Publications

[bold: ALiGN researchers and affiliates]

2023

• Alrasheed, G., Rigato, B., Hai, N., & Dur-e-Aden, A. (2023). Cultural Genocide, Mass Immigration, and the Kalergi Plan: Conceptualizations of Race in White Identity Politics Online. Journal of Critical Race Inquiry, 10(2), 21-45. https://jcri.ca/index.php/CRI/article/download/15411/11120
• Lim, M. (2023). ” Everything Everywhere All At Once”: Social Media, Marketing/Algorithmic Culture, and Activism in Southeast Asia. Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, 24(2), 181-190. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/913644/pdf?casa_token=oVFAysgO8PIAAAAA:82kRmOeqz5zrY0oZ13yeJsajTPByUHjKONUs9Uolf9DVr2Q3gF6o_nuX4lcXjKs_ABoNhzk
• Lim, M. (2023). From Activist Media to Algorithmic Politics: The Internet, social media, and civil society in Southeast Asia. In M. Weiss & E. Hansson (eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Civil Society in Southeast Asia, Routledge, 25-44. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9780367422080-3/activist-media-algorithmic-politics-merlyna-lim
• Rigato, B. (2023). Malicious Enclaves: Racism, Hate, and Violence in Social Media Use of Right Wing Extremists in Canada (Doctoral dissertation, Carleton University). https://repository.library.carleton.ca/concern/etds/t722hb08n

2022

• Alrasheed, G., Rigato, B., & Hai, N. (2022). Viral but Under the Radar: Unmasking the Convergence of Far-Right and Pandemic Articulations on BitChute. Global Media Journal: Canadian Edition, 14(1). http://gmj-canadianedition.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/06_Alrasheed-Rigato-Hai-Volume-14-issue-1_Paper-FINAL-1.pdf
• Dobson, K. (2022). Living in Algorithmic Governance: A Study in the Digital Governance of Social Assistance in Ontario (Doctoral dissertation, Carleton University). https://repository.library.carleton.ca/concern/etds/3j333332b
• Lim, M. & Rigato, B. (2022). Close to Home: The Canadian far-right, Covid-19 and social media. 3 April. https://theconversation.com/close-to-home-the-canadian-far-right-covid-19-and-social-media-178714.
• Lim, M. (2022). #Coronaconspiracy: Algorithms, Users, and Conspiracy Theories in Social Media. M/C Journal, 25(1). Retrieved from https://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/view/2877
• Lim, M. (2022). Alternative Imaginations: Confronting and Challenging Persistent Centrism in Social Media-Society Research. Journal of Asian Social Science Research. https://cassr.net/jassr/index.php/jassr/article/view/59
• Mitchell, S. S., & Beanlands, J. (2022). “The mask is not for you”: a framing analysis of pro-and anti-mask sentiment on Twitter. Health & New Media Research, 6(1), 3-34. https://www.hnmr.org/m/journal/view.php?number=1

2021

• Lim, M. (2021). Rhythm & Algorithm of Us (Ritme & Algoritme Kebudayaan). The Speech on Culture (Pidato Kebudayaan). Jakarta: Jakarta Arts Council (Dewan Kesenian Jakarta). Bilingual text, in Indonesian and English. http://bit.ly/rhythm_algorithm.
• Lim, M. & Alrasheed, G. (2021). Beyond a Technical Bug: Biased algorithms and moderation are censoring activists on social media, 16 May. https://theconversation.com/beyond-a-technical-bug-biased-algorithms-and-moderation-are-censoring-activists-on-social-media-160669. Republished in the National Post, 17 May. https://www.google.ca/amp/s/nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/beyond-a-technical-bug-biased-algorithms-and-moderation-are-censoring-activists-on-social-media/wcm/947e9d10-269e-43cb-9c8c-d4f0d620477f/amp/

2020

• Dobson, K. (2020). Connecting, Bypassing, and Networking: Analyzing Idle No More’s Online Activities. Second International Handbook of Internet Research, 185-200.
• Mitchell, S. S., & Beanlands, J. (2020). Rethinking Risk Communication: Lessons From a Pandemic. TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 41, 88-95.
• Lim, M. (2020). Algorithmic enclaves: Affective politics and algorithms in the neoliberal social media landscape. In M. Boler & E. Davis (eds.), Affective Politics of Digital Media: Propaganda by Other Means (pp. 186-203). [Download PDF]
• Lim, M. (2020). The politics and perils of dis/connection in the Global South (Crosscurrent: The Limits and Boundaries of Digital Disconnection). Media, Culture & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443720914032 [Download PDF]

2019

• Dobson, K. (2019). Connecting, Bypassing, and Networking: Analyzing Idle No More’s Online Activities. In J. Hunsinger, M. M. Allen, & L. Klastrup (Eds.), Second International Handbook of Internet Research, Springer.
• Lim, M. (2019). Cyber-Urban Space. In The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia or Urban and Regional Studies, A. M. Orum (Ed.). [Download PDF]
• Lim, M. (2019). Disciplining Dissent: Freedom, Control, and Digital Activism in Southeast Asia, in R. Padawangi (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Urbanization in Southeast Asia, London: Routledge, pp. 478-494. [Download PDF]
• Mitchell, S. S. (2019). Population Control, Deadly Vaccines, and Mutant Mosquitoes: The Construction and Circulation of Zika Virus Conspiracy Theories Online. Canadian Journal of Communication, 44(2).
• Woo, B. & Rajani, N. (2019). Comic Book Stores as Sites of Struggle, in D. Herbert & D. Johnson (eds.) Point of Sale, Rutgers University Press.

