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Merlyna Lim is a\u00a0Canada Research Chair<\/a> in Digital Media and Global Network Society with the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University<\/a>. \u00a0An ALiGN Media Lab<\/a> founder\/director and Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies<\/a>, Merlyna Lim\u2019s research interests revolve around the mutual shaping of technology and society, and political culture of technology, especially digital media and information technology, in relation to issues of justice, democracy and civic\/participatory engagement. Lim\u00a0considers herself an interdisciplinary scholar and have published<\/a> extensively in various disciplines, including communication and media studies, religious studies, journalism, urban studies\/sociology, geography, anthropology, Asian studies, Middle East studies, information and library science, computer science and information systems.<\/p>\n

An award winning scholar, in 2016, Lim was named a member of the Royal Society of Canada<\/a>‘s New College of Scholars, Artists, and Scientists.\u00a0 Lim is\u00a0 the recipient of the Best Publication Award 2012 in Information Systems. and selected \u201cOne of 100 Most Inspiring Indonesian Women\u201d by the Kartini Foundation in 2011. Lim has been awarded dozens of research grants\/awards from various institutions such as Canada Research Chairs, Social Science and Humanities Research Council (Canada), Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Ontario Research Fund, the National Science Foundation (United States), the Ford Foundation, the Volkswagen Foundation, the East-West Center, the Open Society, and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).<\/p>\n

Over the course of her\u00a0career, Lim has delivered more than 200 talks and presentations and given more than 50 media interviews. Previously she was a Visiting Research Professor with Princeton University\u2019s Center of Information Technology Policy<\/a>, a Distinguished Scholar of Technology and Public Engagement at Arizona State University<\/a>, and a Networked Public Research Fellow at the Annenberg Center for Communication University of Southern California<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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