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Wednesday, November 23, 2022
In this 4min video, Merlyna Lim offered 3 challenges in facing the increasingly algorithmicized future. The video is an excerpt from 45min studium generale Merlyna delivered 3 months ago to hundreds of first year students from various disciplines, including engineering, business, and social sciences. It's titled "No way home: Algorithmic Life... More
Wednesday, June 22, 2022
"Algorithms of Rage to Rhythms of Change" - a closing keynote speech, "Visions of Change" conference, University of Calgary, 11 May 2022, by Merlyna Lim https://bit.ly/Lim_VoC Part I: "Algorithms of Rage" https://youtu.be/TLodwU5ZvrU - 5'59" Part II: "The Rhythm of Us" https://youtu.be/8F1noEbb_d4 - 8'16" Part III: "The AlgoRhythms of Rohingya and... More
Saturday, April 30, 2022
On Thursday, April 28, 2022, Brandon Rigato gave a Witness statement for the House of Commons’ Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security panel for the study of the Rise of Ideologically Motivated Violent Extremism (IMVE) in Canada. Rigato is a doctoral candidate (ABD) of Communication and Media Studies at the School of... More
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Recently, Professor Merlyna Lim was invited by the University of Humboldt in Berlin to deliver a public lecture in which she was asked to "autobiographically reflect on [her] approach, locating [her] work in the larger fields and debates." She was reluctant but eventually said yes! So, in her attempt to help audience understand the... More
Sunday, December 16, 2018
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... More
Monday, November 5, 2018
ALiGN researcher Nasreen Rajani presented a paper titled “Silencing violence 2.0: Examining online activism by marginalized groups in ending violence against women in Canada” at the Mediating Change Conference, held on 1-2 November 2018 at University of North Texas in Denton, Texas, USA. The conference was an interdisciplinary media and... More
Sunday, August 26, 2018
Merlyna Lim delivered a keynote speech titled "Rhythms and Algorithms: Collective Actions in the Social Media Age" at the 11th biennial conference of the International Society for Media, Religion, and Culture (ISMRC), held in Boulder, Colorado, in August 8-11, 2018. The conference was hosted by the Center for Media, Religion and Culture and... More
Wednesday, July 25, 2018
Professor Merlyna Lim spent much of her month of May 2018 in Southeast Asia, delivering keynote/plenary/public lectures, attending research meetings, and conducting field research. Lim began the Southeast Asian tour in an island of Lombok in Indonesia, where she delivered a keynote speech titled “Sociological Research in a Fast Changing... More
Tuesday, May 1, 2018
Merlyna Lim, Canada Research Chair in Digital Media and Global Network Society, delivered a keynote talk at the Politicians and Social Media in the Global South seminar held on 14 April 2018 in Ann Arbor, MI. Organized by the ICTD (Information and Communication Technologies and Human Development) group at the University of Michigan’s School of... More
Thursday, July 20, 2017
Our own Merlyna Lim delivered a plenary talk at the annual conference of the International Association of Media and Communication Research in Cartagena, 16-20 July 2017. Lim participated in the plenary session titled “Communication Emerging From the Changing World Full of Uncertainties – Social Movements”, which discussed issues related to... More
Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Kathy Dobson and Scott Mitchell, doctoral candidates in Communication and ALiGN Media Lab affiliated researchers, were both selected to attend the Surveillance Studies Summer Seminar held June 15-21at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. The seminar is held every two years for a select and small group of doctoral candidates from around the... More
Saturday, July 15, 2017
Nasreen Rajani, a PhD student in Communications and ALiGN researcher, was one of 32 students accepted to the 2017 University of Oxford Internet Institute’s Summer Doctoral Programme (OII SDP). Doctoral students from around the world, whose research relates to the Internet, are invited to partake in an intensive two weeks of seminars and... More
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