{"id":293,"date":"2017-08-22T10:39:34","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T14:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/?page_id=293"},"modified":"2025-07-28T10:01:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T14:01:45","slug":"about-align","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/about\/about-align\/","title":{"rendered":"What is ALiGN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        What is ALiGN\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/Screenshot-2017-09-15-21.31.04.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-720\" style=\"width:400px\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"focus\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Focus<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<strong>ALiGN<\/strong>&nbsp;(<strong>AL<\/strong>ternat<strong>i<\/strong>ve <strong>G<\/strong>lobal&nbsp;<strong>N<\/strong>etwork) Media Lab&nbsp;focuses on research, knowledge mobilization, and public engagement at the intersection of media (especially digital media), contestation of power, and collective&nbsp;resistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"research\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Broadly defined, ALiGN research revolves around the relationship between media and communication technologies, especially digital media, and collective\/social movements, focusing on the spatialities, temporalities, and materialities of the movements. ALiGN research is trans and inter-disciplinary in nature. It combines methods from social sciences (e.g. online\/offline ethnography, historiography, interviews, participant observation, and content analysis) and computational science (e.g. computational network analysis, data mining, data visualization), use both small and big data approaches, and utilize visual, audial, and textual analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"mission\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mission<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>ALiGN&#8217;s mission is to work with communities and groups in engaging with and challenging dominant narratives, creating alternative narratives, and carving spaces of hope and resistance. This engagement will hopefully provide a tool or method to contest existing frameworks, and allow new narratives from the voices and spaces often found on the margins to be heard. We aspire to also cooperate with communities to find ways to utilize digital technologies and alternative&nbsp;media for civic engagement, participation, and creating alternative networks. Partnering with communities and activists, we hope to generate alternative narratives about social movements, telling stories and reporting on new research, movements, and developments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>:::<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re interested to receive our bi-monthly updates, please subscribe to our mailing-list by sending a blank email to&nbsp;<em><a href=\"mailto:subscribe-align@lists.carleton.ca\">subscribe-align@lists.carleton.ca<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Focus The&nbsp;ALiGN&nbsp;(ALternative Global&nbsp;Network) Media Lab&nbsp;focuses on research, knowledge mobilization, and public engagement at the intersection of media (especially digital media), contestation of power, and collective&nbsp;resistance. Research Broadly defined, ALiGN research revolves around the relationship between media and communication technologies, especially digital media, and collective\/social movements, focusing on the spatialities, temporalities, and materialities of the movements. 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