Archives: social movements

Thursday, February 24, 2022

YouthMove: App for Activism

By Haylea Coates Scroll down the above slides for a full view of the app design This is my design for a Canadian youth activism application, which I have named YouthMove. This application compiles resources for youth to learn about, discuss, and safely prepare to protest social injustice. YouthMove allows users to organize and... 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, December 1, 2017

Lim is awarded SSHRC Insight Grant

Merlyna Lim is just awarded Insight Grant from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council for her research project“Cyber-urban Space, Social Media, and Contemporary Social Movements in Southeast Asia”. Please find below an excerpt on this news from the Carleton University's Faculty of Public Affairs announcement: From the call for... More

Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Democracy spring: The rise of politically incorrect nomenclature (Part 2)

  Part 1 of this blog post discussed some of the issues concerning how social movements are named. Catchy titles such as Arab Spring, the Umbrella Revolution, and the Fishball Revolution are part of journalistic practices that grab readers’ attention. However, these names also frame a movement through the development of its name. These... 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

Friday, January 20, 2017

Malaysian #Bersih Sweeping the Unclean

Merlyna Lim published "Sweeping the Unclean: Social Media and the Bersih Electoral Reform Movement in Malaysia" in Global Media Journal, 2016: 14:27. This article is based on her multi-year research following the making and development of the Bersih electoral reform movement in Malaysia, especially in Kuala Lumpur. The research is part of her... More

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Lim’s inaugural lecture: Roots, Routes, and Routers

Merlyna Lim, Canada Research Chair in Digital Media & Global Network Society, delivers her Public Inaugural Lecture: Roots, Routes & Routers at Carleton University on November 6th, 2014. Lim makes the point that social media is neither the harbinger of social movements and social change nor just a passive and neutral medium. People and... More

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