Merlyna Lim
Canada Research Chair in Digital Media & Global Network Society
| Degrees: | Ph.D. (University of Twente) |
| Phone: | 1 (613) 520-2600 x 1641 |
| Email: | merlyna.lim@carleton.ca |
| Office: | 4011C River Building |
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A Canada Research Chair in Digital Media and Global Network Society with the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University, and Media Lab founder, Professor Merlyna Lim’s research interests revolve around societal implications of technology, particularly digital media and information technology. Throughout her research career, Professor Lim has looked at societal implications of digital media in a wide range of contexts, including its influence on democracy, identity and religion, and civic spaces. An award winning scholar, including the winner of Best Publication Award 2012 in Information Systems, in 2016 Merlyna was selected a member of Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists and named “One of 100 Most Inspiring Indonesian Women” by the Kartini Foundation in 2011. Previously she was a Visiting Research Professor with Princeton University’s Center of Information Technology Policy and a Distinguished Scholar of Technology and Public Engagement at Arizona State University. In addition to a Research Fellowship with Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy, Merlyna is also an accomplished artist, musician and singer, and an award-winning designer and architect. Her office at Carleton features a full key piano (but she keeps her drum set, trumpet, guitar, sitar, banjo, ukulee, flute and harmonica at home).
Current: Canada Research Chair in Digital Media and Global Network Society with the School of Journalism and Communication Carleton University in Ottawa, ON Canada (2014-present).
Research: Lim’s research interests revolve around societal implications of technology, particularly digital media and information technology. “Throughout her research career, Lim has looked at digital media in a wide range of contexts, including its influence on democracy, identity and religion, and civic spaces.”
Previous appointments:
– Visiting Research Professor with Princeton University’s Center of Information Technology Policy
– A Distinguished Scholar of Technology and Public Engagement and a professor at Arizona State University.
– Also a visiting scholar at the KITLV Leiden – the Netherlands, a postdoctoral research associate at the Annenberg Center for Communication of the University of Southern California, and a Henry Luce Southeast Asia fellow with the East-West Center in Washington DC.
Awards (selected)
- Elected a member of Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists (2016)
- Canada Research Chair (2014-present) from the Canadian Government
- Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) Research Fellowship (2013-2014)
- Best Publication Award 2012 in Information Systems selected from all articles published in all information systems journals worldwide by the Senior Scholars Consortium, International Conference on Information Systems (2013)
- KITLV Royal Institution of Southeast Asia and Caribbean Studies (Leiden, the Netherlands) Visiting Fellowship (2012)
- One of 100 Most Inspiring Indonesian Women—2011 Kartini Awards, The Kartini Foundation.
- 2010 Our Common Future Fellowship in Future Technologies, The Volkswagen Foundation.
- 2009 Faculty Stars of Global Minds, ASU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Alumni.
- Annenberg Networked Public Fellowship, Annenberg Center for Communication, University of Southern California (2005-2006)