News & Updates

Align Media Lab’s Director Merlyna Lim has received the 2025 Gordon Cullingham Research and Publication Grant from Heritage Ottawa for “Walking Ottawa in Ink & Washes: A Quiet Cartography …

Indonesia has recently experienced one of its most intense protest waves in years. Starting on 25 August with anger over lawmakers’ lavish housing allowances, demonstrations …

We are excited to share that our digital activism toolkit is now available in Indonesian, thanks to the thoughtful work of Anotasi. A heartfelt shout-out …

Merlyna Lim wrote 4S BackChannel about “post-publication listening” reflecting on the book tour in Southeast Asia, on her latest book Social Media and Politics in …

Curious about social media and society in Indonesia? Don’t miss this special issue of INDONESIA (Cornell University Press), co-edited by David Kloos, Johan Lindquist, and …

Just published: Lim, M. (2023) From activist media to algorithmic politics: The Internet, Social Media & Civil Society in Southeast Asia, in E. Hansson & …

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 …

  May 2019 IN THE SPOTLIGHT MERLYNA LIM Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Digital Media and Global Network Society Mobilizing Emotion, Not Knowledge …

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 …

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 …

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 …