{"id":193,"date":"2017-09-10T16:02:32","date_gmt":"2017-09-10T20:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/?p=193"},"modified":"2025-07-24T14:38:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T18:38:14","slug":"freedom_to_hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/2017\/freedom_to_hate\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: Social media, politics and the \u2018freedom to hate\u2019"},"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                        Podcast: Social media, politics and the \u2018freedom to hate\u2019\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>ALiGN Media Lab founder and director Merlyna Lim was interviewed by Dr. Jemma Purdey from Talking Indonesia in a podcast on <a href=\"http:\/\/indonesiaatmelbourne.unimelb.edu.au\/social-media-and-the-freedom-to-hate\/\">social media, politics and the \u2018freedom to hate\u2019<\/a>. Please click the link below to listen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/337781614&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Excerpt from <a href=\"http:\/\/indonesiaatmelbourne.unimelb.edu.au\/social-media-and-the-freedom-to-hate\/\">Talking Indonesia website<\/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>The Jakarta gubernatorial election, held earlier this year, was perhaps the most divisive and bitterly fought campaign seen in modern Indonesian politics. Social media and the internet played a large role in the campaign, which was characterised by racism and sectarianism. But how much can we blame the internet for the bitterness of the campaign and how much is it explained by Indonesia\u2019s conservative turn more generally? How did technology impact on this election? Are we seeing a new platform for organisation and political activism in Indonesia, based on a freedom to hate?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this week\u2019s podcast, Dr Jemma Purdey explores these questions with&nbsp;Associate Professor Merlyna Lim from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Her research and teaching interests revolve around the political and cultural implications of media and technology. Her most recent article is&nbsp;<a class=\"ext\" href=\"https:\/\/protect-au.mimecast.com\/s\/YZ52BmiAkxZqFD?domain=criticalasianstudies.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cFreedom to Hate: Social Media, Algorithmic Enclaves, and the Rise of Tribal Nationalism in Indonesia\u201d<span class=\"ext\"><span class=\"element-invisible\">(link is external)<\/span><\/span><\/a>, published in&nbsp;Critical Asian Studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2017, the Talking Indonesia podcast is co-hosted by&nbsp;<a class=\"ext\" href=\"http:\/\/profiles.arts.monash.edu.au\/jemma-purdey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr Jemma&nbsp;Purdey<span class=\"ext\"><span class=\"element-invisible\">(link is external)<\/span><\/span><\/a>&nbsp;from Monash University,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au\/display\/person670095#tab-overview\">Dr Dave McRae<\/a>&nbsp;from the University of Melbourne\u2019s Asia Institute,&nbsp;<a class=\"ext\" href=\"http:\/\/iseas.academia.edu\/CharlotteSetijadi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr Charlotte Setijadi<span class=\"ext\"><span class=\"element-invisible\">(link is external)<\/span><\/span><\/a>&nbsp;from the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore, and&nbsp;<a class=\"ext\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latrobe.edu.au\/humanities\/about\/staff\/profile?uname=dtomsa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr Dirk Tomsa<span class=\"ext\"><span class=\"element-invisible\">(link is external)<\/span><\/span><\/a>&nbsp;from La Trobe University.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALiGN Media Lab founder and director Merlyna Lim was interviewed by Dr. Jemma Purdey from Talking Indonesia in a podcast on social media, politics and the \u2018freedom to hate\u2019. Please click the link below to listen. Excerpt from Talking Indonesia website: The Jakarta gubernatorial election, held earlier this year, was perhaps the most divisive and [&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":[1,36],"tags":[22,23,21],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-podcast","tag-hate","tag-politics","tag-social-media"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"event-mic"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","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=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":724,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}