Lia Uy-Tioco
@luytioco.bsky.social
Professor of Media Studies, CSUSM | PhD Cultural Studies, GMU | mobile phones, Philippine telecom industry, transnational intimacies, globalization, media & cultural studies 📱🌏📲
I don’t feel quite ready for the Spring semester to start tomorrow… but at least my Canvas/Cougar Courses dashboard looks pretty? 🤭
January 20, 2026 at 3:23 AM
I don’t feel quite ready for the Spring semester to start tomorrow… but at least my Canvas/Cougar Courses dashboard looks pretty? 🤭
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🌍📱 Global intimacies & Mobile Comm Theorizing
@luytioco.bsky.social and Jason Cabañes argue for non-Western and Global South theory-building in mobile media research.
💡 A must-read for scholars seeking inclusive, contextualized approaches to mobile communication.
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2050...
@luytioco.bsky.social and Jason Cabañes argue for non-Western and Global South theory-building in mobile media research.
💡 A must-read for scholars seeking inclusive, contextualized approaches to mobile communication.
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2050...
January 12, 2026 at 12:36 PM
🌍📱 Global intimacies & Mobile Comm Theorizing
@luytioco.bsky.social and Jason Cabañes argue for non-Western and Global South theory-building in mobile media research.
💡 A must-read for scholars seeking inclusive, contextualized approaches to mobile communication.
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2050...
@luytioco.bsky.social and Jason Cabañes argue for non-Western and Global South theory-building in mobile media research.
💡 A must-read for scholars seeking inclusive, contextualized approaches to mobile communication.
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2050...
🚨Pub alert! Jace Cabanes' and my latest article is out online first in @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social! In this piece, we make a case for the value of non-West and global South theorizing for mobile media and communication scholarship using our concept of glocal intimacies as an example.
Glocal intimacies as
non-West and global South theory-building for mobile media and communication - Cecilia S. Uy-Tioco, Jason Vincent A. Cabañes, 2026
Using the theory of glocal intimacies as an illustrative case, this article argues for the value of non-West and global South theorizing for mobile media and co...
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January 6, 2026 at 12:21 PM
🚨Pub alert! Jace Cabanes' and my latest article is out online first in @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social! In this piece, we make a case for the value of non-West and global South theorizing for mobile media and communication scholarship using our concept of glocal intimacies as an example.
So excited that my copy finally came! It is such an honor to be included in this volume of distinguished mobile media and communication scholars. Huge thanks to Gerard Goggin and Larissa Hjorth!
November 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
So excited that my copy finally came! It is such an honor to be included in this volume of distinguished mobile media and communication scholars. Huge thanks to Gerard Goggin and Larissa Hjorth!
Join us!!!
First up in the @icamobile.bsky.social student and early career scholar event calendar is How to Submit to the Mobile Communication Division, featuring International Liaison @luytioco.bsky.social and former chair Keri Stephens. Details here:
October 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Join us!!!
Ready or not, the Fall 2025 semester is starting!
August 25, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Ready or not, the Fall 2025 semester is starting!
I got the official provost letter in mid June letting me know that I had been promoted effective the Fall 2025 semester. Since we’re a few weeks away from the start of the academic year, I guess it’s time to make it social media official! 😝
August 7, 2025 at 4:37 AM
I got the official provost letter in mid June letting me know that I had been promoted effective the Fall 2025 semester. Since we’re a few weeks away from the start of the academic year, I guess it’s time to make it social media official! 😝
Well, that was fun! Thanks Cultural Studies @georgemasonu.bsky.social for having me back to speak at colloquium. Special thanks to @tim-gibson.bsky.social for inviting me!
March 21, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Well, that was fun! Thanks Cultural Studies @georgemasonu.bsky.social for having me back to speak at colloquium. Special thanks to @tim-gibson.bsky.social for inviting me!
It’s that time of year for @icahdq.bsky.social hotel reservations hunger games! Waitlisted for 2 nights! 🤦🏻♀️
March 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
It’s that time of year for @icahdq.bsky.social hotel reservations hunger games! Waitlisted for 2 nights! 🤦🏻♀️
Reposted by Lia Uy-Tioco
PhD students whose work connects with Communication and Technology and/or Mobile Communication theories, methods, and topics are encouraged to apply to the Doctoral Consortium, an #ICA25 pre-conference to be held on Thurs Jun 12.
2025 ICA CAT/Mobile DC
Overview The Doctoral Consortium (DC) sponsored by the Communication and Technology and Mobile Communication Divisions of the International Communication Association will bring together PhD…
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January 17, 2025 at 5:00 AM
PhD students whose work connects with Communication and Technology and/or Mobile Communication theories, methods, and topics are encouraged to apply to the Doctoral Consortium, an #ICA25 pre-conference to be held on Thurs Jun 12.
Reposted by Lia Uy-Tioco
PhD students whose work connects with Communication and Technology and/or Mobile Communication theories, methods, and topics are encouraged to apply to the Doctoral Consortium, an #ICA25 pre-conference to be held on Thurs Jun 12.
https://buff.ly/3USZB4A
https://buff.ly/3USZB4A
January 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM
PhD students whose work connects with Communication and Technology and/or Mobile Communication theories, methods, and topics are encouraged to apply to the Doctoral Consortium, an #ICA25 pre-conference to be held on Thurs Jun 12.
https://buff.ly/3USZB4A
https://buff.ly/3USZB4A
Faculty marshals ready for CSUSM CHABSS 2nd fall commencement ceremony!
