Dr. Karl Patrick R. Mendoza is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Research at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) and an Airlangga Postdoctoral (APD) Fellow at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Airlangga. He serves as Vice-Chair of the Emerging Scholars Network of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) and is the Founding Convenor of the Trust, Culture & Publics Network (TCPN), a national and regional collective advancing interdisciplinary inquiry on trust, legitimacy, and democratic life across the Global South.

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