Archives: politics

Saturday, June 1, 2019

Mobilizing Emotion, Not Knowledge

  May 2019 IN THE SPOTLIGHT MERLYNA LIM Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Digital Media and Global Network Society Mobilizing Emotion, Not Knowledge As Canada prepares for a federal election, Canada Research Chair Professor Merlyna Lim is analyzing how social media users—human and otherwise—are mobilizing emotions rather... More

Monday, October 1, 2018

[Millennials’ Voices] Issue 2: Desperate Dreams of Digital Democratization?

Introduction by Rory Clark The social media boom that began in 2007 is perhaps now coming to an end, with Facebook numbers now dropping for millennials and post-millennials in Canada, not to mention the many post US election social media ‘scandals’ (I’ll just let you Google that one yourself and take your pick), as... 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, April 25, 2018

Lim’s interview with De Standaard: “The underlying problem is not fake news, but fake democracy”

In their April 7th edition, De Standaard, a Flemish daily newspaper in Belgium,  publishes an article titled In Azië heet perscensuur ‘strijd tegen fake news’ (meaning In Asia, press censorship is disguised as 'the battle against fake news) which includes a special interview with ALiGN director Merlyna Lim. The article itself is in Dutch (a... 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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