{"id":3021,"date":"2022-07-15T21:05:20","date_gmt":"2022-07-16T01:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/?p=3021"},"modified":"2025-07-24T14:38:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T18:38:01","slug":"alternative-imaginations-confronting-and-challenging-the-persistent-centrism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/2022\/alternative-imaginations-confronting-and-challenging-the-persistent-centrism\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternative Imaginations: Confronting and Challenging the Persistent Centrism"},"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                        Alternative Imaginations: Confronting and Challenging the Persistent Centrism\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xdj266r x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">New publication!<\/div>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><strong>Lim, M. (2022). Alternative Imaginations: Confronting and Challenging the Persistent Centrism in Social Media-Society Research. Journal of Asian Social Science Research, 4(1), 1-22.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><a class=\"x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1fey0fg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15575\/jassr.v4i1.59?fbclid=IwAR3BUko12rAnFjeWlpi-MiTUdzrU7MMAHMcWG5uYVd22Pp_qYC7uJdsL6jY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15575\/jassr.v4i1.59<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div dir=\"auto\"><em><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div dir=\"auto\">This article attempts to intervene the current trend in social media research that, to a certain degree, reflects the centrality of technology. Beyond the broad trend of technocentrism, I identify and outline four other major oversights or challenges in researching the social media\/society relationship, namely online data centrism, moment centrism, novelty centrism, and success centrism. Stemmed from these four types of centrism, I offer an alternative imagination, namely a set of alternative pathways in social media research that value histories and historical context, interdisciplinarity, longue dur\u00e9e, and complexity. By revealing these oversights, this article aims to contribute to our collective attempt to interrogate the relationship between social media and society (and technology\/society) critically. This alternative imagination might help animate, reveal, and make transparent various societal dynamics that otherwise would be invisible and, thus, might contribute to a better, deeper, and more comprehensive understanding of the technology\/society relationship.<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<p dir=\"auto\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New publication! Lim, M. (2022). Alternative Imaginations: Confronting and Challenging the Persistent Centrism in Social Media-Society Research. Journal of Asian Social Science Research, 4(1), 1-22. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15575\/jassr.v4i1.59 Abstract This article attempts to intervene the current trend in social media research that, to a certain degree, reflects the centrality of technology. Beyond the broad trend of technocentrism, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,193],"tags":[439,250,436,89,438,27,21,437],"class_list":["post-3021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-publications","tag-alternative-imagination","tag-big-data","tag-centrism","tag-data","tag-data-centrism","tag-digital-media","tag-social-media","tag-techno-centrism"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021","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=3021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3022,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021\/revisions\/3022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}