Research
Scholarly works, academic presentations and public writings
Peer-reviewed journal articles
2025
Ruijgrok , K., Berenschot, W., Gaw , F., Sombatpoonsiri, J., Wiyayanto, Agonos, M.J., & Sastramidjaja, Y. (2025). Towards the Comparative Study of Domestic Influence Operations: Cybertroops and Elite Competition in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand. Political Communication, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2025.2566098
Gaw , F., Agonos, M.J., Ruijgrok , K., & Suarez, G.S. (2025). Influence Operations as Brokerage: Political-Economic Infrastructures of Manipulation in the 2022 Philippine Elections. International Journal of Communication, 19, 21. Retrieved from https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/23553
Gaw, F., Bunquin, J. B. A., Lanuza, J. M. H., Cabbuag, S. I., Sapalo, N. H., & Yusoph, A.-H. (2025). Covert political campaigning: Mapping the scope, scale, and cost of cross-platform election influence operations. New Media & Society, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448241312191
2024
Gaw, F., & Bunquin, J. B. A. (2024). In Dishonor of: The Assemblage of Counter-Memory as Networked Resistance on Twitter. International Journal of Communication, 18, 25. Retrieved from https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/21308/4547
2022
Bunquin, J. B. & Gaw, F. (2022). Digital Public Pulse: Mapping the digital landscape of Philippine politics. Philippine Communication Society Review, 181-194. (Full text)
​
Soriano, C. R. R., & Gaw, M. F. (2022). Broadcasting anti-media populism in the Philippines: YouTube influencers, networked political brokerage, and implications for governance. Policy & Internet, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.322
​
Gaw, F. (2022). Algorithmic logics and the construction of cultural taste of the Netflix Recommender System. Media, Culture & Society, 44(4), 706–725. https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437211053767
​
Soriano, C. R. R., & Gaw, F. (2022). Platforms, alternative influence, and networked political brokerage on YouTube. Convergence, 28(3), 781–803. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565211029769 (Pre-print link)
2021
Bunquin, J. B., & Gaw, F. (2021). Digital witnessing in a pandemic: An assemblage analysis of the Twitter hashtag network #MassTestingPH. Southeast Asian Media Studies Journal, 3(1), 23–52. (Full text)
Peer-reviewed conference presentations
2025
Nisbet, E.C., Gaw, F., Abhari, R., Mortenson, C. Fahkari, H. & Lokmanoglu, A., (2025, September 11-14) Mapping How Alt-tech Content Penetrates the Political Mainstream: Network Diffusion of Rumble Video Links on Facebook. 2025 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Gaw, F., Lokmanoglu, A., Xu, Y., Mortenson, C. & Nisbet, E.C. (2025, September 11-14). Measuring News Media Polarization Using Dynamic Semantic Networks. 2025 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Gaw, F., Lu, Y., & Nisbet, E.C. (2025, August 13-14). Mapping Visual Strategies and Engagement of Tiktok Influencers: A Computational Visual Approach. 18th Annual Political Networks and Computational Social Science Conference (PolNet-PaCSS). Boston, USA.
Gaw, F. & Nisbet, E.C. (2025, May 12-15). Understanding Alt-Tech Social Media Users: Media Behaviors, Political Attitudes, and Electoral Attitudes. World Association for Public Opinion Research 78th Annual Conference. St. Louis, MO, USA.
2024
Gaw, F. & Bunquin, J.B. (2024, October 30 – November 2). Investigating the platform logics of Twitter through its structural network mechanisms. Paper presented at AoIR 2024: The 25th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers. Sheffield, UK.
Gaw, F. (2024, August 7-11). Influencer Media Logics [Paper presentation]. Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
2023
Gaw, F., Bunquin, J.B., Cabbuag, S., Lanuza, J.M., Sapalo, N. & Yusoph, A. (2023, October 18-21). Mapping the political economy of social media manipulation. Paper presented at AoIR 2023: The 24nd Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers. Philadelphia, USA.
Gaw, F., Cruz, I.Y. & Pineda, L.C. (2023, May 25-29). YouTube ‘news’ vernacular and the co-option of news conventions in the periphery of journalism. Paper presented at ICA 2023: The 73rd Annual International Communication Association Conference, Journalism Studies Division. Toronto, Canada.
2022
Bunquin, J. B., & Gaw, F. (2022). Platformed politics: A cross-platform analysis of the networked publics in the 2022 Philippine Presidential Elections. Extended abstract presented at the 72nd Annual ICA Conference, One World, One Network‽. International Communication Association.
2021
Gaw, F. & Bunquin, J.B. (2021, October). Subversive Commemoration: Mapping the assemblage of Counter-memory on Twitter. Paper presented at AoIR 2021: The 22nd Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers. Virtual Event: AoIR. https://doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2021i0.12168
Peer-reviewed book chapters
2025
Gaw, F. & Soriano, C.R.R. (forthcoming). Brokerage. In Nai, A., M. Grömping & D. Wirz, Encyclopedia of Political Communication. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Gaw, F. (2025). Machinery of Disinformation in the 2022 Philippine Elections. In Tandoc Jr., E.C. (Ed.)., Fake News Across Asian Countries. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003403166
Gaw, F. (2025). Disinformation promotion on social media. In Edwards, L., C. Bourne, J.V.A. Cabañes, & G. Castro (Eds.), The Sage Handbook of Promotional Culture and Society. SAGE. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529674583.n10
2023
Gaw, F. (2023). Coding and Encoding Streamed Media: The Cultural Infrastructure of the Netflix Recommendation System. In Parks, L., J. Velkova, & S. de Ridder (Eds.), Media Backends: Digital Infrastructures and Sociotechnical Relations (pp. 80-94). University of Illinois Press.
Public reports
2023
Gaw, F., Bunquin, J.B., Cabbuag, S., Lanuza, J.M., Sapalo, N., & Yusoph, A. (2023). Political Economy of Covert Influence Operations in the 2022 Philippine Elections. Internews. https://internews.org/resource/political-economy-of-covert-influence-operationsin-
the-2022-philippine-elections/
2022
Bunquin, J.B., Gaw, F., Baldo-Cubelo, J.T., Paragas, F., & San Pascual, M.R. (2022). Digital Public Pulse: 2022 Philippine General Elections. Philippine Media Monitoring Laboratory, College of Mass Communication, University of the Philippines. (Full text)