JM Lanuza

Jose Mari Hall Lanuza is a Communication PhD student and Research Enhancement and Leadership (REAL) Fellow at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Philippines Manila. He studies political communication and disinformation, media systems, and elections. Using mainly qualitative methods, his research focuses critically on Global Majority contexts that complicate mainstream understandings of, and assumptions about, the politics of and in media and communication. Centering the concepts of power, harm, violence, and coercion, his work aims to expose structures of exploitation and empower marginalized communities in the public sphere.

Keywords: disinformation, media systems, elections, political communication, ethnography

Recent work / in-progress:

• Comparative research on election integrity coalitions fighting disinformation in the Global Majority (in progress)
• Ignoring watch dogs: Influence operations, new campaign tactics, and legacy media bypass in the Philippines (co-authored with Jonathan Ong, forthcoming, Routledge Handbook of Political Campaigning)
• The Perils of Platform Determinism: Reimagining Global South Disinformation Interventions (co-authored with Jonathan Ong, forthcoming)