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Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Just published: Lim, M. (2023) From activist media to algorithmic politics: The Internet, Social Media & Civil Society in Southeast Asia, in E. Hansson & M. Weiss (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Civil and Uncivil Society in Southeast Asia, pp. 25-44. #openaccess #free #nopaywall... More
Friday, July 15, 2022
New publication! Lim, M. (2022). Alternative Imaginations: Confronting and Challenging the Persistent Centrism in Social Media-Society Research. Journal of Asian Social Science Research, 4(1), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.15575/jassr.v4i1.59 Abstract This article attempts to intervene the current trend in social media research that, to a certain... More
Saturday, March 19, 2022
If you're interested in the relationship between the Covid-19 pandemic crisis, conspiracy theories, social media (affordances), and algorithms, then this newly published article from Merlyna Lim is for you. Lim, M. (2022). #Coronaconspiracy: Algorithms, Users, and Conspiracy Theories in Social Media. M/C Journal, 25(1).... 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
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Merlyna Lim has developed a list of 10 things to be avoided in good writing. Now, we are sharing it with you for your own use in writing or teaching. She said: Don't be Cardi B of writing!", "This thesis is too Kardashian!", "Spidey moment!" Those are among feedback I give students to improve... More
Thursday, November 22, 2018
Professor Merlyna Lim has just published a piece titled "Disciplining Dissent: Freedom, Control, and Digital Activism in Southeast Asia" [PDF]. Urbanized parts of Southeast Asia have been places with the most vibrant digital activism for the past two decades. And, yet, the region has been marginalized from "global accounts” of the role of... More
Thursday, November 1, 2018
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... More
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Scott Mitchell, ALiGN researcher and PhD candidate of Carleton's Communication and Media Studies program, just published an article titled “Warning! You’re entering a sick zone”: The construction of risk and privacy implications of disease tracking apps" in Online Information Review. Congratulations Scott! Below is the abstract. Purpose... More
Saturday, September 1, 2018
A special issue on "Challenging Technological Utopianism" in the Canadian Journal of Communication, Volume 43 No. 3, is just published. This issue is edited by ALiGN Media Lab Director Merlyna Lim, and with contributions from: Bivens & Hogue; Dobson & Knezevic; Mitchell & Lim; Knezevic, Pasho, & Dobson. All of these contributors... More
Wednesday, July 25, 2018
The summer 2018 issue of the Journalism & Communication Monographs series is dedicated to Merlyna Lim’s work on media and social movements. In a monograph titled Roots, Routes, and Routers: Communications and Media of Contemporary Social Movements, Lim offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the complexity of communications and media as they... More
Sunday, April 1, 2018
ALiGN Media Lab Director and Founder, Merlyna Lim, just publishes "Sticks and Stones, Clicks and Phones: Contextualizing the Role of Digital Media in the Politics of Transformation" [PDF]. This piece is a chapter of edited volume titled Digital Media and the Politics of Transformation in the Arab World and Asia (Springer, 2018) edited... More
Friday, June 30, 2017
Merlyna Lim just published a new article titled “Freedom to Hate: Social media, Algorithmic Enclaves, and the Rise of Tribal Nationalism in Indonesia” (Critical Asian Studies journal) Abstract: Empirically grounded in the 2017 Jakarta Gubernatorial Election (Pilkada DKI) case, this article discusses the relationship of social media and... More
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