Welcome to Streetprint Manila

Streetprint Manila is a research project that is part of a larger research endeavour called “Six Continents and Between”. Initiated by Prof. Gary Kelly of the University of Alberta, 6CAB seeks to investigate popular print culture across various geographical, sociocultural, and ethnolinguistic contexts. More specifically, it aims to look at reading patterns and preferences of the Filipino Everyman, or those whom we would largely consider members of the “masa” class.

What Wattpad?

One would think that the phenomenon of online self-publishing and the relative creative freedom it affords to writers would greatly affect, even diminish, the way that traditional publishing works. But while Wattpad has enabled many writers, especially younger and emerging ones, to have an online presence and following, it is interesting to note that what started out as a novel and independent way of publishing is being re-appropriated into mainstream publishing.