{"id":1176,"date":"2018-07-25T00:03:02","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T04:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/?p=1176"},"modified":"2025-07-25T11:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T15:36:07","slug":"lim-publishes-roots-routes-and-routers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/2018\/lim-publishes-roots-routes-and-routers\/","title":{"rendered":"Roots, Routes, and Routers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The summer 2018 issue of the Journalism & Communication Monographs<\/em> series is dedicated to Merlyna Lim<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s work on media and social movements. In a monograph titled Roots, Routes, and Routers: Communications and Media of Contemporary Social Movements,<\/em><\/a> Lim offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the complexity of communications and media as they are embedded in the making and development of contemporary social movements, in three parts. The first part, Roots<\/em>, provides a broad context for analyzing communications and media of contemporary social movements by tracing varied and multifaceted roots of the wave of global protests since 2010. The second part, Routes<\/em>, maps out the routes that social movements take, trace how communications and media are entangled in these routes, and identify various key mechanisms occurring at various junctures of movements\u2019 life cycles. The last part, Routers<\/em>, explores roles of human and nonhuman, fixed and mobile, traditional and contemporary, digital and analog, permanent and temporal routers in the making and development of social movements. These analyses of roots, routes, and routers are based on Lim\u2019s multiple years\u2019 research in Tunisia, Egypt, Malaysia, and Hong Kong \u2013 they are mutually intertwined in broadening and deepening our understanding of the complexity of communications and media in contemporary social movements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Journalism & Communication Monographs<\/em> serves scholars and readers in fields of journalism and communication by publishing original scholarly works that are too long as articles or too specialized for book form. The monograph series \u201cseek to provide a venue for scholarly works, particularly those that provide a critical or applied synthesis of significant scholarship, that speak to the broader field of journalism and mass communication, \u2026 for understanding and advancing theory, methodology, and\/or practice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lim\u2019s monograph is accompanied by commentaries from four established scholars in the field of media and social movements: Emiliano Trer\u00e9, Orley Dur\u00e1n & Clemencia Rodr\u00edguez, and Mar\u00eda Paula Mart\u00ednez. These research commentaries provide critical insights to and dialogues with Lim\u2019s work. Lim dedicates her work to \u201cburning, dissenting, moving, and vocal bodies in Tunisia, Egypt, Malaysia, and Hong Kong.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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