Biography
Dr Earvin Charles Cabalquinto is a Lecturer in Communication in the School of Communication and Creative Arts (SCCA). His research works lie in the intersections of digital media, mobilities and migration with a particular focus on critically investigating how migration experiences are shaped by an increasingly digitalisation of a contemporary and global society. He is interested in interrogating the possibilities and limits of digital media use in the conduct of personal, familial and social relations beyond borders. Further, his research advances ways of approaching and researching digital practices in a transnational context by deploying ethnographic and visual methodologies. He has published his works in high-ranking international journals such as Mobile Media & Communication, Media, Culture & Society, Information, Communication & Society, and Telematics and Informatics, as well as in edited book collections. He is actively working on several projects that seek to address the digital needs of migrant communities for civic participation in Australia.
Dr Cabalquinto sits in the editorial board of the International Journal of Cultural Studies. He also serves as an Associate Editor of Philippine- and Asia-based journals. He has been regularly invited by media outlets in and outside of Australia to give expert advice on a range of topics related to digital media and migration. These media channels include, SBS Filipino, The New Mandala, The Newsletter of International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Geelong Advertiser, Rappler, and so forth.
Research interests
Digital and social media, Transnational communication, Labour migration, Transnational Ageing, (Im)mobilities in a digital world, Postcolonial content creation, Gender and Digital MediaDigital Practices, and Digital Labour.
Teaching interests
Digital media and communication, Digital marketing, Digital Curation, Digital media research methods, and Global communication
Units taught
ALR703: Digital Marketing
ALM302: Digital Media Entrepreneurship
ALC703: Digital Curation
ALM101: Making Social Media
ALC708: Social Media Content Creation
ALA102: Creative Brand Communication
Knowledge areas
Digital media and communication, labour migration, gender studies, mobilities research, transnational ageing studies, digital ethnography, and visual methods.
Research groups
Communication, School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University
Mobilities, Diversity and Multiculturalism Stream, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
Member, International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in Europe (IMISCOE)
Member, Association of Internet Researchers.
Awards
Visiting Scholar, Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe), Lancaster University, United Kingdom, 2019
Recognition of achievement in student satisfaction survey - T1, 2019, School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University
Faculty of Arts Dean’s Sessional Commendation, Monash University, 2015
Commendation for Excellent Teaching Results in 2018, School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University.
Recipient of the Monash Postgraduate Publications Award, 2016
Monash Graduate Scholarship (MGS) and Monash International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (MIPRS) (2012 – 2016)
Projects
(1) Digital connectivity in turbulent times: The case of elderly Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) people in Melbourne, Australia. This project is funded through the 2020 Pilot Research Grant at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation.
(2) Cultures of (Im)mobile Entanglements: Doing Research on Digital Media and Migration in Pandemic Times. A collaborative work with Dr Koen Leurs of Utretch University. The project is funded through the 2021 Collaborative Research Plan at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Globalisation and Citizenship.
(3) YouTube and Brokerage of Social Transactions in the Philippines. A collaborative project with Professor Cheryll Soriano of De La Salle University, Philippines.
(4) Foreign Workers in the Care Industry in Australia. A collaborative project with Dr Arlene Ozanne (University of Otago, New Zealand) and Dr Ruth Carlos (Ryukoku University, Japan). The project is granted a Grant Priming Fund from the University of Otago (2019).
Publications
Care within or out of reach: Fantasies of care and connectivity in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic
Earvin Cabalquinto, Tanja Ahlin
(2021), pp. 344-361, Viral Loads: Anthropologies of urgency in the time of COVID-19, London, Eng., B1
Telecocooning in the age of (im)mobility
Earvin Cabalquinto
(2021), Vol. 14, pp. 351-355, Communication, culture and critique, Oxford, Eng., C1
Performing "digital labor bayanihan": strategies of influence and survival in the platform economy
Cheryll Soriano, Earvin Cabalquinto, Joy Panaligan
(2021), Vol. 23, pp. 84-111, Sociologias, Porto Alegre, Brazil, C1
Transnational mobile carework: Filipino migrants, family intimacy, and mobile media
Cecilia Uy-Tioco, Earvin Cabalquinto
(2020), pp. 153-170, Mobile media and social intimacies in Asia : reconfiguring local ties and enacting global relationships, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, B1
Researching transnational family life in a mobile era
Earvin Cabalquinto
(2020), pp. 251-262, Handbook of research methods and applications for mobilities, Cheltenham, eng., B1
E Cabalquinto
(2020), Vol. 23, pp. 1608-1624, Information communication and society, Abingdon, Eng., C1
Elastic carework: the cost and contradictions of mobile caregiving in a transnational household
E Cabalquinto
(2020), Vol. 34, pp. 133-145, Continuum: journal of media & cultural studies, London, Eng., C1
E Cabalquinto, B Hutchins
(2020), Vol. 51, pp. 1-10, Telematics and Informatics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, C1
Earvin Cabalquinto, Cheryll Soriano
(2020), Vol. 23, pp. 892-907, Information, community & society, Abingdon, Eng., C1
E Cabalquinto, G Wood-Bradley
(2020), Vol. 23, pp. 787-802, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Thousand Oaks, CA, C1
Standby Mothering: Temporalities, Affects, and the Politics of Mobile Intergenerational Care
Earvin Cabalquinto
(2020), Vol. 18, pp. 358-376, Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, London, Eng., C1
[Dis]connected households: transnational family life in the age of mobile internet
Earvin Cabalquinto
(2019), pp. 1-21, Second international handbook of internet research, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, B1
Earvin Cabalquinto
(2019), Vol. 4, pp. 49-63, Migration, mobility, & displacement, Victoria, BC, C1
Ambivalent intimacies: entangled pains and gains through Facebook use in transnational family life
E Cabalquinto
(2018), pp. 247-263, Digital intimate publics & social media, Cham, Switzerland, B1
E Cabalquinto
(2018), Vol. 12, pp. 4011-4029, International journal of communication, Los Angeles, Calif., C1
Home on the move: negotiating differential domesticity in family life at a distance
Earvin Cabalquinto
(2018), Vol. 40, pp. 795-816, Media, culture & society, London, Eng., C1
E Cabalquinto
(2018), Vol. 6, pp. 37-52, Mobile media & communication, London, Eng., C1
Funded Projects at Deakin
Industry and Other Funding
Digital Media, Democracy and Youth in East and Southeast Asia
Dr Jian Xu, Prof Anita Harris, Dr Earvin Cabalquinto, Dr Amelia Johns
- 2020: $4,271
Supervisions
No completed student supervisions to report