Archives: digital media

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

Friday, July 15, 2022

Alternative Imaginations: Confronting and Challenging the Persistent Centrism

New publication! Lim, M. (2022). Alternative Imaginations: Confronting and Challenging the Persistent Centrism in Social Media-Society Research. Journal of Asian Social Science Research, 4(1), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.15575/jassr.v4i1.59 Abstract This article attempts to intervene the current trend in social media research that, to a certain... More

Tuesday, March 10, 2020

ALiGN is Hosting a Workshop for Refuges

Research on the coverage of refugees reveals that less than a quarter of all news articles on migration or refugee issues mention a refugee or migrant, and far fewer directly quote them. Kathy Dobson and Ghadah Alrasheed, Interim co-Directors of ALiGN Media Lab, became more aware of this issue after they visited Nairobi last... More

Saturday, December 1, 2018

[Millennials’ Voices] The Fall of Net Neutrality

by Philippe Des Rivières Have you ever been scrolling through Instagram and all of a sudden received a notification from a friend linking you to a post they thought would interest you, but upon clicking on that link you are confronted with the dreaded “Sorry, this content is unavailable” message? Quite annoying, right? Now imagine... More

Thursday, November 22, 2018

[Publication] Disciplining Dissent: Freedom, Control, and Digital Activism in Southeast Asia

Professor Merlyna Lim has just published a piece titled "Disciplining Dissent: Freedom, Control, and Digital Activism in Southeast Asia" [PDF]. Urbanized parts of Southeast Asia have been places with the most vibrant digital activism for the past two decades. And, yet, the region has been marginalized from "global accounts” of the role of... More

Saturday, September 1, 2018

Challenging Technological Utopianism

A special issue on "Challenging Technological Utopianism" in the Canadian Journal of Communication, Volume 43 No. 3, is just published. This issue is edited by ALiGN Media Lab Director Merlyna Lim, and with contributions from: Bivens & Hogue; Dobson & Knezevic; Mitchell & Lim; Knezevic, Pasho, & Dobson. All of these contributors... More

Wednesday, August 1, 2018

[Millennials’ Voices] Issue 1: Kids these days and their Social Media

  Introduction by Rory Clark Social media, the major social networks and platforms as we know them today, were originally conceived with much more humble and basic functionality in mind. The word “social”, in social media, originally referred to socialization, not society. Originally, they were simply intended to digitize connection,... More

Wednesday, August 1, 2018

[Millennials’ Voices] Millennials Are Awful

by Anna Hum Obviously, something must have gone wrong to cause an entire generation to become as lazy and unmotivated, but oh so entitled, as we are. Perhaps it was the amount of participation trophies we received when we were growing up, or maybe the root of all our waywardness is caused by our... More

Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Lim delivers plenary talks at Purdue and UMich

Merlyna Lim, Canada Research Chair in Digital Media and Global Network Society, delivered a keynote talk at the Politicians and Social Media in the Global South seminar held on 14 April 2018 in Ann Arbor, MI. Organized by the ICTD (Information and Communication Technologies and Human Development) group at the University of Michigan’s School of... More

Sunday, April 1, 2018

Stick and Stones, Click and Phones

ALiGN Media Lab Director and Founder, Merlyna Lim, just publishes "Sticks and Stones, Clicks and Phones: Contextualizing the Role of Digital Media in the Politics of Transformation" [PDF]. This piece is a chapter of edited volume titled Digital Media and the Politics of Transformation in the Arab World and Asia (Springer, 2018) edited... 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

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