December 16, 2024 at 4:11 AM
Faculty marshals ready for CSUSM CHABSS 2nd fall commencement ceremony!
Such an amazing talk by Armaghan Ziaee, Ph.D. at today’s Research Seminar Series sponsored by CSUSM Office of Graduate Studies and Research and the Committee for International Research (CIR) California State University San Marcos.
November 20, 2024 at 4:57 AM
Such an amazing talk by Armaghan Ziaee, Ph.D. at today’s Research Seminar Series sponsored by CSUSM Office of Graduate Studies and Research and the Committee for International Research (CIR) California State University San Marcos.
Happening now! Dr Elinne Beckett @bielleogy.bsky.social presenting at Cal State Univ San Marcos Faculty Research Colloquium! 🤩
November 15, 2024 at 3:11 AM
Happening now! Dr Elinne Beckett @bielleogy.bsky.social presenting at Cal State Univ San Marcos Faculty Research Colloquium! 🤩
So this happened. Congrats to my fellow awardees, especially @aspield.bsky.social!
December 16, 2023 at 1:42 AM
So this happened. Congrats to my fellow awardees, especially @aspield.bsky.social!
November, you have been a beast. I’m glad you are over. December will certainly have its challenges, but hopeful for good news. 🤞🏼
Friends, please continue to pray for my intentions, especially for the health of a beloved relative. 🙏🏼
Friends, please continue to pray for my intentions, especially for the health of a beloved relative. 🙏🏼
December 1, 2023 at 7:46 AM
November, you have been a beast. I’m glad you are over. December will certainly have its challenges, but hopeful for good news. 🤞🏼
Friends, please continue to pray for my intentions, especially for the health of a beloved relative. 🙏🏼
Friends, please continue to pray for my intentions, especially for the health of a beloved relative. 🙏🏼
Stolen iPhone update: it’s now in Shenzhen and I’ve gotten text messages: pretending to be Apple, begging bec phone was bought for child, and today threatening to kill me. Reporting to local police and spoke with @Apple customer service who was really helpful & reassuring.
November 29, 2023 at 2:47 AM
Stolen iPhone update: it’s now in Shenzhen and I’ve gotten text messages: pretending to be Apple, begging bec phone was bought for child, and today threatening to kill me. Reporting to local police and spoke with @Apple customer service who was really helpful & reassuring.
November has been a really tough month so far. Kindly include my intentions in your prayers. 🙏🏼
November 17, 2023 at 7:38 PM
November has been a really tough month so far. Kindly include my intentions in your prayers. 🙏🏼
Scheduled power outage in my apartment complex from 9am-3pm. Managed to make coffee ☕️ and fix my hair 👩🏻 before it got cut off. #priorities
November 14, 2023 at 5:24 PM
Scheduled power outage in my apartment complex from 9am-3pm. Managed to make coffee ☕️ and fix my hair 👩🏻 before it got cut off. #priorities
It has been the most stressful and physically and emotionally exhausting 14 days. I’m slowly emerging from it and feeling like myself again. 💗
November 11, 2023 at 7:36 AM
It has been the most stressful and physically and emotionally exhausting 14 days. I’m slowly emerging from it and feeling like myself again. 💗
Just when I thought the crazy week I had was behind me, my iPhone (+2 others) got stolen at Trader Joe's. Managed to get a new iPhone, but couldn't get @AT&T @ATTHelp to activate it so I need to go to a store tomorrow... & need to report & reactive my @enjoyGLOBE number too...
November 6, 2023 at 4:34 AM
Just when I thought the crazy week I had was behind me, my iPhone (+2 others) got stolen at Trader Joe's. Managed to get a new iPhone, but couldn't get @AT&T @ATTHelp to activate it so I need to go to a store tomorrow... & need to report & reactive my @enjoyGLOBE number too...
When you want to write but you have meetings and teaching... 😭 #ICAdeadline #ICAcramming (yeah, yeah, yeah hashtags not here yet...)
October 30, 2023 at 6:49 PM
When you want to write but you have meetings and teaching... 😭 #ICAdeadline #ICAcramming (yeah, yeah, yeah hashtags not here yet...)
So honored to have been elected and excited to serve ICA Mobile Comm division in this new role!
ICAMobile Election Results look great. 28% voter turnout is one of the highest, we had great candidates (thank you all for running) and with this result, I feel the Division is up for a very bright future! Congrats, Andrew, Ross and Lia! (come to 🟦 blue so I can tag you there :))
October 14, 2023 at 2:32 PM
So honored to have been elected and excited to serve ICA Mobile Comm division in this new role!
Got my Covid-19 and flu vaccines today! 💉💉 Grateful I have access and wish others around the world did too. 🌏
September 25, 2023 at 6:10 AM
Got my Covid-19 and flu vaccines today! 💉💉 Grateful I have access and wish others around the world did too. 🌏