Czarina Saloma-Akpedonu, Dr. rer. soc.

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Czarina Saloma-Akpedonu earned her academic degrees from Bielefeld Universitaet (Dr. rer. soc., magna cum laude), Peking University (MA), and University of the Philippines in Diliman (BA, cum laude). She is President of the Philippine Sociological Society, Secretary of the Board of the  International Sociological Association (ISA) Research Committee on the Sociology of Science and Technology, and  Editor of the Philippine Sociological Review. In 2007, she was named Outstanding Young Scientist by the the National Academy of Science and Technology.

She is the co-author (with Erik Akpedonu) of "Casa Boholana: Vintage Houses of Bohol" (Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2011), a sociohistorical introduction-cum-architectural guide to the province’s traditional houses. She is also the author of "Possible Worlds in Impossible Spaces: Knowledge, Globality, Gender and Information Technology in the Philipines  (Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2006), an ethnographic study on the "doing" of IT in the Philippines.

Among her engagements: Fellow of the Asian Scholarship Foundation (ASF)/Ford Foundation where she studied technological actors in the Malaysian automotive and information technology industries (2003/04); Gender and ICT specialist for eHomemakers (Malaysia) and International Development Research Council’s research project on Homeworkers and ICTs in Southeast Asia (2005); Consultant (Sociologist and gender specialist) in the development of a Metro Iloilo-Guimaras Tourism Strategic Plan (2007); and Workshop director of the Sixth Asian Public Intellectuals Workshop and editor of book on workshop papers (2007).

Areas of Interest: 

Glocalization, sociology of technology, gender issues, and everyday life-worlds

Curriculum

Academic Background: 

Sociology, Bielefeld University

Contribution: 

Publications
Articles in journals (International)

  • Saloma, Czarina. 2004. "Review Article of R. Pertiera's Science, Technology and Everyday Culture in the Philippines". Pilipinas 39, dated Sept 2002, released March 2004 (Australia)
  • Lopez, Leslie, Czarina Saloma and Minda Valencia. 2003. "Cultural Capital, Contextual factors and Teachers' Well-Being: A Second Look at Project TAO (Teacher for Optimum Well-Being". Journal of Southeast Asian Education 4 (2). Bangkok: Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization. 58-92
  • Saloma, Czarina. 2002. "Making Women Visible: Gender Spaces and ICT in the Philippines". Gender, Technology and Development 6 (1). Bangkok: Asian Institute of Technology and Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd. 21-42

Articles in journals (National)

  • Saloma, Czarina. 2005 (2001). "How to solve the 'Hotmail problem': Understanding changes in the global division of labor". Philippine Sociological Review. Vol. 49 (January-December), 1-17
  • Saloma, Czarina. 2005. Bringing Life on the Screen Down to Earth: An Account from Sociology of Interactive Technology. Loyola Schools Review, Ateneo de Manila University. 22-29
  • Saloma, Czarina. 2002. "Review article: 'Thin Texts' and Texting (Raul Pertierra et al.)". Philippine Studies. Vol. 50/Fourth quarter. 571-574

Working Papers

  • Saloma, Czarina. Forthcoming. The Culture of Knowledge in a "Developing" Society: Malaysian "Technological Elite" in PROTON and the Multimedia Super Corridor. IKMAS Working Paper Series. Institut Kajian Malaysia dan Antarabangsa. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
  • Saloma, Czarina. 2001. "Doing IT: A Gender Perspective on the New Economy". Working Paper 339. Sociology of Development Research Center. Universität Bielefeld

