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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
Monday, February 20, 2017
Lim delivered an invited public lecture at Concordia University as part of the Digital Ethnography Workshop Series of the Global Emergent Media Lab in February 7, 2017. In her talk, “Feet on the Ground, Tweets All Around: Social Media & Contemporary Popular Protests”, Lim scrutinized the complex entanglement of cyber-urban spaces in the... More
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Merlyna Lim, Canada Research Chair in Digital Media & Global Network Society, delivers her Public Inaugural Lecture: Roots, Routes & Routers at Carleton University on November 6th, 2014. Lim makes the point that social media is neither the harbinger of social movements and social change nor just a passive and neutral medium. People and... More
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