Archives: hate

Sunday, May 15, 2022

How Social Media Rewards Love & Hate

In this 3 min video, Merlyna Lim offers publics some tips on how to thoughtfully engage with social media. A video taken from FPA Carleton University's Another Take interview: "Driven by Emotion: How Social Media Rewards Love &... More

Monday, November 20, 2017

Hate, Harassment, and Communities of Bigots: The Ugly Side of Reddit

  Reddit has an ugly side, and I’m not talking about its pro-Donald Trump subreddit or a community that appears to be organized around sharing pictures of dragons mating with cars (I think it’s best to not provide a link to either of those). It’s difficult to compare reddit to other websites, since it’s... More

Sunday, September 10, 2017

Podcast: Social media, politics and the ‘freedom to hate’

ALiGN Media Lab founder and director Merlyna Lim was interviewed by Dr. Jemma Purdey from Talking Indonesia in a podcast on social media, politics and the ‘freedom to hate’. Please click the link below to listen. Excerpt from Talking Indonesia website: The Jakarta gubernatorial election, held earlier this year, was perhaps the most divisive... 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

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