Consultancy Reports

  • Jeanne Frances Illo, Czarina Saloma, Cindy Calago, and Frances De los Trino-Botor. 2003. CIDA Gender Equality Monitor. Canadian International Development Agency and the Institute of Philippine Culture, Ateneo de Manila University
  • Lopez, Leslie, Czarina Saloma and Minda Valencia. 2002. "Cultural Capital, Contextual factors and Teachers' Well-Being: A Second Look at Project TAO (Teacher for Optimum Well-Being) (Final Report)". Quezon City: SEAMEO-INNOTECH (Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization-Regional Center for Educational Innovation and Technology)
  • Saloma, Czarina. 1991. "A Case Study of Overseas Contract Workers in Lian, Batangas" in: T. Nicolas (ed.). The Overseas Contract Workers of Region IV. Quezon City: Overseas Workers Welfare Administration. 67-88

Books/Chapters in Books

  • Saloma, Czarina. Forthcoming. Female Spaces in the ICT Industry: Revisiting "Feminization of Labor" Thesis in: Cecilia Ng (ed.) Women and Technology book project. Bangkok: Asian Institute of Technology
  • Saloma, Czarina. 2001. "Wie Informationstechnologie gemacht wird: Eine geschlechtsspezifische Perspektive auf die Neue Ökonomie in den Philippinen" in: G. Lachenmann and P. Dannecker (Hrsg.). Die geschlechstsspezifische Einbettung der Ökonomie: Empirische Untersuchungen über Entwicklungs- und Transformationsprozesse. Hamburg: Lit. 295-318
  • Saloma, Czarina. 2001. "Doing Information Technology in the Philippines: A Gender Perspective" in: J. Clancy, G. Lachenmann, M. Skutsch and I. Baud (eds.). Proceedings of the EADI Workshop on Gender and Globalisation: Process of Social and Economic Restructuring. Occasional Paper 10. Noordwijkerhout: Universität Twente / European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes. 43-70
  • Saloma, Czarina. 2000. "Understanding Science and Technology" in: A. Cuyegkeng (ed.). Readings in Science and Society. Quezon City: Office of Research and Publications, Ateneo de Manila University. 267-275
  • Saloma, Czarina. 1999. "Imagining Migration: The Community in the Construction of Female Overseas Employment" in: J. F. Illo (ed.). Women and Gender Relations in the Philippines: Selected Readings in Women's Studies I. Quezon City: Women's Studies Association of the Philippines. 149-164
  • Illo, Jeanne Frances and Czarina Saloma. 1997. Handbook for Monitoring WID/GE Performance of Development Projects. Quezon City: Institute of Philippine Culture
  • Saloma, Czarina. 1991. "Abortion: A Woman's Choice". Piglas-Diwa: 4(4) Quezon City: Center for Women's Resources

