My research examine the intersections of digital cultures and marginality. I examine the historical and social conditions surrounding the use of digital media by marginal populations, their representations in digital spaces, and how these technological engagements reshape politics, society, and marginality.

a. Book
Lim, S.S. & Soriano, C. (eds.) (2016). Asian Perspectives on Digital Culture. Emerging Phenomena, Enduring Concepts. London & New York: Routledge

In progress: Soriano, C.R. & Cabalquinto, E.C. YouTube and Social Transactions in the Philippines (to be published by Amsterdam University Press). 

b. Peer reviewed journal articles 
Soriano, C. & Cabanes, J.V. (2020). Entrepreneurial solidarities: Social media collectives and Filipino digital platform workers. Social Media + Society [Special issue on Marginality and Social Media. doi.org/10.1177/2056305120926484 [open access]

Cabalquinto, E. & Soriano, C. R. (2020). 'Hey, I like your videos, super relate!' Locating sisterhood in an online intimate public on YouTube. Information, Communication, and Society. Online First. [Read postprint here]

Tintiangko, J. & Soriano, C.R. (2020). Coworking Spaces in the Global South: Local Articulations and Imaginaries. Journal of Urban Technology, 27(1), 67-85.  [Read postprint here]

Soriano, C.R., David, C., and Atun, J. (2019). Crystallizing the official narrative: News discourses about the killings from the Philippine government’s campaign against illegal drugs. Journalism: Theory, Practice, Critique. Online First. [Read preprint here]

Soriano, C.R. (2019). Communicative assemblages of the ‘pisonet’ and the translocal context of  ICT for the ‘have-less’: Innovation, inclusion, stratification. International Journal of Communication, 13, 4692-4701. [open access]

Soriano, C.R., Davies, H. & Hjorth, L. (2019). Social surveillance and Let’s Play: A regional case study of gaming in Manila slum communities. New Media & Society, 21, (10): 2119-2139

Atun, J.M., Mendoza, R., David, C., Cossid, R.P., Soriano, C.R. (2019). The Philippines’ anti-drug campaign: Spatial and temporal patterns of killings linked to drugs. International Journal of Drug Policy, 73, 100-111. 

Bernadas, J.M. & Soriano, C.R. (2019). Online privacy behavior among youth in the global South: A closer look at diversity of connectivity and information literacy. Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, 17(1),17-30.

Soriano, C. Cao. R.J., Sison, M. (2018). Experiences of ICT use in shared, public access settings in Philippine slums. Development in Practice, 28(3), 358-373

​Soriano, C. (2016). Transmedia mobilization: Agency and literacy in ethnic minority productions in the age of spreadable media. The Information Society, 32(5), 354-363. https://doi.org/10.1080/01972243.2016.1212620

Soriano, C.R, Roldan, MDC, Cheng, C. & Oco, N. (2016). Social media and civic engagement: The case of Twitter use during typhoon Yolanda. Philippine Political Science Journal, 37(1),6 -25. Doi:10.1080/01154451.2016.1146486 [open access]

Soriano, C., & Lim, S. S. (2015). The Virgin Mary with a Mobile Phone. Ideologies of Mothering and Technology Consumption in Philippine television advertisements. Communication, Culture and Critique, 8(1), 1-19. DOI: 10.1111/cccr.12070 [open access]

Soriano, C. (2014). Minorities and Online Political Mobilization: A Historical-Dialectical-Structurational Analysis. Journal of Creative Communications, 8, 89-106 [Read post print here]

Soriano, C. (2014). Constructing Collectivity in Diversity: Online Political Mobilization of an LGBT Political Party. Media, Culture and Society, 36(1), 20-36. [Access postprint here]

Sriramesh, K. Rivera-Sánchez, M. & Soriano, C. (2013). Websites for stakeholder relations by corporations and non-profits: A time-lag study in Singapore. Journal of Communication Management, 17(2), 122- 139. [on open access]     

Soriano, C.R. & Sreekumar, T.T. (2012). Multiple Transcripts as Political Strategy: Social Media and Conflicting Identities of the Moro Liberation Movement in the Philippines. Media, Culture and Society, 34(8), 1028 – 1039. [Read preprint here]

Soriano, C.R. (2012). The Arts of Indigenous Online Dissent: Negotiating Technology, Indigeneity, and Activism in the Cordillera. Telematics and Informatics, 29, 33-44.

