Philippine E-Journals

Crafting/ Slaying/Destabilizing Young Self in Cyberspace: Phenomenological Reflections on Power and Vulnerability

Jeane C. Peracullo

Susing salita: Philippine Studies

 

Abstrak:

While cyberspace fosters and provides democratic spaces crave by young people to creatively express themselves, such spaces can also render them vulnerable. Through phenomenology, De La Salle University students critically examined their own experience as they navigated cyberspace. The activity enabled them to reflect deeply into their own engagement and whether such made them empowered or vulnerable.