (Ed.) Global LGBTQ activism: Social media, digital technologies, and protest mechanisms (pp.143-162). Routledge. 

  • Labor, J. & San Pascual, M. R. (2022). Online discourse framing LGBTQIA+ student activism in the Philippines. In P. Pain (Ed.), LGBTQ digital cultures: A global perspective (pp. 24–47). Routledge.

  • Labor, J. (2021). Technographic Presentations in Mobile Dating Apps among Metro Manila Young Adults. In hindi nangyari dahil wala sa social media: Interogasyon ng Kulturang New Media sa Pilipinas (pp. 168-187). Ateneo de Manila University Press.

 

Scopus and WOS-indexed Journal Articles

  • Labor, J. S., & Agonos, M. J. M. (2025). Queer religiosity through place-making and pakikipagkapwa: an ethnographic study of the LGBTS Christian Church in the Philippines. Journal of Gender Studies, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2025.2467880    

  • Embate, J. M. L., & Labor, J. S. (2025). Situating queerness in Filipino experience: The bakla, the parlor, and the paglaladlad. Sexualities, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607251323731

  • Alcazaren, H.K. G. & Labor, J.S. (2025). Queering teacher identity: Filipino LGBTQ+ teachers’ self-disclosure of their sexual identity in the classroom. Philippine Humanities Review, 25(1), 147-164. https://journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/phr/article/view/10455/9266

  • Labor, J., Samonte, C., & Guzman, E. (forthcoming). Engagements and Entanglements in LGBTQ+ Hashtag Activism: The Case of Online Pride Celebrations in the Philippines. Plaridel Journal of Communication, Media, and Society.

  • Solis, R. J. C., Labor, J. S., Samonte, C. J., & Cox, C. A. R. (2024). Mediatization of care for MSM living with HIV by government and civil society organizations in the Philippines during the COVID-19 pandemic. Media Asia, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/01296612.2024.2429404

  • Anonuevo, R., Labor, J.S. & Digo, G. (2024). Lived experiences of gay and bisexual teachers: The case of basic education teachers in rural Philippines. Kasetsart Journal of Social Sciences, 45(4), 1217-1228. https://kasetsartjournal.ku.ac.th/abstractShow.aspx?param=YXJ0aWNsZUlEPTg1NDV8bWVkaWFJRD05MjQ3&from=5

  • Alcazaren, H. K. G. & Labor, J.S. (2023). Queered affordances: Gender expressions of Filipino TikTok content creators. Plaridel. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.52518/2023-07aznlbr

  • Labor, J., Aseo, K. & Reyes, M.T.M. (2022). Cohesion and dissociation framing of labor migration in Philippine presidents’ Labor Day Speeches (1974 to 2016). Humanities Diliman, 19 (2), 65-93.   

  • Labor, J., Samonte, C.J. & Bana, N. (2022). Othering within the gay dating community? Tensions in gender identity representations between Filipino gays and the bakla in mobile dating applications. Journal of Asian Pacific Communication. https://benjamins.com/catalog/japc.00094.lab

  • Samonte, CJ. & Labor, J. (2022). Are the youth prepared for earthquakes? Subjective knowledge, risk perception, and mitigation behaviors among the youth in Metro Manila, Philippines. Disaster Advances, 15(7), 47-54.

  • Labor, J. S., & Latosa, A. C. (2021). Locked down queer love: intimate queer online relationships during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Gender Studies, 31(6), 770–781. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2021.1979482

  • Labor, J. & Alcazaren, H. K. G. (2021). Queered online pandemic relationships: Mobile expressions of intimacies, care, and emotion work. Plaridel. https://doi.org/10.52518/2021.18.2-02labalc

  • Labor, J. (June, 2020). Mobile Sexuality: Presentations of Young Adults in Dating Apps. Plaridel: A Journal of Communication and Media, 17 (1): 259-290. https://doi.org/10.52518/2020.17.1-09labor

  • Labor, J. (2018). Role of Art Education in Peace Building Efforts among Out-of-School Youth affected by Armed Conflict in Zamboanga City, Philippines. Journal of International Development, 30 (7): 1186-1202. DOI: 10.1002/jid.3392

  • Labor, J. (2017). Constructs of Development from inside the DevCom syllabi. International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies, 13 (2): 23-44. DOI: 10.21315/ijaps2017.13.2.2

  • Labor, J. (2017). Filipino College Students’ Views on the Value of Physical Appeal to Political Leadership. The South East Asian Journal of Management, 11 (1): 25-43 DOI: 10.21002/sea/v11i1.7736

Peer reviewed journal articles

  • Digo, G.S. & Labor, J.S. (2023). Effectiveness of online colloquia in improving the research dissemination skills of graduate students. ASEAN Journal of Open and Distance Learning, 14(2), 42-53.

  • Labor, J. (2022). Are young adults sensual in mobile dating apps? Constructed sensual scripts among Filipino youth. Talastasan: A Philippine Journal of Communication and Media Studies, 1(2), 1-13. https://talastasan.wixsite.com/talastasan/current-issue

  • Labor, J. (2020). Don’t hate me cause I’m beautiful: Attributions of successes and failures in mobile dating application use. PCS Review. https://www.philscomsoc.org/labor-pcs-2020

  • Labor, J, et al. (2018). Book chapters at the Encyclopedia of Philippine Art. Manila, Philippines: Cultural Center of the Philippines.

  • Labor, J. (2017). Filipino Student Council Heads’ Leadership Frames: A Phenomenographic Inquiry. Journal of Student Leadership, 1 (1): 25-35.

  • Samonte, C.J., Reyes, J.A., & Labor, J. (2016). Motivated Swipes: Influence of Tinder Users’ Self-Presentation and Deceptive Presentation to Online Dating Communication Behaviors. Antorcha, 3 (2): 99-122.

  • Labor, J. (2015). Communicating brand differentiation among city and town OBGYNs. Luz Y Saber, 9 (1 & 2): 11-26.

  • Labor, J., Macasero, C., & Castelo, J. (2015). Is Entertainment the Key? Creativity and Emotional Engagement as Factors to Buying Behavior for Globe Tattoo’s “Defy Expectation” TV Commercial. Journal of Communication Arts,  33 (2): 8-18.

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