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Karl Patrick R. Mendoza

Communication scholar of trust, culture, institutions, and public life.
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Ambivalent governance and journalistic authority: An exploratory study of scandal news engagement in three Philippine cities

Karl Patrick R. Mendoza, Ena Marie O. Dizon, Miguel Victor T. Durian, Mark Steven A. Pandan, Joseph Reylan B. Viray

Asian Communication Research, vol. 23(1), 2026, pp. 166–186

When thinking is judged: Academic ethics and the moralization of cognition

Karl Patrick R. Mendoza

Journal of Academic Ethics, vol. 24, 2026, pp. Article 81

Filipino public life as a moral–relational field: Toward a Philippine sociological agenda

Karl Patrick R. Mendoza

Philippine Sociological Review, vol. 74, 2026, pp. 146--161

From “robs to riches”: Scandal constructivation and the ambivalent work of pagsasaayos

Karl Patrick R. Mendoza

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints, vol. 74, 2026, pp. 449--466

Critique without guarantees: Justification and the social authorization of criticism

Karl Patrick R. Mendoza, Rae Francis Quilantang

Journal of Multicultural Discourses, 2026

In relation, not replacement: A reflexive case for generative AI in qualitative research

Karl Patrick R. Mendoza, R. F. C. Quilantang

Qualitative Research Journal, 2026, pp. 1--12

Everyday legitimacy in reformist governance: Trust cultures and the relational politics of authority in Pasig City

K. P. R. Mendoza, N. M. O. Go, E. R. D. Gianan, B. P. Buten, R. F. D. Patag

Advances in Southeast Asian Studies, vol. 19, 2026, pp. O1--O21

Teaching in entanglement: Co-thinking, cognitive justice, and theory making in the age of generative AI

Rae Francis C. Quilantang, Karl Patrick R. Mendoza

Communication Teacher, vol. 40(2), 2026, pp. 250-252

Affective silencing and moral masculinity: Male vulnerability in Philippine teleseryes

Stephanie Nicole Asis, Aliyana Chenille V. Bunag, Mary Mae R. Cabaltera, Patrick James Fernandez, Roj Vincent E. Obligacion, John Patrick A. Oblino, Ferzt Wilgard B. Tavera, Karl Patrick R. Mendoza

Communication, Culture & Critique, 2026

Seriously (un)funny: Humor in selected political illustrations during the 2022 Philippine national elections as portrait of resistance

Paolo Alejandrino, Diana Marie Igual, Karl Patrick R. Mendoza

Humanities Diliman, vol. 22(2), 2025, pp. 184-2013

Negotiating depletion and endurance: Hiya, tino, and bait as vernacular grammars of political scandal in the Philippines

Karl Patrick R. Mendoza

Social Transformations: Journal of the Global South, vol. 13(1), 2025, pp. Article 5

Held in trust: Relational sovereignties and the affective life of communication

Karl Patrick R. Mendoza

Media, Culture & Society, vol. 47(6), 2025, pp. 1294-1303

Scandal as constructivation: Trust cultures and the politics of legitimacy in Southeast Asia

Karl Patrick R. Mendoza

International Journal of Communication, vol. 19, 2025, pp. 3264–3285

Critiquing power and ethics: Teaching multimodal critical discourse analysis and ethical literary criticism through Amazon Prime’s The Boys

Rae Francis Quilantang, Karl Patrick R. Mendoza

Communication Teacher, vol. 39(4), 2025, pp. 311-316

Health Scandalization and Exclusionary Politics: A Social Semiotic CDA of Online News Coverage of the Dengvaxia Vaccine Scandal in the Philippines

Karl Patrick R. Mendoza

The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social and Community Studies, vol. 20(1), 2024, pp. 183-208

Locating the Ideological in the Functional: A Multimodal Critical Analysis of Online News Reports on Typhoon Lando

Karl Patrick R. Mendoza

Asia Pacific Social Science Review, vol. 19(1), 2019, pp. 202-210