2018

• Lim, M. 2018. Dis/Connecting: The co–evolution of socio–cultural and material infrastructures of the internet in Indonesia. Indonesia, 105(April): 155-172. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5728/indonesia.105.0155 [PDF]
• Mitchell, S. S. 2018. “Warning! You’re entering a sick zone” The construction of risk and privacy implications of disease tracking apps. Online Information Review.  https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1108/OIR-03-2018-0075
• Lim, M., 2018. Challenging Technological Utopianism. Canadian Journal of Communication, 43(3).  https://www.cjc-online.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/3393/3551
• Mitchell, S.S.D. & Lim, M. 2018. Too Crowded for Crowdsourced Journalism: Reddit and Citizen Participation in the Syrian Crisis. Canadian Journal of Communication, 43(3): 399-419. https://www.cjc-online.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/3377 [PDF].
• Lim, M. (2018). Unveiling Saudi Feminism(s): Historicization, Heterogeneity, and Corporeality in the Women’s Movements. Canadian Journal of Communication, 43(3): 461-79.
• Dobson, K., & Knezevic, I. 2018.  “Ain’t Nobody Got Time for That!”: Framing and Stereotyping in Legacy and Social Media.Canadian Journal of Communication, 43(3).
• Knezevic, I., Pasho, J. and Dobson, K., 2018. Seal Hunts in Canada and on Twitter: Exploring the Tensions Between Indigenous Rights and Animal Rights with# Sealfie. Canadian Journal of Communication, 43(3).
• Lim, M. 2018. Roots, Routes, Routers: Communications and Media of Contemporary Social Movements. Journalism & Communication Monographs Series, 20(2): 92-136.  http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1522637918770419 [PDF]
• Lim, M. 2018. Sticks and Stones, Clicks and Phones: Contextualizing the Role of Digital Media in the Politics of Transformation. In: Richter C., Antonakis A., Harders C. (eds) Digital Media and the Politics of Transformation in the Arab World and Asia (pp. 9-34). Springer VS.   https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-658-20700-7_2  [PDF]

2017

• Dobson, K. & Knezevic, I. 2017. ‘Liking and Sharing:’ the Stigmatization of Poverty and Social Welfare: Representations of Poverty and Welfare Memes on Social Media. Triple C: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 15(2) [PDF]
• Lim, M. 2017. Freedom to Hate: Social Media, Algorithmic Enclaves, and the Rise of Tribal Nationalism in Indonesia. Critical Asian Studies, 49 (3): 411-427. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14672715.2017.1341188 [PDF]
• Lim, M. 2017. Sweeping the Unclean: Social Media and the Bersih Electoral Reform in Malaysia. Global Media Journal, 14(27). [PDF]
• Lim, M. 2017. Digital Media and Malaysia’s Electoral Reform Movement, in W. Berenschot, Schulte Nordholt & L. Bakker (eds.), Citizenship and Democratization in Southeast Asia, Leiden: Brill Academic Publisher, 213–239. [PDF]
• Mitchell, S.S.D. 2017. Open sesame: Analysing Public Library of Science as a site of production and distribution for open access scientific information and knowledge. Communication and the Public, 2(3): 226-238. https://doi.org/10.1177/2057047317722797
• Mitchell, S. & Hamilton, S.N. 2017. Playing at apocalypse: Reading Plague Inc. in pandemic culture. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies.  https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856516687235

