DR EARVIN CHARLES B. CABALQUINTO
I am an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University. I am an Honorary Visiting Fellow in the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University.
I held visiting fellowship across renowned and international research instutions. I was a Global Exchange Fellow in the Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Migration and Integration, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada in 2024. In 2021, I was awarded a Visiting Research Fellow in the Centre of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Care (CoE AgeCare) at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. In 2019, I was invited as a Visiting Scholar in the Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe) at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom.
I have held leadership roles across various scholarly organisations. I sit in the editorial board of a peer-reviewed and international academic journal, the International Journal of Cultural Studies, Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies and the Journal of Global Ageing. I am a co-convenor of the Migration and Mobility Research Network (MMRN) at Monash University. The network is an institutional member of the Asia Mobility Research Network.
My research expertise lies at the intersections of digital media, (im)mobilities and migration. More specifically, I am interested in examining the role of mobile devices and networked communication platforms in engendering and undermining transnational relationships, mediated intimacies, caregiving at a distance, crisis communication, and homeland linkages. As a digital media scholar, I engage with the possibilities, challenges, and paradoxes of digital media use across diverse contexts, including online content creation in a gig economy, ageing migrants' (im)mobility in a digital world, and sustaining familial relationships beyond borders in a platform society. Through my work, I have been invited to presented in Australia, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Philippines, Canada, Singapore, Taiwan, Finland, among others.
My research has been published in top peer-reviewed journals, including Mobile Media & Communication, Media Culture & Society, International Journal of Communication, Information Communication & Society, Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, and Communication, Culture and Critique, as well as in specialised edited book collections. Building on my PhD thesis, and which key contents have been further developed and enhanced through years of scholarly engagements, presentations and publications, my first sole-authored book, "(Im)mobile Homes: Family Life at a Distance in the Age of Mobile Media" (2022), is published under the Studies in Mobile Communication series of Oxford University Press (OUP). Moreover, I guest co-edited the Special Issue on 'Cultures of (Im)mobile Entanglements' in the International Journal of Cultural Studies. Lastly, I am the author of a collaborative book that critically examines the role of YouTube in the brokering of social, economic and political transactions in the Philippines. Titled "Philippine Digital Cultures: Brokerage dynamics on YouTube" (2022), the book is published as part of its Asian Visual Culture Series of Amsterdam University Press (AUP).
I can be reached at [email protected] or [email protected]. To access my research outputs, visit my ResearchGate, Academia, and Google Scholar. You can also follow me on X, Bluesky and LinkedIn to receive updates about my projects, publications, speaking engagements, and community-based works.
I held visiting fellowship across renowned and international research instutions. I was a Global Exchange Fellow in the Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Migration and Integration, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada in 2024. In 2021, I was awarded a Visiting Research Fellow in the Centre of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Care (CoE AgeCare) at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. In 2019, I was invited as a Visiting Scholar in the Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe) at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom.
I have held leadership roles across various scholarly organisations. I sit in the editorial board of a peer-reviewed and international academic journal, the International Journal of Cultural Studies, Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies and the Journal of Global Ageing. I am a co-convenor of the Migration and Mobility Research Network (MMRN) at Monash University. The network is an institutional member of the Asia Mobility Research Network.
My research expertise lies at the intersections of digital media, (im)mobilities and migration. More specifically, I am interested in examining the role of mobile devices and networked communication platforms in engendering and undermining transnational relationships, mediated intimacies, caregiving at a distance, crisis communication, and homeland linkages. As a digital media scholar, I engage with the possibilities, challenges, and paradoxes of digital media use across diverse contexts, including online content creation in a gig economy, ageing migrants' (im)mobility in a digital world, and sustaining familial relationships beyond borders in a platform society. Through my work, I have been invited to presented in Australia, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Philippines, Canada, Singapore, Taiwan, Finland, among others.
My research has been published in top peer-reviewed journals, including Mobile Media & Communication, Media Culture & Society, International Journal of Communication, Information Communication & Society, Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, and Communication, Culture and Critique, as well as in specialised edited book collections. Building on my PhD thesis, and which key contents have been further developed and enhanced through years of scholarly engagements, presentations and publications, my first sole-authored book, "(Im)mobile Homes: Family Life at a Distance in the Age of Mobile Media" (2022), is published under the Studies in Mobile Communication series of Oxford University Press (OUP). Moreover, I guest co-edited the Special Issue on 'Cultures of (Im)mobile Entanglements' in the International Journal of Cultural Studies. Lastly, I am the author of a collaborative book that critically examines the role of YouTube in the brokering of social, economic and political transactions in the Philippines. Titled "Philippine Digital Cultures: Brokerage dynamics on YouTube" (2022), the book is published as part of its Asian Visual Culture Series of Amsterdam University Press (AUP).
I can be reached at [email protected] or [email protected]. To access my research outputs, visit my ResearchGate, Academia, and Google Scholar. You can also follow me on X, Bluesky and LinkedIn to receive updates about my projects, publications, speaking engagements, and community-based works.