Participation in Workshops, Conferences, and Lectures

  • Facilitator, "Training of Researcher Workshop", Homeworkers and ICTs in Southeast Asia (a research project of e-Homemakers and International Development Research Council), ASEAN Foundation - ICT4D Collaboratory, Jakarta 10350
  • Speaker, "How Malaysians Create Cars and Information Technology Products: Lessons for the Philippine Jeepney and IT Industries?", IKMAS Seminar Series, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi (Malaysia), 19 August 2004
  • Paper Presenter, "How Malaysians Create Cars and Information Technology Products: Specifics of an Emerging Knowledge Society", Fourth International Malaysian Studies Conference (MSC4), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi (Malaysia), 3-5 August 2004
  • Paper Presenter, "Technological elites in the Malaysian car manufacturing industry: Manifestations of a knowledge-based society and modernity", ASEAN Inter-University Conference, Universiti Saens Malaysia, Penang (Malaysia), 14-16 May 2004
  • Paper presenter,"Ethnographies and Natural Science Research Techniques: Exploring New Ways of Monitoring Poverty", Center for Poverty Analysis/Asian Development Bank, Manila, (Philippines), 24-26 March 2004
  • Paper presenter, "Doing IT in the Philippines: Exploring the Specifics of IT Fabrication in a Glocalized World", Asia-Europe Conference on Computer Mediated Interactive Communication Technologies: The Internet and Mobile Phones, Development Academy of the Philippines, Tagaytay (Philippines), 20-22 October 2003
  • Resource speaker, "Are ICTs Empowering Women? Doing IT in the Philippines", Women's Electronic Networking Training (WENT)/Asia Pacific Women's Information Network Center, Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul (South Korea), 16 October 2003
  • Keynote speaker, "New Spaces for Sociological Theorizing in the Philippines", Philippine Sociological Society Mini-Conference, Philippine Social Sciences Center, Diliman, Quezon City (Philippines), 26 September 2003
  • Lecturer, "Gender Relations in the Philippines", Philippine Culture Lecture Series for the Ateneo de Manila University-University of San Francisco Maria Elena Yuchengco Philippine Immersion Program (Philippines), 25 June 2003
  • Paper presenter, "Face-to-Screen Interaction and its Implications for Identity-Creation and Social Activism Among the Youth", The Fifth National Social Congress (NSSC V), Philippine Social Science Council, PSSC Center, Quezon City (Philippines), 15-17 May 2003
  • Discussant (as a substitute for Dr. Carolyn Sobritchea), Panel on "Nurturance of the Filipina Youth", The Fifth National Social Congress (NSSC V), Philippine Social Science Council, PSSC Center, Quezon City (Philippines), 15-17 May 2003
  • Paper presenter, "State Colleges and Universities and Upgrading Public Education: Creating an enabling environment for public school teachers", Commission on Higher Education and KPMG Laya and Mananghaya & Co. Expert Conference on the Rationalization of the Public Higher Education System, SEAMEO-INNOTECH Center, Quezon City (Philippines), 12-13 February 2003
  • Paper presentor, How to solve the 'Hotmail problem' (and how we can understand changes in the global division of labor)", World Institute of Development Economics Research/United Nations University ICT in Development Conference, United Nations University, Helsinki (Finland), 10-12 May 2002
  • Paper presentor, "Towards a Sociology of Technology in a Glocalized World", Workshop on Gender and Translocal Networking through Information Technology, Sociology of Development Research Center, Universität Bielefeld (Germany), 8-9 February 2002
  • Paper presentor, "Gendered Bodies and Identities: The information technology industry in the Philippines reconsidered", European Philippine Studies Conference 2001, Universidad de Alcala de Henares (Spain), 10-12 September 2001
  • Paper presentor, "Imagined Technological Communities: How to solve the 'hotmail problem' and other strategies of glocalization", Foschungskolloquium, Sociology of Development Research Center, Universität Bielefeld (Germany), 16 May 2001
  • Paper presentor, "Doing Information Technology in the Philippines: A gender perspective" Gender Working Group Conference of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes, Noordwijkerhoot, (Netherlands), 20-21 April 2001
  • Delegate, Young Feminist Scholars in Asia 2000/Women's Studies in Asia Conference 2000, Ewha Womans University, (South Korea), 17-21 October 2000
  • Paper presentor, "Information Technology in-the-making", 4S/EASST (Society for the Social Studies of Science / European Association for the Study of Science and Technology) Conference 2000, University of Vienna (Austria), 27-30 September 2000
  • Paper presentor, "Interfaces and Practices: Methodological and theoretical issues in the study of Information Technology in the Philippines", Philippine Studies Conference 2000, Philippine Social Science Center (Philippines) 10-12 July 2000
  • Poster presentor, "Interfaces and Practices: A Sociological Crossing-over", Philippine-American Academy of Science and Engineering Annual Meeting, Makati (Philippines), 7-8 July 2000
  • Paper presentor, "Modes of Glocalization: Thinking about IT in the Philippines", Ateneo de Manila University and La Trobe University (Australia), Researchers' Meeting, Ateneo de Manila University (Philippines), 24-25 January 2000
  • Paper presentor, "Imagining Migration: The Community in the Construction of Female Overseas Employment", International Conference on Gender and Development in Asia, City University of Hong Kong (People's Republic of China), 26-28 November 1997