{"id":3661,"date":"2026-10-14T10:59:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T14:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/?p=3661"},"modified":"2026-10-14T11:17:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:17:05","slug":"new-publication-platform-islandization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/2026\/new-publication-platform-islandization\/","title":{"rendered":"New Publication: Platform Islandization"},"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                        New Publication: Platform Islandization\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Q: Can you theorize the digital world from Indonesia?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A: If you can theorize the entire internet from a small place called Sillicon Valley, why can&#8217;t you theorize from a place with over 17,000 islands?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Merlyna Lim provides an answer. Employing &#8220;Indonesia as a method,&#8221; this article proposes a new way of theorizing, an epistemic intervention to understand digital life and computational environments, through what she terms &#8220;platform islandization.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lim, M. 2026. Platform islandization: The making of computational archipelagos. Verge: Studies of Global Asia. 12(2): 222-246. <a href=\"doi: 10.1353\/vrg.2026.a997479\">doi: 10.1353\/vrg.2026.a997479<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1280\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2026\/10\/825292644_1123618893351413_2119738426442411616_n-1024x1280.jpg\" alt=\"journal title\" class=\"wp-image-3659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2026\/10\/825292644_1123618893351413_2119738426442411616_n-1024x1280.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2026\/10\/825292644_1123618893351413_2119738426442411616_n-320x400.jpg 320w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2026\/10\/825292644_1123618893351413_2119738426442411616_n-512x640.jpg 512w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2026\/10\/825292644_1123618893351413_2119738426442411616_n-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2026\/10\/825292644_1123618893351413_2119738426442411616_n.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Verge: Global Asia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: Can you theorize the digital world from Indonesia? A: If you can theorize the entire internet from a small place called Sillicon Valley, why can&#8217;t you theorize from a place with over 17,000 islands? Merlyna Lim provides an answer. 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