Soriano, C.R. (2007). Exploring the ICT and Rural Poverty Reduction Link: Telecenters and Rural Livelihoods in China, Electronic Journal for Information Systems in Developing Countries. 32 (1) 1-15. [on open access] 

Soriano, C.R. (2006). The Challenges of Relief and Rehabilitation in Ongoing Conflict: A Mindanao Case. Kasarinlan, Philippine Journal of Third World Studies. QC: University of the Philippines Press, 21(1), 4-33. [on open access]
 
c. Book chapters
Soriano, C. & Cabanes, JV. (2020). Between ‘world class work’ and ‘proletarianised labor’: Digital labor imaginaries in the Global South. In E.Polson, L. Schofield-Clarke, R. Gajjala (Eds). Routledge Companion to Media and Class. London & New York: Routledge. [Read full preprint here]

Ilagan, K.A. & Soriano, C.R. (2020). Data Journalism in the Philippines: New trends, new practices for old media organizations. In B. Mutsvairo, S. Bebawi, & E. Borges-Rey, Data Journalism in non-Western Societies: Comparative Perspectives. Palgrave. [Read full preprint here]

Soriano, C. & Panaligan, J.C. (2019). The rise of ‘skill-makers’ in the platform economy: Transacting around the ambiguities of digital labor. In (Athique, A. & Baulch, E). Digital Transactions in Asia: Economic, Informational, and Social Exchanges. London & New York: Routledge. [Read full preprint here]
 
Soriano, C. & Cao, R. (2017). Of Owned, Shared, and Public Access ICT: Constructs of Privacy and Publicness in Marginal Spaces. In (A. Telleria, Ed.) Between the Public and Private in Mobile Communication (pp. 77-98).   London & New York: Routledge.
 
Soriano, C. & Cao, R. (2016). Minority groups and strategies of display and dissent in physical, virtual, and hybrid spaces. In Ong, J. & Rovisco, M. (Eds). Taking the Square: New protest movements, the media, and the struggle for democracy 'from below (pp. 207-228). Rowman and Littlefield.
 
Lim, S. S. and Soriano, C (2016).  A (digital) giant awakens: Invigorating media studies through Asian perspectives. In Lim, S.S. & Soriano, C. (Eds). Asian Perspectives on Digital Culture. Emerging Phenomena, Enduring Concepts (pp. 3-16). London & New York: Routledge. [Read full preprint here]
 
Soriano, C. & Lim, S.S. (2016). Ritual and communal connection in mobile phone communication: Representation of kapwa, bayanihan and "People Power" in the Philippines. In Lim, S.S. & Soriano, C. (Eds). Asian Perspectives on Digital Culture, Emerging Phenomena, Enduring Concepts (pp. 100-118). London & New York: Routledge.
 
Sapitula, M and Soriano C. (2016).  My Letter to Heaven via Email. Translocal Piety and Mediated Selves in Urban Marian Piety in the Philippines. In Lim, S.S. & Soriano, C. (Eds). Asian Perspectives on Digital Culture, Emerging Phenomena, Enduring Concepts (pp 33-51). London & New York: Routledge.
 
