Jason Vincent A. Cabañes is Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Media and Culture at Goldsmiths, University of London. He holds a PhD in Communications Studies from the University of Leeds. His research focuses on the entangled mediations of cross-cultural intimacies and solidarities across the world. As part of this work, he was recently Principal Investigator for the project “Imaginaries of Intimacy and Cultural Diplomacy”, funded by The Korea Foundation. He is also co-editor of the book "Mobile Media and Social Intimacies in Asia" (Springer) and co-author of the short monograph "Consuming digital disinformation: How Filipinos engage with racist and historically distorted online political content" (ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute). His other publications have appeared in top-tier journals such as Communication, Culture, and Critique, the International Journal of Cultural Studies, and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.