Relevant publications, Pre-ALiGN … – 2016

• Dobson, K. & Hunsinger, J. 2016. The Political Economy of WikiLeaks: Transparency and Accountability through Digital and Alternative Media.Studies in Communication and Culture, 7(2): 217-233. https://doi.org/10.1386/iscc.7.2.217_1
• Rajani, N. (2016). “A prehistory of the cloud” by Tung-Hui Hu. Journal of Communication, 66: E12-E14. (Book review). [PDF].
• Yuce, S., Agarwal, N., Lim, M., Robinson, R.S., Wigand, R. 2016. Bridging Women Rights Networks: Analyzing Interconnected Online Collective Actions, in Information Resources Management Association (ed.), Politics and Social Activism: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, Hershey PA: IGI Global, 551–571. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jgim.2014100101
• Dobson, K. 2015. In their own words. In N. Ives, M. Donov & T. Sussman (Eds.), Introduction to Social Work in Canada: Histories, Contexts, and Practices. Oxford University Press.
• Lim, M. 2015. A Cyber–Urban Space Odyssey: The Spatiality of Contemporary Social Movements. New Geographies, 07: 117–123. [PDF]
• Yuce, S. , Agarwal, N., Lim, M. , Robinson, R.S. , Wigand, R.  2015. Bridging Women Rights Networks: Analyzing Interconnected Online Collective Actions. Journal of Global Information Management, 22(4): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jgim.2014100101
• Agarwal, N., Lim, M., Wigand, R. (eds.) 2014. Online Collective Action: Dynamics of the Crowd in Social Media, New York/Heidelberg: Springer. [Abstract]
• Lim, M. 2014. Seeing Spatially: People, Networks and Movements in Digital and Urban Spaces, International Development Planning Review, 36(1): 51–72.  http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/idpr.2014.4   A shorter version is translated into Indonesian and republished as: Lim, M. (2015) Media Baru, Meninjau Ruang Masyarakat, Jejaring dan Gerakan dalam Ruang Urban Digital, Etnohistori, http://etnohistori.org/media–baru–meninjau–ruang–masyarakat–jejaring–dan–gerakan–dalam–ruang–urban–digital–merlyna–lim.html.
• Yuce, S., Agarwal, N. , Lim, M. , Robinson, R.S., Wigand, R. 2014. Studying the Evolution of Online Collective Action: Saudi Arabian Women’s ‘Oct26Driving’ Campaign on Twitter. Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral–Cultural Modeling, and Prediction (Washington DC, April 2–4), Springer. [PDF]
• Dobson, K. 2013. Journalism Interest Group Proceedings, “Accessibility and Validity of Truth: Is WikiLeaks a vehicle for transparency and fact, subverting traditional social structures by presenting alternative and suppressed information?”
• Lim, M. 2013. Framing Bouazizi: White Lies, Hybrid Network, and Collective/Connective Action in the 2010–2011 Tunisian Uprising, Journalism, 14(7): 921–941. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464884913478359
• Lim, M. 2013. Many Clicks but Little Sticks: Social Media Activism in Indonesia, Journal of Contemporary Asia, 43(4): 636–657. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2013.769386. Translated into Indonesian and republished as: Lim, M. (2015) Klik yang Tak Memantik: Aktivisme Media Sosial di Indonesia, Jurnal Komunikasi Indonesia, 3(1). Reprinted in: Shah, N. et al. (2015) Digital Activism in Asia Reader, Leuphana University of Luneburg, Germany: Meson Press, 127–154.
• Lim, M. 2013. The Internet and Everyday Life in Indonesia: New Moral Panics? Bijdragen tot de Taal–, Land– en Volkenkunde (BKI) / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia and Oceania, 169(1): 133–147.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22134379–12340008.
• Yuce, S., Agarwal, N., Lim, M., Robinson, R.S., Wigand, R. 2013. Blogging, Bridging, and Brokering: Analyzing Interconnected Networks in Online Collective Actions. Proceedings of Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (Jeju Island, Korea, June 18–22).
• Lim, M. 2012. Life is Local in the Imagined Global Community: Islam and Politics in the Indonesian Blogosphere, Journal of Media and Religion, 11(3): 127–140. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15348423.2012.706144
• Lim, M. 2012. Clicks, Cabs, Coffee Houses: Social Media and the Oppositional Movements in Egypt (2004–2011), Journal of Communication, 62(2): 231–248. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1460–2466.2012.01628.x
• Agarwal, N. , Lim, M. , Wigand, R.  2012. Raising and Rising Voices: A Novel Methodological Approach in Studying Cyber–Collective Movements, Business & Information Systems Engineering, 3: 113–126.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12599–012–0210–z Translated into German as: Meinungsäußerung und–bildung in sozialen Medien: Ein neuer methodischer Ansatz zur Untersuchung cybersozialer Bewegungen, Wirtschaftsinformatik, 3: 107–122
• Lim, M. 2012. Between consumptions and citizenship: Social media and political participation in Indonesia, Strategic Review: The Indonesian Journal of Leadership, Policy, and World Affair, 2(02, April–June): 52–60.
• Lim, M. 2012. Reality Bytes: The Digitally–Mediated Urban Revolutions. The Architectural Review, 24(April): 20–2.
• Agarwal, N., Lim, M., Wigand, R.  2012. Online Collective Action and The Role of Social Media in Mobilizing Opinions, in C.G. Reddick & S.K. Aikins (eds.), Web 2.0 Technologies and Democratic Governance: Political, Policy and Management Implications, New York NY: Springer, 99–123. [PDF]
• Lim, M. 2012. Democratised/Corporatised: Contesting Media in the Post–Authoritarian Indonesia, in A. Puddephatt et al., A New Frontier, An Old Landscape, London: Global Partners & Associates, 156–181. [PDF]

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