Archives: Research updates

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

From activist media to algorithmic politics [NEW PUBLICATION]

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

Thursday, August 1, 2019

ALiGN Publications & Media Coverage

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

Mobilizing Emotion, Not Knowledge

  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

Friday, December 1, 2017

Lim is awarded SSHRC Insight Grant

Merlyna Lim is just awarded Insight Grant from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council for her research project“Cyber-urban Space, Social Media, and Contemporary Social Movements in Southeast Asia”. Please find below an excerpt on this news from the Carleton University's Faculty of Public Affairs announcement: From the call for... More

Monday, August 21, 2017

Public Library of Science and open access scientific information and knowledge

ALiGN researcher Scott Mitchell just published an article titled "Open sesame: Analysing Public Library of Science as a site of production and distribution for open access scientific information and knowledge" in Communication and the Public.  Abstract: This article explores the Public Library of Science as a site that produces and disseminates... More

Friday, June 30, 2017

“Freedom to hate”, social media and algorithmic enclaves

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

Friday, January 20, 2017

Malaysian #Bersih Sweeping the Unclean

Merlyna Lim published "Sweeping the Unclean: Social Media and the Bersih Electoral Reform Movement in Malaysia" in Global Media Journal, 2016: 14:27. This article is based on her multi-year research following the making and development of the Bersih electoral reform movement in Malaysia, especially in Kuala Lumpur. The research is part of her... More

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