Merlyna Lim

• 2021 Featured as one of research leaders of the Asian Heritage Month in Canada • 2020 International Women’s Day Top 10 Women Leaders and Researchers • 2020 One of 100 Most Influential Alumni of ITB Bandung Institute of Technology • 2019 Graduate Mentoring Award, Carleton University • 2017 First place, People’s Choice Award, the Jackson’s Art International Urban Sketching Competition • 2016 Elected a member of Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists • 2014 Canada Research Chair in Digital Media and Global Network Society • 2013 Visiting Fellowship, Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy • 2011 Selected as one of Indonesian 100 Most Inspiring Women—2011 Kartini Awards • 2010 Our Common Future Fellowship in 'Future Technologies' from the Volkswagen Foundation • 2009 Faculty Star of Global Minds from ASU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. • 2005-2006 Walter Annenberg funded Networked Publics Fellowship, Annenberg Center for Communication, Univ of Southern California, Los Angeles. • 2004 Henry Luce Foundation funded Southeast Asia Fellowship, East West Center Washington, Washington D.C. • 2003 Oxford and Open society Institute Summer Doctoral Scholarship at Oxford Internet Institute. • 2003-2004 WOTRO-DC Fellowship from the Netherlands Foundation for the Advancement of Tropical Research (NWO-WOTRO) • 2002 American Society of Information Technology and Science (ASIST) International Paper Contest Winner. ==Publications==

• Lim, M. 2023. From activist media to algorithmic politics: The Internet, Social Media & Civil Society in Southeast Asia, in E. Hansson & M. Weiss (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Civil and Uncivil Society in Southeast Asia (pp. 25–44). New York & London: Routledge. • Lim, M. 2023. “Everything everywhere all at once”: Social Media, Algorithmic/Marketing Culture, and Activism in Southeast Asia. Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, 24(2): 181-190. https://doi.org/10.1353/gia.2023.a913644. • Lim, M. 2020. Algorithmic enclaves: Affective politics and algorithms in the neoliberal social media landscape. In M. Boler & E. Davis (eds.), Affective Politics of Digital Media: Propaganda by Other Means (pp. 186–203). New York & London: Routledge. • 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 • Lim, M. 2022. #Coronaconspiracy: Algorithms, Users, and Conspiracy Theories in Social Media. M/C Journal, 25(1). https://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/view/2877 • Lim, M. 2020. The politics and perils of dis/connection in the Global South (Crosscurrent: The Limits and Boundaries of Digital Disconnection). Media, Culture & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443720914032 • Lim, M. 2019. Disciplining Dissent:Freedom, Control, and Digital Activism in Southeast Asia, in R. Padawangi (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Urbanization in Southeast Asia, Routledge, 478-494. • Lim, M. 2018. Roots, Routes, Routers: Communications and Media of Contemporary Social Movements. Journalism & Communication Monographs Series (Volume 2 Number 2 Summer 2018) • Lim, M. 2018. Sticks and Stones, Clicks and Phones: Contextualizing the Role of Digital Media in the Politics of Transformation, in C. Richter & C. Harders, & A. Antonakis-Nashif (eds.) Digital Media and the Politics of Transformation in the Arab World and Asia, Berlin: Springer VS, 9-34. [PDF] • Lim, M. 2018. Dis/Connecting: The co–evolution of socio–cultural and material infrastructures of the internet in Indonesia. Indonesia, 105(April): 155-172. • Lim, M. 2018. Challenging technological utopianism. Canadian Journal of Communication, 43(3): 375-379. [PDF] • Mitchell, SSD & Lim, M. 2018. Too Crowded for Crowdsourced Journalism: Reddit and Citizen Participation in the Syrian Crisis. Canadian Journal of Communication, 43(3): 399-419. • Alrasheed, G. & Lim, M. 2018. Unveiling Saudi Feminism(s): Historicization, Heterogeneity, and Corporeality in the Women’s Movements. Canadian Journal of Communication, 43(3): 461-79. • Lim, M. 2017. Freedom to Hate: Social Media, Algorithmic Enclaves, and the Rise of Tribal Nationalism in Indonesia. Critical Asian Studies. 49(3): 411-427. