{"id":1541,"date":"2018-12-16T14:00:14","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T19:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/?p=1541"},"modified":"2025-07-24T14:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T18:38:09","slug":"lim-on-big-data-from-the-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/2018\/lim-on-big-data-from-the-south\/","title":{"rendered":"Lim on Big Data from the South"},"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                        Lim on Big Data from the South\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>On 4 December 2018, Merlyna Lim spoke at the public plenary on &#8220;Big Data from the South: &#8212; with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nickcouldry.org\/\">Nick Couldry<\/a> (London School of Economics), <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ulisesmejias.com\/\">Ulises Mejias<\/a> (SUNY Oswego), and <a href=\"http:\/\/payalarora.com\/\">Payal Aurora<\/a> (Erasmus University Rotterdam).&nbsp;The event was held in advance of the workshop&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cBig Data from the South: Towards a Research Agenda\u201d which took place&nbsp;at the Department of Media Studies of the University of Amsterdam, on December 5, 2018. The entire venue was funded by the European Research Council, the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, and the Amsterdam Centre for Globalization Studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the Amsterdam event, Lim also delivered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universiteitleiden.nl\/en\/events\/2018\/12\/roots-routes-routers?fbclid=IwAR3BgRUbDpci3ONpBdhiAlWlcMSQ6AYFZ4R5FqMZdg6wlpz40WHGohG6s8o\">an inaugural lecture of CADS Digital Diverse Worlds Seminar at the University of Leiden<\/a> on 6 December 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out real-time tweets from the Big Data event below to follow the conversation <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BigDataSur?src=hash\">#BigDataSur<\/a> below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">a full room for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/bigdatasur?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#bigdatasur<\/a> panel with @3Lmantra <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/merlyna?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@merlyna<\/a> @couldrynick Ulises Mejias and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EmilianoTrere?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@EmilianoTrere<\/a>! thanks for the amazinf hospitality, @spui25! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/v8xwbDmlbr\">pic.twitter.com\/v8xwbDmlbr<\/a><\/p>&mdash; stefania milan (@annliffey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/annliffey\/status\/1070055076503453705?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 4, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">an amazing panel of researchers sharing their work on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BigDataSur?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BigDataSur<\/a>: Ulises Mejias, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/merlyna?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@merlyna<\/a>, @couldrynick, @3Lmantra. check out <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Rq8LxbPgR0\">https:\/\/t.co\/Rq8LxbPgR0<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bMmdi4ZI8X\">pic.twitter.com\/bMmdi4ZI8X<\/a><\/p>&mdash; stefania milan (@annliffey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/annliffey\/status\/1070034467685916672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 4, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Merlyna Lim: data deterritorialises us, but for people from the Global South, data also reterritorialises us. Brown bodies, black bodies are datafied differently. Who has the power to do this matters <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BigDataSur?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BigDataSur<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Anja Kovacs (@anjakovacs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anjakovacs\/status\/1070039244918403073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 4, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Brown bodies are datified differently &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/merlyna?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@merlyna<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BigDataSur?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BigDataSur<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jfbe8wOibe\">pic.twitter.com\/jfbe8wOibe<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u00c9tienne von Bertrab \n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/nielstenoever\/status\/1070047362930929669\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Legacy of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/globalsouth?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#globalsouth<\/a> as a byproduct of traditional colonialism &#8211; are old dynamics of subalternity reproduced in new <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/datafied?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#datafied<\/a> societies? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/merlyna?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@merlyna<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/bigdatasur?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#bigdatasur<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/datajustice?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#datajustice<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/datacolonialism?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#datacolonialism<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Silvia Masiero (@SilviaHedley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SilviaHedley\/status\/1070038834803589121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 4, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/nielstenoever\/status\/1070057312881119233\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 4 December 2018, Merlyna Lim spoke at the public plenary on &#8220;Big Data from the South: &#8212; with Nick Couldry (London School of Economics), Ulises Mejias (SUNY Oswego), and Payal Aurora (Erasmus University Rotterdam).&nbsp;The event was held in advance of the workshop&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cBig Data from the South: Towards a Research Agenda\u201d which took place&nbsp;at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,194],"tags":[250,251,249,143],"class_list":["post-1541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-talks-presentations","tag-big-data","tag-bigdatasur","tag-netherlands","tag-talk"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1560,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions\/1560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}