On 4 December 2018, Merlyna Lim spoke at the public plenary on “Big Data from the South: — with Nick Couldry (London School of Economics), Ulises Mejias (SUNY Oswego), and Payal Aurora (Erasmus University Rotterdam). The event was held in advance of the workshop “Big Data from the South: Towards a Research Agenda” which took place at the Department of Media Studies of the University of Amsterdam, on December 5, 2018. The entire venue was funded by the European Research Council, the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, and the Amsterdam Centre for Globalization Studies.
Following the Amsterdam event, Lim also delivered an inaugural lecture of CADS Digital Diverse Worlds Seminar at the University of Leiden on 6 December 2018.
Check out real-time tweets from the Big Data event below to follow the conversation #BigDataSur below.
a full room for #bigdatasur panel with @3Lmantra @merlyna @couldrynick Ulises Mejias and @EmilianoTrere! thanks for the amazinf hospitality, @spui25! pic.twitter.com/v8xwbDmlbr
— stefania milan (@annliffey) December 4, 2018
an amazing panel of researchers sharing their work on #BigDataSur: Ulises Mejias, @merlyna, @couldrynick, @3Lmantra. check out https://t.co/Rq8LxbPgR0 pic.twitter.com/bMmdi4ZI8X
— stefania milan (@annliffey) December 4, 2018
Merlyna Lim: data deterritorialises us, but for people from the Global South, data also reterritorialises us. Brown bodies, black bodies are datafied differently. Who has the power to do this matters #BigDataSur
— Anja Kovacs (@anjakovacs) December 4, 2018
Brown bodies are datified differently – @merlyna at #BigDataSur pic.twitter.com/jfbe8wOibe
— Étienne von Bertrab (@etiennista) December 4, 2018
https://twitter.com/nielstenoever/status/1070047362930929669
Legacy of the #globalsouth as a byproduct of traditional colonialism – are old dynamics of subalternity reproduced in new #datafied societies? @merlyna at #bigdatasur #datajustice #datacolonialism
— Silvia Masiero (@SilviaHedley) December 4, 2018
https://twitter.com/nielstenoever/status/1070057312881119233