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14672715.2017.1341188 • Lim, M. 2017. Sweeping the Unclean: Social Media and the Bersih Electoral Reform in Malaysia. Global Media Journal, 14(27). • Lim, M. 2017. Digital Media and Malaysia’s Electoral Reform Movement, in W. Berenschot, Schulte Nordholt & L. Bakker (eds.), Citizenship and Democratization in Southeast Asia, Leiden: Brill Academic Publisher, 213–239. • Yuce, S., Agarwal, N., Lim, M., Robinson, R.S., Wigand, R. 2016. Bridging Women Rights Networks: Analyzing Interconnected Online Collective Actions, in Information Resources Management Association (ed.), Politics and Social Activism: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, Hershey PA: IGI Global, 551–571. • Lim, M. 2015. A Cyber–Urban Space Odyssey: The Spatiality of Contemporary Social Movements. New Geographies, 07: 117–123. • Yuce, S. , Agarwal, N., Lim, M. , Robinson, R.S. , Wigand, R. 2015. Bridging Women Rights Networks: Analyzing Interconnected Online Collective Actions. Journal of Global Information Management, 22(4): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jgim.2014100101 • Agarwal, N., Lim, M., Wigand, R. (eds.) 2014. Online Collective Action: Dynamics of the Crowd in Social Media, New York/Heidelberg: Springer. • Lim, M. 2014. Seeing Spatially: People, Networks and Movements in Digital and Urban Spaces, International Development Planning Review, 36(1): 51–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/idpr.2014.4 • Lim, M. 2013. Framing Bouazizi: White Lies, Hybrid Network, and Collective/Connective Action in the 2010–2011 Tunisian Uprising, Journalism, 14(7): 921-941. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464884913478359 • Lim, M. 2013. Many Clicks but Little Sticks: Social Media Activism in Indonesia, Journal of Contemporary Asia, 43(4): 636–657. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2013.769386. • Lim, M. 2013. The Internet and Everyday Life in Indonesia: New Moral Panics? Bijdragen tot de Taal–, Land– en Volkenkunde (BKI) / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia and Oceania, 169(1): 133–147. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22134379–12340008. [PDF] • Lim, M. (2012). Life is Local in the Imagined Global Community: Islam and Politics in the Indonesian Blogosphere, Journal of Media and Religion, Vol. 11(2). • Lim, M. (2012). Clicks, Cabs, Coffee Houses: Social Media and the Oppositional Movements in Egypt (2004–2011), Journal of Communication, Vol. 62(02, April), 231–248. • Agarwal, N., Lim, M., & Wigand, R. (2012) Online Collective Action and the Role of Social Media in Mobilizing Opinions: A Case Study on Women's Right-to-Drive Campaigns in Saudi Arabia, in C. G. Reddick & S. K. Aikins (eds.), Web 2.0 Technologies and Democratic Governance: Political, Policy and Management Implications. • Agarwal, N., Lim, M., & Wigand, R. (2012) Raising and Rising Voices: Cyber-Collective Movements in the Female Muslim Blogosphere, Business & Information Systems Engineering Journal. • Lim, M. (2011). Democratised/Corporatised: Contesting Media in the Post-Authoritarian Indonesia, in Puddephatt, A. et al., A New Frontier, An Old Landscape, Global Partners & Associates, pp. 156–181. • Lim, M. (2011) Radical Islamism in Indonesia and Its Middle Eastern Connections, The Middle East Review of International Affairs Journal. • Lim, M. (2011) Transient Civic Spaces in Jakarta Indonesia in Mike Douglass, KC Ho, Ooi Giok Ling (eds.) Globalization, the City and Civil Society in Pacific Asia, London: Routledge (2nd edition). • Lim, M. (2009) "Muslim Voices in the Blogosphere: Mosaics of Local-Global Discourses" in Gerard Goggin and Mark McLelland [eds.], Internationalizing Internet: Beyond Anglophone Paradigm, London: Routledge, p. 178-195. • Lim, M and Padawangi, R. (2008), "Contesting Alun-Alun: Power Relations, Identities, and The Production of Urban Spaces in Bandung, Indonesia" International Development and Planning Review, Vol. 30 (3), pp. 307–326. • Lim, M. and Kann, M. (2008), "Politics: Deliberation, Mobilization and Networked Practices of Agitation" in K. Varnelis (ed.) Networked Publics, Cambridge: MIT Press, p. 77-107. • Lim, M. (2008), "Bundling Meta-Narratives on the Internet: Conflict in Maluku" in Shyam Tekwani (ed.), Media and Conflict in Asia, Marshall Cavendish Academic. • • • • • • • • • • • • ==References==