This article looks at mobile media access in the Philippines and the kind of social intimacies that have emerged from it. To frame our discussion, we use the concept of ‘glocal intimacies’. This pertains to how mobile technologies have normalised and intensified the entanglement of people’s relationships of closeness with the ever-shifting and constantly negotiated flows between global modernity and local everyday life. We show that the uneven access that Filipinos have has led to equally uneven ways in which they imagine and enact intimate relationships. Drawing on case studies emblematic of the country’s key income clusters, we point out the emergence of a contradictory situation, wherein those with relatively high-quality access are those who are least dependent on mobile media for their glocal intimacies. Meanwhile, those with relatively low-quality access are those who are actually most dependent on mobile-mediated communication for such intimacies.

本文着眼于菲律宾的移动媒体访问以及由此产生的社会亲密关系。为了进行讨论，我们使用了“全球亲密关系”的概念。这与移动技术如何规范和加强人们的亲密关系的纠缠和全球现代性与当地日常生活之间不断变化和不断协商的交往的纠缠有关。我们表明，菲律宾人的不平等接触导致他们想象和建立亲密关系的方式也同样不平等。利用代表该国主要收入集群的案例研究，我们指出了一种矛盾的情况的出现，其中访问质量相对较高的人是最不依赖移动媒体来获取本地联系的人。与此同时，