Uy-Tioco, Ph.D.

Cecilia Uy-Tioco, Ph.D. (2013)

Associate Professor of Communication

Email: cuytioco@csusm.edu

Phone: (760) 750-8281
Office:  SBSB 2120

Cecilia “Lia” Uy-Tioco earned her Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from George Mason University. She grew up in the Philippines where she received an A.B. in Interdisciplinary Studies with a focus on Communication and Legal Management from the Ateneo de Manila University. Dr. Uy-Tioco also holds a Certificate in Publishing from the Radcliffe Publishing Course at Harvard University, an M.A. in Individualized Study/Publishing from New York University, and an M.A. in Media Studies from the New School University. In Fall 2021 she was Visiting Faculty at the Ateneo de Manila University and the University of the Philippines Diliman.

As an interdisciplinary scholar, Dr. Uy-Tioco’s research is primarily engaged in interrogating the relationships between media, culture, and globalization. In particular, she is interested in the deployment and adoption of new media technologies in the developing world as well in transnational communities. More specifically, her research centers on the Philippine telecom industry and Philippine migrant communities in the United States. Her work is motivated by an interest in analyzing unequal power relationships within larger processes of globalization, particularly as these unequal power relationships connect to theoretical debates over the meaning of modernity in the developing world. Dr. Uy-Tioco’s research is grounded in a critical media and cultural studies approach, which provides not only an analysis of media texts and technologies, but further situates these texts and technologies as part of larger social, cultural, political, and economic contexts.

At CSUSM Dr. Uy-Tioco teaches courses on global media, media theory, new media & everyday life, children’s media, and mobile media cultures. Prior to this, she taught and developed a variety of courses at George Mason University (ranging from introductory freshman to advanced graduate theory courses in globalization, culture, and media; mass communication theory; new media; and globalization and food) and at the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines. Before joining academia, Dr. Uy-Tioco worked in the book and magazine publishing industry in both the Philippines and New York.

Book

Cabañes, Jason Vincent A. and Uy-Tioco, Cecilia S. (Eds.) (2020). Mobile Media & Social Intimacies in Asia: Reconfiguring Local Ties and Enacting Global Relationships. Springer. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-94-024-1790-6

Journal Articles

Cabañes, Jason Vincent A. and Uy-Tioco, Cecilia S. (2022) “Glocal Intimacies: Theorizing Mobile Media and Intimate Relationships,” Communication, Culture & Critique. Online first 30 July. https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcac030

Uy-Tioco Cecilia S. and Cabañes Jason Vincent A. (2021) “Glocal Intimacies and the Contradictions of Mobile Media Access in the Philippines.” Media International Australia. 179(1), 9-22.  

https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878X20985962

Uy-Tioco, Cecilia S. (2019) “‘Good Enough’ Access: Digital Inclusion, Social Stratification, and the Reinforcement of Class in the Philippines,” Journal of Communication Research & Practice. 5(2), 156-171. https://doi.org/10.1080/22041451.2019.1601492

Uy-Tioco, Cecilia S. (2007) “Overseas Filipino Workers & Text Messaging: Reinventing Transnational Mothering,” Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies. 21(2), 253-265. https://doi.org/10.1080/10304310701269081

 Book Chapters

Uy-Tioco, Cecilia S. (2022) “Glocal Intimacies, Digital Media and the Transnational Lives of Elite Filipino Migrants during a Global Pandemic.” In Youna Kim (Ed.). Media in Asia: Global, Digital, Gendered and Mobile (pp. 333-347). Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Media-in-Asia-Global-Digital-Gendered-and-Mobile/Kim/p/book/9780367672850

Cabañes, Jason Vincent A. and Uy-Tioco, Cecilia S. (2020) “Mobile Media and the Rise of ‘Glocal Intimacies’ in Asia.” In Jason V. A. Cabañes and Cecilia S. Uy-Tioco (Eds.), Mobile Media & Social Intimacies in Asia: Reconfiguring Local Ties and Enacting Global Relationships (pp. 1-12). Springer. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-94-024-1790-6

Uy-Tioco, Cecilia S. and Cabalquinto, Earvin Charles B. (2020) “Transnational Mobile Carework: Filipino Migrants, Family Intimacy, and Mobile Media.” In Jason V. A. Cabañes and Cecilia S. Uy-Tioco (Eds.), Mobile Media & Social Intimacies in Asia: Reconfiguring Local Ties and Enacting Global Relationships (pp. 153-170). Springer. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-94-024-1790-6

Uy-Tioco, Cecilia S. (2017) “Transnational Ties: Elite Filipino Migrants and Polymedia Environments.” In Lori K. Lopez and Vincent Pham (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Asian American Media. (pp. 249-260). Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Asian-American-Media/Lopez-Pham/p/book/9780367871925#