Cheeno Marlo Sayuno

Postdoctoral Research Associate

PhD Communication, University of the Philippines Diliman, Philippines

MA Communication Arts, University of the Philippines Los Baños, Philippines

BA Mass Communication (Major in Journalism), Cavite State University, Philippines

Other professional appointments

Associate Professor of Communication, Media, and Children’s Literature (on leave), Communication Division, Department of Humanities, College of Arts and Sciences, University of the Philippines Los Baños

Research focus

Children’s media, literature, and culture; transmedia studies; communication and media research; arts-based research; narrative analysis; and qualitative gaming experience studies.

Honors and Awards

  • UP Artist 1, University of the Philippines (UP) Arts Productivity System Awards (2019-2021 and 2022-2024)
  • UP Los Baños Centennial Professorial Chair (2023 and 2024-2025)
  • Outstanding Teacher Award (Senior Category), College of Arts and Sciences, UP Los Baños 2022
  • Outstanding Researcher for Humanities and Social Science (Senior Category), Outstanding Teacher Award (Senior Category), College of Arts and Sciences, UP Los Baños, 2022
  • 1st Place, Short Story for Children (Filipino), 1st Normal Awards for Gender-Inclusive Literature, Phillipine Normal University, 2021
  • One UP Faculty Grant in Creative Writing (Children’s Literature), (2019–2021 and 2022-2024)
  • 3rd Prize, Story Story for Children (Filipino), Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, 2017
  • Finalist, 13th Romeo Forbes Children’s Story Writing Competition, 2016
  • Salanga Prize (Honorable Mention), Philippine Board on Books for Young People, 2015
  • 2nd Prize, Short Story for Children (English), Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, 2013

Biography

Cheeno Marlo Sayuno is a research scholar and children’s storybook writer from the Philippines. His dissertation explored how Filipino children’s transmedia engagements lead to creativity, agency, and empowerment.

Publications & Papers

Sayuno, C.M.M., "Mula Batibot Patungong Team Yey!: Pagmamapa ng Pamana ni Rene Villanueva sa Estetika at Representasyon ng Bata sa mga Child-Oriented na Palabas sa Telebisyon" in Sayuno, C.M.M., & Evasco, E. (Eds.), Bata, Hiwaga, at Bansa: Mga Sanaysay sa Buhay at Mga Akda ni Rene O. Villanueva. UP Press, 2023

Sayuno, C.M.M., “Of Fabulous Flowers and Powers: Queer Narratives of/for the Filipino Child in Philippine Contemporary Children’s Literature,” International LGBTQ+ Literature for Children and Young Adults, B.J. Epstein and E. Chapman (Eds.), Anthem Press, 2021

Sayuno, C.M.M., “Gameplays Versus Playstyles: The Social Construction of Transmediated Communities Among Filipino Children Gamers in Minecraft and Roblox,” ASEAN Journal of Community Engagement, 5(2), 289-314, 2021

Sayuno, C.M.M., “A Hyperpersonal Classroom? Experiences in Remote Learning Among Communication Arts Students at the UP Los Banos,” Diliman Review, 65(1), 2021

Sayuno, C.M.M., “Freeing the Elephant-eating Boa: Theorizing Children in Philippine Social Science Research,” Plaridel: A Philippine Journal of Communication, Media, and Society, 15 (2), December 2018

Sayuno, C.M.M., “The Empowered Child in the Absence of a Father: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Ayroso’s Mister World and His Box and De Vera’s Tatay, Through the Winds and Waves,” UP Los Baños Journal, Vol. 15, January–December 2017

Sayuno, C.M.M., “Complementarity in Movement and Performance: Critiquing Gender Roles in Philippine Cultural Dances,” Philippines Communication Society (PCS) Review, December 2017

Sayuno, C.M.M., “Oplan Tokhang and Other Stories of Childhood: The Filipino Children Across Literature and (Trans)Media Places During the Duterte Regime,” Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures, forthcoming

Sayuno, C.M.M., “The Pandemic Through the Child’s Window: Languaging Health in Filipino Storybooks on COVID-19,” International Research in Children’s Literature, forthcoming

Sayuno, C.M.M., “The Kuya in Selected Filipino Storybooks: ‘Subordinate Storylines’ of Male Characters in Narratives of Adversities,” Gender and the Male Character in 21st Century Fairy Tale Narratives, forthcoming
 

Presentations

Sayuno, C.M.M, “The Child Character in Transmedia Spaces: Portrayal, Navigation, and Negotiation of Filipino Children Across Literature and Media during the Duterte Regime,” 74th International Communication Association Conference: Communication and Global Human Rights, Gold Coast, Australia, June 20-24, 2024

Sayuno, C.M.M. “Weaving Stories from the Peripheries: Issues of Representation, Autheticity, and Voice in the Philippine Cultural Contexts,” Asian Festival of Children’s Content, Singapore, May 23-26, 2024

Sayuno, C.M.M., “Mediatization of Philippine Children’s Literary Production: Experiences in Storybook Development, Distribution and Consumption in Pandemic Learning Environment,” Communication Research International Conference, November 17-18, 2023

Sayuno, C.M.M., “The Researcher as Avatar: Proposing a Techno-Immersion Methodology in Transmedia Research Based on Children’s Engagement in Mobile Games,” Communication Research International Conference, November 17-18, 2023

Sayuno, C.M.M, and Labor, J.S., “Co-Constructing the Young Filipino Gamer: Mobile Gaming and Media Experiences in the Philippines,” 73rd International Communication Association Conference: Reclaiming Authenticity in Communication, Toronto, Canada, May 25-29, 2023

Sayuno, C.M.M., “Mapping Transmediality in Philippine Children’s Literature: The Cases of Janus Silang and Room to Read Storybooks,” Children’s Literature Across Media: Concepts and Perspectives of Transmedia Narratives, Goethe Universität, Aarhus Universitet, Institut für Jugenbuchforschung, and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bad Homburg, Germany, September 29–October 1, 2022.

Sayuno, C.M.M., "The Child, the Character, the World: Theorizing Children's Agentic Transmedia Engagement in Various Online/Offline Games," Children and Media Research Escalator Session, 72nd Annual International Communication Association Conference: One World, One Network, May 26-30, 2022, Paris, France

Sayuno, C.M.M., “Tales of Asian Love: The Translanguaging of Romance in Japanese, Thai, and Filipino Boys’ Love Series,” 7th Biennial International e-Conference of Japan Studies Association-ASEAN, December 15-17, 2021

Sayuno, C.M.M., “Philippine Children’s Literature Amidst Political Unrest: A Textual Analysis of Storybooks Set in the Marcos and Duterte Regimes (poster),” Modernity, Memory, and Asian Childhood International Conference, Taiwan Children’s Literature Research Association, November 20, 2021

Sayuno, C.M.M., “The Child Character across Media and Nonmedia Storyworlds: Theorizing Agentic Transmedia Engagement through Creativity towards Transmedia Literacy,” 25th Congress of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature: Aesthetics and Pedagogic Entanglements, Santiago, Chile, October 22, 2021