00000cam a22000004a 4500 UP-1685675941123958653 Buklod 20191212093606.0 a r |||| u| ta 140209s2013 xx r |000 0|eng d 9789715427098 (iLib)UPTAC-00019264175 Tac-20525 UP Press Php500.00 DML UPVTC eng DMLUC DS 686.614 M39 2013 Mayuga, Sylvia L. Virtual nation insights into contemporary Philippines Sylvia L. Mayuga. Quezon City University of the Philippines Press c2013. x, 331 p. 23 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Virtual Nation explores "a new way of being nation that Filipinos at home and all over the world are creating in cyberspace," as it contends that Filipinos are "still creating the nation our revolutionary forefathers envision and died for." Most of the essays in this book are opinion columns originally written for online publication from 2003 to 2010. In those seven turbulent years, major global challenges to peace and survival in the threefold crises of our time -- ecological, economic, and spiritual -- converged. That they emerged under the troubled Gloria Macapagal Arroyo presidency, coeval with the war-torn, terror-laden George W. Bush years, became a double spur to publish this book of "breaking history." Philippines Social life and customs 21st century. Philippines Politics and government 21st century. FI UPTAC UPTAC DS 686.614 M39 2013 Book