Thursday, July 20, 2017

Lim at 2017 IAMCR conference’s plenary in Cartagena

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

Dobson and Mitchell attend Surveillance Studies Seminar

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

Rajani attends Oxford Summer Program

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

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

Saturday, June 17, 2017

Freedom to laugh with “Tickling the Giant”

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

Lim embarks on Spring speaking tour in Europe

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

#Scholartivism: Mapping the in/visible landscape of activism

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’s public lecture at Concordia University’s Digital Ethnography Workshop

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

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

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Lim’s inaugural lecture: Roots, Routes, and Routers

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

Friday, September 30, 2016

Lim is elected to the Royal Society’s College of New Scholars, Artists & Scientists

Our own Merlyna Lim has been named one of the 2016 cohort of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. As one of the College’s inductees, Lim, who holds a Canada Research Chair in Digital Media and Global Network Society, joins the emerging generation of scholarly, scientific and artistic... More

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Rajani’s interview on social media and rape culture.

Our own Nasreen Rajani was interviewed in the Carleton's independent weekly, the Charlatan, about social media and rape culture. Rajani, who is currently researching digital media and online feminist activism, commented: “Social media has the potential to build awareness around rape culture and to build connections between others but it’s not... More

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