{"id":1567,"date":"2017-12-01T17:28:31","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T22:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/?p=1567"},"modified":"2025-07-24T14:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T18:38:13","slug":"lim-is-awarded-sshrc-insight-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/2017\/lim-is-awarded-sshrc-insight-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Lim is awarded SSHRC Insight Grant"},"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 is awarded SSHRC Insight Grant\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Merlyna Lim is just awarded Insight Grant from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council for her research project<em>\u201cCyber-urban Space, Social Media, and Contemporary Social Movements in Southeast Asia\u201d<\/em>. Please find below an excerpt on this news from the <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpa\/2017\/public-affairs-research-shines-in-sshrc-announcement\/\">Carleton University&#8217;s Faculty of Public Affairs announcement<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"not-prose cu-quote cu-component-spacing\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>From the call for election reform in Malaysia to protests against extrajudicial killings in the Philippines, the use of social media has contributed to mass movements and the occupation of public spaces around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor Lim\u2019s research will consider the interplay between social media and physical spaces in social movements in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe project takes on spatial and historical analysis to offer an in-depth understanding of the relationship between social movements, social media and actions on the ground,\u201d wrote Professor Lim, who holds a Canada Research Chair in Digital Media and Global Network Society. \u201cBeyond academia, the project aspires to facilitate public discourse on social media activism in a manner that would empower marginalized communities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project has been awarded $152,980 from SSHRC to support a multiple case study that will \u201cfill a gap in the literature of the political implications of the internet and social media in the non-Western context, especially Southeast Asia.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Profess Lim also received a Canada Foundation for Innovation grant to create the Alternative Global Network Media Lab (ALiGN), which provides a platform to help communities and groups engage with dominant narratives.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merlyna Lim is just awarded Insight Grant from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council for her research project\u201cCyber-urban Space, Social Media, and Contemporary Social Movements in Southeast Asia\u201d. 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