Archives: Merlyna Lim

Monday, March 9, 2020

Dr. Merlyna Lim Honoured for Groundbreaking Research, Teaching, and Community Outreach

On the International Women's Day, Carleton University honoured Dr. Merlyna Lim, among 10 women, who have had impact on our world through their "innovative teaching, ground-breaking research and vital community outreach". The ALiGN Media Lab stands out as one of Dr. Lim’s great and innovative contributions in facilitating community-outreach... More

Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Roots, Routes, and Routers

The summer 2018 issue of the Journalism & Communication Monographs series is dedicated to Merlyna Lim’s work on media and social movements. In a monograph titled Roots, Routes, and Routers: Communications and Media of Contemporary Social Movements, Lim offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the complexity of communications and media as they... 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

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Meet Prof. Merlyna Lim: Carleton Professor and Artist

In November 2017, Lucy Juneau from Carleton Newsroom interviewed Professor Merlyna Lim, ALiGN Director/Founder who is, apparently, also an artist. Below is the interview, which was published in the Carleton Intranet... More

Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Merlyna Lim’s Interview with the Jackson’s Art

In July 2017, Merlyna Lim, won the International Urban Sketching Competition held by the Jackson's Art.  As a winner, Merlyna was interviewed by Lisa Takahashi from the Jackson’s Art in October 2017. Here, she was interviewed not as a scholar, researcher, or professor, but as an artist. Below is an opening paragraph from the interview.... More

Sunday, September 17, 2017

Beyond fake news: social media and market-driven political campaigns

  The Conversation just published a short essay entitled "Beyond fake news: social media and market-driven political campaigns" written by Merlyna Lim. This essay is a summary of a much longer and comprehensive article, titled "Freedom to Hate: social media, algorithmic enclaves, and the rise of tribal nationalism in Indonesia," published... More

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