ALiGN: Alternative Global Network Media Lab

Thursday, November 1, 2018

I’m burning for a Silicon Valley revolution!

It’s time to stop the culture of online harassment and “networked misogyny” (because let’s face it, these online attacks are disproportionately gendered). While increasing the number of women in leadership roles is a... More

It’s time to stop the culture of online harassment and “networked misogyny” (because let’s face it, these online attacks are disproportionately gendered). While increasing the number of women in leadership roles is a necessary condition for effecting cultural change, it is by no means sufficient. Assuming we want to foster diversity and... More

Thursday, November 1, 2018

Anti-clickbait: These online communities are helping fight against the “clickbait economy”

Scientists are working to resurrect woolly mammoths! You might remember headlines from a while ago proclaiming this Jurassic Park-esque... More

Scientists are working to resurrect woolly mammoths! You might remember headlines from a while ago proclaiming this Jurassic Park-esque possibility. It had something to do with retrieving frozen DNA. Or maybe something about using that gene-editing technique that everyone keeps talking about? CRISPY, or CRISPER, or whatever it’s called? Or... More

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Thursday, November 1, 2018

[Publication] Dis/Connection

Merlyna Lim just gets another publication out. Titled "Dis/Connection: The Co-Evolution of Sociocultural and Material Infrastructures of the Internet in Indonesia", her latest article is part of the special issue #105 of Indonesia (published by Cornell... More

Merlyna Lim just gets another publication out. Titled "Dis/Connection: The Co-Evolution of Sociocultural and Material Infrastructures of the Internet in Indonesia", her latest article is part of the special issue #105 of Indonesia (published by Cornell University's Southeast Asia Program) on "Infrastructures". About this article: From warnet to mobile... More

Monday, October 1, 2018

[Millennials’ Voices] Issue 2: Desperate Dreams of Digital Democratization?

Introduction to the “Millennials’ Voices” series — Issue 2 The social media boom that began in 2007 is perhaps now coming to an end, with... More

Introduction to the “Millennials’ Voices” series — Issue 2 The social media boom that began in 2007 is perhaps now coming to an end, with Facebook numbers now dropping for millennials and post-millennials in Canada, not to mention the many post US election social media ‘scandals’ (I’ll just let you Google that one yourself... More

Monday, October 1, 2018

[Millennials’ Voices] Activism in The Digital Age

Since their mass adoption by the public, digital media and the Web 2.0 have been essential tools for activists, protests and uprisings. More and more people every day are joining discussions... More

Since their mass adoption by the public, digital media and the Web 2.0 have been essential tools for activists, protests and uprisings. More and more people every day are joining discussions facilitated by social media concerning social issues and social movements. Supporting this notion are the events surrounding rapid dissemination of the short Kony... More