{"id":244,"date":"2017-03-20T16:33:19","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T20:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/?p=244"},"modified":"2025-07-25T11:15:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T15:15:03","slug":"yale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/2017\/yale\/","title":{"rendered":"#Scholartivism: Mapping the in\/visible landscape of activism"},"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                        #Scholartivism: Mapping the in\/visible landscape of activism\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 aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/C6ABtbcWUAAZU2e.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/C6ABtbcWUAAZU2e.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/C6ABtbcWUAAZU2e-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/C6ABtbcWUAAZU2e-240x180.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/C6ABtbcWUAAZU2e-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/C6ABtbcWUAAZU2e-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/C6ABtbcWUAAZU2e-360x270.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Merlyna Lim presented an invited plenary talk at the&nbsp;<em><i>Mapping for Social Justice: Approaches with New Media and the Digital Humanities Symposium<\/i><\/em>&nbsp;held at Yale University on March 3, 2017. Her talk, titled&nbsp;<strong><b>\u201c#Scholartivism: Mapping the In\/Visible Landscape of Cyber-Urban Activism\u201d<\/b><\/strong>, explored on her un-orthodox methodological and analytical approaches, combining computational mapping, on\/offline observation, and media analysis, in researching the complex relationship between social movements, digital media, and actions on the ground. Focusing specifically on the utilization of dataviz and artwork, Lim argued for the centrality of visualization\/radical aesthetic \u201cas method, analysis, and engagement\u201d in research, not only to reveal complexities and invisibilities but also to grapple with multiple and diverse spatialities and temporalities of contemporary social movements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merlyna Lim presented an invited plenary talk at the&nbsp;Mapping for Social Justice: Approaches with New Media and the Digital Humanities Symposium&nbsp;held at Yale University on March 3, 2017. Her talk, titled&nbsp;\u201c#Scholartivism: Mapping the In\/Visible Landscape of Cyber-Urban Activism\u201d, explored on her un-orthodox methodological and analytical approaches, combining computational mapping, on\/offline observation, and media analysis, in [&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":[34,35,27,33],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-talks-presentations","tag-scholartivism","tag-digital-humanities","tag-digital-media","tag-yale"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"event-lecture-2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","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=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3316,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/3316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}