Soriano, C. (2015). Strategic activism for democratization and social change. In D. Holtzhausen and Ansgar Zerfass (eds.), Handbook of Strategic Communication (pp.424-438). London & New York: Routledge. [Access request here]
 
Soriano, C. (2014). Mobile technologies and gender rituals. In X. Xu (Ed), Mobile Media and Communications: Social, Political and Economic Implications (pp. 85-107). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. 
 
d. Book/article reviews
Soriano, C. (2015). Review: Proenza, F. J. (Ed.), Public Access ICT across Cultures. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. Kasarinlan: Philippine Journal of Third World Studies, 30(1), 130-133.
 
Soriano, C. (2015). Review: Rogers, R. (2013). ‘Digital Methods’. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. Television and New Media, 16(8), 772.
 
Soriano, C. (2015). Article Review of “Noli Me Tangere” (Touch me Not). Sabangan Journal, pp. 93-97  https://sabanganpwu.wordpress.com/2014/11/24/soriano-article-review/
 
Soriano, C. (2013).  Review: G. Lovink, ‘Networks without a Cause: Critique of Social Media’. Mobile Media & Communication, 1(3), 373-374
 
f. White Papers / Commissioned Works
 
Magno, F. & Soriano, C. (2013).  E-Government Services for Overseas Filipino Workers. Study funded by the National Research Council of the Philippines and the Department of Science and Technology.


Soriano, C.R.  (2010). Online Deliberative Spaces and the Ethno-religious Divide in the Philippines: Deliberative Democracy or Agonistic Pluralism?  Published by the National University of Singapore-Communications and New Media White Paper Series.
 
Lallana, E. & Soriano, C (2008).  Towards Universal Internet Access in the Philippines. Research funded by Ideacorp, Inc. and Intel Technology Philippines Inc. Available from http://www.unapcict.org/ecohub/resources/towards-universal-internet-access-in-the-philippines
 
Mendes, S. Alampay, E., Soriano, E. & Soriano, C. (2008). Innovative Mobile Applications in the Philippines (Lessons for Africa). Research commissioned by the Swedish International Development Agency. Available from http://www.sida.se/shared/jsp/download.jsp?f=SIDA38306en_Phillippines+web.pdf&a=33306
 
g. Public Communication

Resource person/Guest for Early Edition on ANC: Social media and the midterm elections, Jan 9, 2019

Warning: Fake news can impact polls, ABS-CBN News, Jan 9, 2019. https://news.abs-cbn.com/video/news/01/09/19/warning-false-online-info-can-impact-may-polls
 
Resource person for “Who are the influencers?” Business World https://www.bworldonline.com/who-are-the-influencers/
 
Resource person for the episode on Social Media Ethics, Convo by Cheche Lazaro, July 11, 2018, CignalTV. https://www.facebook.com/ConvowithChecheLazaro/
 
Panel (with Peter Greste, Jean Encinas Franco, Clarissa David)- Democracy and Disinformation Conference, Ateneo Rockwell, 13 Feb 2018.  Available fromhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF5Kxdadax0

Panel: Fake news and democracy: What educators and the academe can do? (with Clarissa David & GH Ambat). Truth, Trust and Democracy in the Age of Selfies, Trolls and Bots. The Green Sun, Makati, 28 Nov 2018.  
Position paper submitted to the Philippine Senate: On Senate initiatives for the fight against online falsehoods, 31 January 2018. https://www.facebook.com/notes/cheryll-soriano/musings-on-senate-initiatives-for-the-fight-against-online-falsehoods/10155984104435502/2

Digital Labor: Deep stories and structures from online Filipino worker's lenses, Research blog, Newton Tech4Dev Network, July 2017 http://newtontechfordev.com/digital-labor-deep-stories-deep-structures-online-filipino-freelance-workers-lenses/
 
How social media changed the way we consume news. SBS Radio Australia, 28 April 2017 http://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/filipino/en/content/how-social-and-digital-media-changed-way-we-consume-news

How social media changed the way we talk about issues. SBS Radio Australia, 2 Sept 2016. http://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/filipino/en/content/how-has-social-media-changed-way-we-talk-about-issues