"Douchestrados": Netizen enclaves, intellectualist elitism and communicative capitalism in Philippine cyberspace

Hansley Juliano & Matthew David OrdoñezDepartment of Political Science, School of Social SciencesAteneo de Manila University, Philippines

"Douchestrados”: Netizen Enclaves, Intellectualist Elitism and Communicative Capitalism in Philippine Cyberspace

A question of “political elitism”

Why the Ilustrados, still?

Ilustrados and the Contemporary Philippine Middle Class

Ilustrados and the Contemporary Philippine Middle Class• Post-Marcos middle-class politics (ideological and

multi-sectoral in approach) proliferated via NGOs/civil society from 1986-2001 (Pinches 2010).

• Classed and professionalized distinctions among civil society actions and movements (Magadia 2003) partitioned middle-class politics from 2001-2010, especially during EDSA II and EDSA III (Bello 2001; Malig 2001; Severino 2001; Banta 2014).

Technology and Political Action

Technology and Political Action

• Pertierra (2012) suggests that, contrary to current sentiment, the usage of technology in political advocacy (which exploded since EDSA II in 2001) are not intrinsically “progressive”.

Digital Philippines: A Paradox?

antiPINOY’s “Hatred of the Filipino”

“Enclaves within Enclaves” (Yu 2014)

“The Great Schism”: Clash of egos

“Get Real Philippines”

A new Schism: CoRRECT Movement

Secular Vanguards: The Case of FF

Appraisals of Subjects

Not much difference, really.

“Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add:

the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.”- Marx, The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte