Karl Patrick R. Mendoza
@kprmendoza.bsky.social
Communication scholar | Trust, scandal & governance | Global South | PUP | IAMCR
Personal Website: https://kprmendoza.academic.ws/
Personal Website: https://kprmendoza.academic.ws/
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Navigating Trust is now available with @routledgebooks.bsky.social.
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Happy to share I’ve signed a new book contract with Routledge🎉
This is a more theoretical follow-up to Navigating Trust—part 2 of a planned 3-book arc on trust & scandals in the Global South.
This is a more theoretical follow-up to Navigating Trust—part 2 of a planned 3-book arc on trust & scandals in the Global South.
November 28, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Happy to share I’ve signed a new book contract with Routledge🎉
This is a more theoretical follow-up to Navigating Trust—part 2 of a planned 3-book arc on trust & scandals in the Global South.
This is a more theoretical follow-up to Navigating Trust—part 2 of a planned 3-book arc on trust & scandals in the Global South.
Our new SSRN preprint is out: In Relation, Not Replacement. We push back against calls to ban generative AI in qualitative research by reframing reflexivity as relational, mediated, and plural.
Download here: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
Download here: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
November 19, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Our new SSRN preprint is out: In Relation, Not Replacement. We push back against calls to ban generative AI in qualitative research by reframing reflexivity as relational, mediated, and plural.
Download here: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
Download here: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
I just published a new piece with @therealrw.bsky.social: “Cooking Outside the PhD.”
researchwhisperer.org/2025/11/18/c...
I wrote this for scholars whose research lives don’t fit the linear PhD–postdoc–tenure template.
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I wrote this for scholars whose research lives don’t fit the linear PhD–postdoc–tenure template.
Cooking outside the PhD
Photo by Webvilla on Unsplash. Most research development models assume that time, energy, and executive functioning are equally distributed across scholars. They aren’t. Especially not for early ca…
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November 17, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I just published a new piece with @therealrw.bsky.social: “Cooking Outside the PhD.”
researchwhisperer.org/2025/11/18/c...
I wrote this for scholars whose research lives don’t fit the linear PhD–postdoc–tenure template.
researchwhisperer.org/2025/11/18/c...
I wrote this for scholars whose research lives don’t fit the linear PhD–postdoc–tenure template.
A shiny new project ahead. Just signed with Vernon Press for "Scaffolding the Self: Neurodivergent Life, Care, and Relational Sovereignty in the Academy" (out 2027).
This is my first full-length venture into neurodiversity scholarship!
This is my first full-length venture into neurodiversity scholarship!
November 4, 2025 at 11:34 PM
A shiny new project ahead. Just signed with Vernon Press for "Scaffolding the Self: Neurodivergent Life, Care, and Relational Sovereignty in the Academy" (out 2027).
This is my first full-length venture into neurodiversity scholarship!
This is my first full-length venture into neurodiversity scholarship!
Just out in International Journal of Communication: my article “Scandal as Constructivation.” It argues that scandals in Southeast Asia aren’t mere exposures—but performances of trust and legitimacy. A small proof that theory can grow from the local.
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October 17, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Just out in International Journal of Communication: my article “Scandal as Constructivation.” It argues that scandals in Southeast Asia aren’t mere exposures—but performances of trust and legitimacy. A small proof that theory can grow from the local.
ijoc.org/index.php/ij...
ijoc.org/index.php/ij...
I’m inviting you to the opening of my book launch series on Sept 24, 3–5 PM PHT:
“Trust, Scandal, and the State: A National Conversation on Journalism, Democracy, and Public Life.”
“Trust, Scandal, and the State: A National Conversation on Journalism, Democracy, and Public Life.”
September 5, 2025 at 6:37 AM
I’m inviting you to the opening of my book launch series on Sept 24, 3–5 PM PHT:
“Trust, Scandal, and the State: A National Conversation on Journalism, Democracy, and Public Life.”
“Trust, Scandal, and the State: A National Conversation on Journalism, Democracy, and Public Life.”
Navigating Trust is now available with @routledgebooks.bsky.social.
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August 20, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Navigating Trust is now available with @routledgebooks.bsky.social.
Order now!
tinyurl.com/NavigatingTr...
Order now!
tinyurl.com/NavigatingTr...
Out tomorrow: Navigating Trust (Routledge, 2025) — my book on journalism, health, and democracy in the Global South, told through the Dengvaxia vaccine scandal in the Philippines.
Years in the making. Grateful for everyone who walked this road with me.
Secure a copy now
🛒🛍️https://lnkd.in/gFNe9D78
Years in the making. Grateful for everyone who walked this road with me.
Secure a copy now
🛒🛍️https://lnkd.in/gFNe9D78
August 19, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Out tomorrow: Navigating Trust (Routledge, 2025) — my book on journalism, health, and democracy in the Global South, told through the Dengvaxia vaccine scandal in the Philippines.
Years in the making. Grateful for everyone who walked this road with me.
Secure a copy now
🛒🛍️https://lnkd.in/gFNe9D78
Years in the making. Grateful for everyone who walked this road with me.
Secure a copy now
🛒🛍️https://lnkd.in/gFNe9D78
Excited to share that my book, Navigating Trust, Journalism, and Health in the Age of Populism, is now available for pre-order.
Grateful for this endorsement from Prof. @swaisbord.bsky.social.
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Ships after August 19, 2025.
Grateful for this endorsement from Prof. @swaisbord.bsky.social.
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Ships after August 19, 2025.
August 5, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Excited to share that my book, Navigating Trust, Journalism, and Health in the Age of Populism, is now available for pre-order.
Grateful for this endorsement from Prof. @swaisbord.bsky.social.
🔗 tinyurl.com/NavigatingTr...
Ships after August 19, 2025.
Grateful for this endorsement from Prof. @swaisbord.bsky.social.
🔗 tinyurl.com/NavigatingTr...
Ships after August 19, 2025.
My book, Navigating Trust, Journalism, and Health in the Age of Populism, is now available for pre-order.
Pre-order here:
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July 30, 2025 at 5:59 AM
My book, Navigating Trust, Journalism, and Health in the Age of Populism, is now available for pre-order.
Pre-order here:
tinyurl.com/NavigatingTr...
tinyurl.com/NavigatingTr...
tinyurl.com/NavigatingTr...
Pre-order here:
tinyurl.com/NavigatingTr...
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Fresh off the press!
My first solo Q1 article—and first in a top media and comms journal—is now live in @mcsjournal.bsky.social 💫
📝 Held in trust: Relational sovereignties and the affective life of communication
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0163...
My first solo Q1 article—and first in a top media and comms journal—is now live in @mcsjournal.bsky.social 💫
📝 Held in trust: Relational sovereignties and the affective life of communication
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0163...
July 23, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Fresh off the press!
My first solo Q1 article—and first in a top media and comms journal—is now live in @mcsjournal.bsky.social 💫
📝 Held in trust: Relational sovereignties and the affective life of communication
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0163...
My first solo Q1 article—and first in a top media and comms journal—is now live in @mcsjournal.bsky.social 💫
📝 Held in trust: Relational sovereignties and the affective life of communication
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0163...
📘 My book "Navigating Trust, Journalism, and Health in the Age of Populism" drops Aug 19 via Routledge.
Pre-order alerts now open: www.routledge.com/9781032848464
Hardback’s a bit pricey, I know—but great for keeps. Working on paperback/ebook options too.
#TrustCultures #Dengvaxia #GlobalSouth
Pre-order alerts now open: www.routledge.com/9781032848464
Hardback’s a bit pricey, I know—but great for keeps. Working on paperback/ebook options too.
#TrustCultures #Dengvaxia #GlobalSouth
June 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
📘 My book "Navigating Trust, Journalism, and Health in the Age of Populism" drops Aug 19 via Routledge.
Pre-order alerts now open: www.routledge.com/9781032848464
Hardback’s a bit pricey, I know—but great for keeps. Working on paperback/ebook options too.
#TrustCultures #Dengvaxia #GlobalSouth
Pre-order alerts now open: www.routledge.com/9781032848464
Hardback’s a bit pricey, I know—but great for keeps. Working on paperback/ebook options too.
#TrustCultures #Dengvaxia #GlobalSouth
In the Philippines, “drug use” still brings to mind the adik. “Mental health” still echoes baliw.
But what about those of us quietly relying on licit meds—like Ritalin—to survive academic life?
This is my small contribution to that harder conversation.
📝 doi.org/10.31235/osf...
But what about those of us quietly relying on licit meds—like Ritalin—to survive academic life?
This is my small contribution to that harder conversation.
📝 doi.org/10.31235/osf...
OSF
doi.org
June 20, 2025 at 10:39 AM
In the Philippines, “drug use” still brings to mind the adik. “Mental health” still echoes baliw.
But what about those of us quietly relying on licit meds—like Ritalin—to survive academic life?
This is my small contribution to that harder conversation.
📝 doi.org/10.31235/osf...
But what about those of us quietly relying on licit meds—like Ritalin—to survive academic life?
This is my small contribution to that harder conversation.
📝 doi.org/10.31235/osf...
I am grateful to share that my solo article, "Held in Trust: Relational Sovereignties and the Affective Life of Communication," will appear in the Crosscurrents section of Media, Culture, and Society @mcsjournal.bsky.social
#TrustCultures #GlobalSouthScholarship #RelationalSovereignty #AcademicLife
#TrustCultures #GlobalSouthScholarship #RelationalSovereignty #AcademicLife
June 19, 2025 at 9:47 AM
I am grateful to share that my solo article, "Held in Trust: Relational Sovereignties and the Affective Life of Communication," will appear in the Crosscurrents section of Media, Culture, and Society @mcsjournal.bsky.social
#TrustCultures #GlobalSouthScholarship #RelationalSovereignty #AcademicLife
#TrustCultures #GlobalSouthScholarship #RelationalSovereignty #AcademicLife
Read that recent viral post on “cognitive debt” and ChatGPT?
The one based on the MIT Media Lab study showing how AI might impair memory, engagement, and learning?
Well, here’s my take.
Share around folks!
The one based on the MIT Media Lab study showing how AI might impair memory, engagement, and learning?
Well, here’s my take.
Share around folks!
Rethinking “Cognitive Debt”: A Neurodivergent Response to MIT’s Brain-on-ChatGPT Study
In a widely circulated preprint titled “Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing,” researchers from MIT Media Lab argue that reliance on ChatG...
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June 19, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Read that recent viral post on “cognitive debt” and ChatGPT?
The one based on the MIT Media Lab study showing how AI might impair memory, engagement, and learning?
Well, here’s my take.
Share around folks!
The one based on the MIT Media Lab study showing how AI might impair memory, engagement, and learning?
Well, here’s my take.
Share around folks!
Heard or read about that MIT study on cognitive decline and ChatGPT?
This is my brief and preliminary response.
This is my brief and preliminary response.
This is my first attempt at joining the conversation here on LinkedIn. | Karl Patrick Mendoza
This is my first attempt at joining the conversation here on LinkedIn.
I respond to the recent MIT study on “cognitive debt” and ChatGPT use in writing. While the study raises important concerns, I o...
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June 19, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Heard or read about that MIT study on cognitive decline and ChatGPT?
This is my brief and preliminary response.
This is my brief and preliminary response.
Last day to express interest in my 12-week online course on qualitative data analysis with MAXQDA.
Covers RTA + MCDA, starts July 5.
Only 6 slots left.
₱2,000 (students) / ₱3,000 (professionals)
Form: forms.gle/6poc432Ydudn...
Details: drive.google.com/file/d/1u56d...
Covers RTA + MCDA, starts July 5.
Only 6 slots left.
₱2,000 (students) / ₱3,000 (professionals)
Form: forms.gle/6poc432Ydudn...
Details: drive.google.com/file/d/1u56d...
June 12, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Last day to express interest in my 12-week online course on qualitative data analysis with MAXQDA.
Covers RTA + MCDA, starts July 5.
Only 6 slots left.
₱2,000 (students) / ₱3,000 (professionals)
Form: forms.gle/6poc432Ydudn...
Details: drive.google.com/file/d/1u56d...
Covers RTA + MCDA, starts July 5.
Only 6 slots left.
₱2,000 (students) / ₱3,000 (professionals)
Form: forms.gle/6poc432Ydudn...
Details: drive.google.com/file/d/1u56d...
🆕 Preprint now out via SocArXiv: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
This is the first paper from our Tiwala at Pagsunod (TaP) project. We argue that political trust in the Philippines is not pre-political or abstract—it’s moral, relational, and lived.
This is the first paper from our Tiwala at Pagsunod (TaP) project. We argue that political trust in the Philippines is not pre-political or abstract—it’s moral, relational, and lived.
June 11, 2025 at 7:45 PM
🆕 Preprint now out via SocArXiv: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
This is the first paper from our Tiwala at Pagsunod (TaP) project. We argue that political trust in the Philippines is not pre-political or abstract—it’s moral, relational, and lived.
This is the first paper from our Tiwala at Pagsunod (TaP) project. We argue that political trust in the Philippines is not pre-political or abstract—it’s moral, relational, and lived.
Reposting for visibility!
My book, Navigating Trust, Journalism, and Health in the Age of Populism, is in production with Routledge. It explores trust and crisis in the Philippines through the Dengvaxia scandal.
Scan the QR code on the cover or sign up here for updates: forms.gle/TH9cBYgm3qTn...
My book, Navigating Trust, Journalism, and Health in the Age of Populism, is in production with Routledge. It explores trust and crisis in the Philippines through the Dengvaxia scandal.
Scan the QR code on the cover or sign up here for updates: forms.gle/TH9cBYgm3qTn...
June 9, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Reposting for visibility!
My book, Navigating Trust, Journalism, and Health in the Age of Populism, is in production with Routledge. It explores trust and crisis in the Philippines through the Dengvaxia scandal.
Scan the QR code on the cover or sign up here for updates: forms.gle/TH9cBYgm3qTn...
My book, Navigating Trust, Journalism, and Health in the Age of Populism, is in production with Routledge. It explores trust and crisis in the Philippines through the Dengvaxia scandal.
Scan the QR code on the cover or sign up here for updates: forms.gle/TH9cBYgm3qTn...
Join my first online certificate course on qualitative data analysis with @maxqda.bsky.social !
12 weeks, RTA + MCDA, rates: ₱2,000 (students) / ₱3,000 (professionals).
Only 20 slots. Starts July 5.
Forms close June 12.
Form: forms.gle/6poc432Ydudn...
Details: drive.google.com/file/d/1u56d...
12 weeks, RTA + MCDA, rates: ₱2,000 (students) / ₱3,000 (professionals).
Only 20 slots. Starts July 5.
Forms close June 12.
Form: forms.gle/6poc432Ydudn...
Details: drive.google.com/file/d/1u56d...
June 7, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Join my first online certificate course on qualitative data analysis with @maxqda.bsky.social !
12 weeks, RTA + MCDA, rates: ₱2,000 (students) / ₱3,000 (professionals).
Only 20 slots. Starts July 5.
Forms close June 12.
Form: forms.gle/6poc432Ydudn...
Details: drive.google.com/file/d/1u56d...
12 weeks, RTA + MCDA, rates: ₱2,000 (students) / ₱3,000 (professionals).
Only 20 slots. Starts July 5.
Forms close June 12.
Form: forms.gle/6poc432Ydudn...
Details: drive.google.com/file/d/1u56d...
My first book, "Navigating Trust, Journalism, and Health in the Age of Populism," is in production with Routledge. If you would like to receive updates and join the mailing list, please sign up here: forms.gle/jatqEJGeZGZn....
June 1, 2025 at 11:27 PM
My first book, "Navigating Trust, Journalism, and Health in the Age of Populism," is in production with Routledge. If you would like to receive updates and join the mailing list, please sign up here: forms.gle/jatqEJGeZGZn....
Just out: my OSF preprint
Cognitive Scaffolds, Not Caves
doi.org/10.31219/osf...
Not a love letter to AI. Not a takedown either.
It’s a neurodivergent scholar’s account of using ChatGPT to stay present, make sense, and write from the margins.
Cognitive Scaffolds, Not Caves
doi.org/10.31219/osf...
Not a love letter to AI. Not a takedown either.
It’s a neurodivergent scholar’s account of using ChatGPT to stay present, make sense, and write from the margins.
OSF
doi.org
May 19, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Just out: my OSF preprint
Cognitive Scaffolds, Not Caves
doi.org/10.31219/osf...
Not a love letter to AI. Not a takedown either.
It’s a neurodivergent scholar’s account of using ChatGPT to stay present, make sense, and write from the margins.
Cognitive Scaffolds, Not Caves
doi.org/10.31219/osf...
Not a love letter to AI. Not a takedown either.
It’s a neurodivergent scholar’s account of using ChatGPT to stay present, make sense, and write from the margins.
Just published my first piece on SoTL and relational pedagogy—on how trust, care, and culture shaped the way I taught qualitative research at PUP.
Read here: drhiddencurriculum.wordpress.com/2025/05/08/n...
#SoTL #Pedagogy #QualMethods
Read here: drhiddencurriculum.wordpress.com/2025/05/08/n...
#SoTL #Pedagogy #QualMethods
Not just a course, but a culture: the Hidden Curriculum of undergraduate research education
Dr Karl Patrick R. Mendoza, Associate Professor at the Department of Communication Research Polytechnic University of the Philippines I used to think the syllabus was the limit. If it wasn’t on the…
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May 8, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Just published my first piece on SoTL and relational pedagogy—on how trust, care, and culture shaped the way I taught qualitative research at PUP.
Read here: drhiddencurriculum.wordpress.com/2025/05/08/n...
#SoTL #Pedagogy #QualMethods
Read here: drhiddencurriculum.wordpress.com/2025/05/08/n...
#SoTL #Pedagogy #QualMethods
New preprint up: When Trust Divides: Scandals, Populists, and the Fragility of Democratic Legitimacy.
doi.org/10.31219/osf...
This is part of my broader trust, media, and crisis politics project. I would welcome your thoughts and engagement.
doi.org/10.31219/osf...
This is part of my broader trust, media, and crisis politics project. I would welcome your thoughts and engagement.
OSF
doi.org
April 28, 2025 at 10:27 PM
New preprint up: When Trust Divides: Scandals, Populists, and the Fragility of Democratic Legitimacy.
doi.org/10.31219/osf...
This is part of my broader trust, media, and crisis politics project. I would welcome your thoughts and engagement.
doi.org/10.31219/osf...
This is part of my broader trust, media, and crisis politics project. I would welcome your thoughts and engagement.
I’m thrilled to share that I’ve recently been accepted into the MAXQDA Trainers Network! It took a bit of time to finalize everything, but I’m glad it’s now official.
Link to my trainer profile: www.maxqda.com/workshoptrai...
Link to my trainer profile: www.maxqda.com/workshoptrai...
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April 8, 2025 at 8:38 AM
I’m thrilled to share that I’ve recently been accepted into the MAXQDA Trainers Network! It took a bit of time to finalize everything, but I’m glad it’s now official.
Link to my trainer profile: www.maxqda.com/workshoptrai...
Link to my trainer profile: www.maxqda.com/workshoptrai...