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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
Saturday, June 17, 2017
On June 7, 2017, Lim participated as a discussant in the screening of “Tickling Giants”, a new documentary directed by former Daily Show senior producer Sara Takslet, at the ByTowne Cinema, Ottawa. Following the story of the Egyptian comedian and political satirist Bassem Youssef, the documentary chronicles the power of humour and laughter in... More
Friday, May 12, 2017
ALiGN founder Merlyna Lim had been invited by multiple institutions in Europe to give a series of talks/lectures in April and May of 2017. Lim started the talk tour by delivering a plenary talk titled “Digital Media and Protest Movements in Malaysia and Indonesia” at the Digital Asia event in Lund, Sweden on 25-26 April 2017. The... More
Monday, March 20, 2017
Merlyna Lim presented an invited plenary talk at the Mapping for Social Justice: Approaches with New Media and the Digital Humanities Symposium held at Yale University on March 3, 2017. Her talk, titled “#Scholartivism: Mapping the In/Visible Landscape of Cyber-Urban Activism”, explored on her un-orthodox methodological and analytical... More
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