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Sunday, May 15, 2022
In this 3 min video, Merlyna Lim offers publics some tips on how to thoughtfully engage with social media. A video taken from FPA Carleton University's Another Take interview: "Driven by Emotion: How Social Media Rewards Love &... More
Thursday, August 1, 2019
We're still enjoying our summer break. However, it doesn't mean nothing's going on at ALiGN :-) We're busy working on various things, our own research and, of course, the next special issue! In the meantime, in the last couple months, several publications from ALiGN folks are published. These include: Dobson, K. (2019). Connecting, Bypassing, and... More
Saturday, June 1, 2019
May 2019 IN THE SPOTLIGHT MERLYNA LIM Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Digital Media and Global Network Society Mobilizing Emotion, Not Knowledge As Canada prepares for a federal election, Canada Research Chair Professor Merlyna Lim is analyzing how social media users—human and otherwise—are mobilizing emotions rather... More
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
In their April 7th edition, De Standaard, a Flemish daily newspaper in Belgium, publishes an article titled In Azië heet perscensuur ‘strijd tegen fake news’ (meaning In Asia, press censorship is disguised as 'the battle against fake news) which includes a special interview with ALiGN director Merlyna Lim. The article itself is in Dutch (a... More
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
In November 2017, Lucy Juneau from Carleton Newsroom interviewed Professor Merlyna Lim, ALiGN Director/Founder who is, apparently, also an artist. Below is the interview, which was published in the Carleton Intranet... More
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
In July 2017, Merlyna Lim, won the International Urban Sketching Competition held by the Jackson's Art. As a winner, Merlyna was interviewed by Lisa Takahashi from the Jackson’s Art in October 2017. Here, she was interviewed not as a scholar, researcher, or professor, but as an artist. Below is an opening paragraph from the interview.... More
Monday, September 25, 2017
Our newly launched lab has gotten a media coverage. In today's MetroNews... More
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
ALiGN researcher Nasreen Rajani was interviewed about feminist-oriented corporate companies, such as the Dove Beauty Campaign, by Manta Mahas from the CarletonJHR in an articled titled "Femvertising: Is it really progressing women’s rights?" Rajani commented: “There is a lot of criticism around how they talk about real beauty and self... More
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Our own Nasreen Rajani was interviewed in the Carleton's independent weekly, the Charlatan, about social media and rape culture. Rajani, who is currently researching digital media and online feminist activism, commented: “Social media has the potential to build awareness around rape culture and to build connections between others but it’s not... More
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