News Thursday, September 7, 2017The Poverty Report: “What Makes Me Sad …” As part of a new ongoing series, “The Poverty Report: Systems, Narratives, and People,” Kathy Dobson recently sat down with two women, who have lived with poverty, and asked them two questions: What are some of the common misconceptions people seem to have about those living with poverty? What do you wish you... MoreWednesday, September 6, 2017Rajani’s interview on corporate feminist advertisingALiGN researcher Nasreen Rajani was interviewed about feminist-oriented corporate companies, such as the Dove Beauty Campaign, by Manta Mahas from the CarletonJHR in an articled titled "Femvertising: Is it really progressing women’s rights?" Rajani commented: “There is a lot of criticism around how they talk about real beauty and self... MoreThursday, July 20, 2017Lim at 2017 IAMCR conference’s plenary in CartagenaOur 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... MoreTuesday, July 18, 2017Dobson and Mitchell attend Surveillance Studies SeminarKathy 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... MoreSaturday, July 15, 2017Rajani attends Oxford Summer ProgramNasreen 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... MoreFriday, June 30, 2017“Freedom to hate”, social media and algorithmic enclavesMerlyna 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... MoreSaturday, June 17, 2017Freedom 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... MoreFriday, May 12, 2017Lim embarks on Spring speaking tour in EuropeALiGN 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... MoreMonday, March 20, 2017#Scholartivism: Mapping the in/visible landscape of activismMerlyna 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... MoreMonday, February 20, 2017Lim’s public lecture at Concordia University’s Digital Ethnography WorkshopLim 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... MoreFriday, January 20, 2017Malaysian #Bersih Sweeping the UncleanMerlyna 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... MoreWednesday, October 26, 2016Lim’s inaugural lecture: Roots, Routes, and RoutersMerlyna 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... MoreFriday, September 30, 2016Lim is elected to the Royal Society’s College of New Scholars, Artists & ScientistsOur 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... MoreTuesday, September 20, 2016Rajani’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... 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