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audio was recorded from the actual lecture, in Jakarta, Aug 2022.

script was written between Ottawa, Dayeuhkolot, Bandung & Jakarta, Aug 2022.

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Part I: “Algorithms of Rage” – 5’59”

Part II: “The Rhythm of Us” – 8’16”

Part III: “The AlgoRhythms of Rohingya and Hasan’s bicycle” – 7’06”

Part IV: “Burning Bodies: The Offbeat that Binds Us” – 7’56”

Part V: “Closing remarks: Rhythms of Change?” – 2’29”

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On Thursday, April 28, 2022, Brandon Rigato gave a Witness statement for the House of Commons’ Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security panel for the study of .

Rigato is a doctoral candidate (ABD) of Communication and Media Studies at the School of Journalism and Communication, an ALiGN researcher, and a lead research assistant of Populist Publics.

The meeting was recorded and can be watched .

As we can see the video, Rigato delivered the first statement. Using the case of Three Percenters to illustrate the emergence and development of an IMVE group and its usage of social media, Brandon Rigato provided a specific and detailed example while projecting more general understanding on the co-evolution of IMVEs and social media.

Congratulations and well done, Brandon!

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Recently, Professor Merlyna Lim was invited by the in Berlin to deliver a public lecture in which she was asked to “autobiographically reflect on [her] approach, locating [her] work in the larger fields and debates.” She was reluctant but eventually said yes!

So, in her attempt to help audience understand the multiple contexts she was speaking from/to, Lim visualized the complex ecology of her lived/research experiences in the graphic below. Some scholars from the audience commented that every researcher should have made this kind of graphic! One scholar said, “This is way better than a CV!” That’s probably right, no?

Title: Legally Brown: Living and Researching Media/Politics in the Critical Spaces” 

Abstract:

How to study the intricate and complex relationship between media, politics, and society? How does this relationship change in the last two decades? From the analog to the digital, from the authoritarian system to semi-authoritarian and/or (transition to) democracy, from cybercafe to mobile phone, there have been multiple layers of change that are embedded in the trajectory of the field of media and politics. Juxtaposing scholarly and personal narratives, in this lecture Merlyna Lim presents a reflective and reflexive review of her field of research, namely (digital) media and politics, capturing both the mediatization of politics and the politicization of media. In her attempt to do so, Lim also hopes to unravel how political, intellectual, and personal narratives are intertwined and complementary to each other.

Slideshow:

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On 4 December 2018, Merlyna Lim spoke at the public plenary on “Big Data from the South: — with (London School of Economics), (SUNY Oswego), and (Erasmus University Rotterdam). The event was held in advance of the workshop  â€śBig Data from the South: Towards a Research Agenda” which took place at the Department of Media Studies of the University of Amsterdam, on December 5, 2018. The entire venue was funded by the European Research Council, the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, and the Amsterdam Centre for Globalization Studies.

Following the Amsterdam event, Lim also delivered on 6 December 2018.

Check out real-time tweets from the Big Data event below to follow the conversation below.

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ALiGN researcher Nasreen Rajani presented a paper titled “Silencing violence 2.0: Examining online activism by marginalized groups in ending violence against women in Canada” at the , held on 1-2 November 2018 at University of North Texas in Denton, Texas, USA.

The conference was an interdisciplinary media and justice conference for researchers, media practitioners, educators, and activists. The conference focused on “the roles of media in creating a more equitable, inclusive, sustainable, and just society.”  Its goal was “to bring scholars, media practitioners, educators, and/or activists together in one space so that we can all learn from and about each other’s research, creative projects, tools, and strategies.”

Rajani is currently completing her doctoral dissertation on digital media and activism of minority groups against violence against women in Canada.

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Merlyna Lim delivered a keynote speech titled “Rhythms and Algorithms: Collective Actions in the Social Media Age” at the  (ISMRC), held in Boulder, Colorado, in August 8-11, 2018. The conference was hosted by the  and the  at the . The conference explored the relationship between media, religion and public scholarship and brought together international scholars from various disciplines including media studies, journalism, politics, religious studies, the anthropology and sociology of religion, history, the study of literature and public policy. The conference, since its first meeting in 1996, has become the leading international gathering for the discussion of research in religion, media and culture.

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Professor spent much of her month of May 2018 in Southeast Asia, delivering keynote/plenary/public lectures, attending research meetings, and conducting field research.

Lim began the Southeast Asian tour in an island of in Indonesia, where she delivered a keynote speech titled at the Annual Conference of the National Sociology Association, held on 8-10 May 2018.

Following the Lombok event, Lim spent two days, 11-12 May 2018, in southern Thailand town of , for a board of directors’ meeting of , an international non-profit media, technology and culture organization focusing on Southeast Asia, that uses media and open technologies and work with individuals and communities to mobilize social and environmental justice issues for social change.

From Krabi, Lim flew to Singapore to deliver an opening plenary talk at the “” conference held at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, on 14 May 2018. In the event marking 20 years of the anniversary of Indonesian’s , Lim delivered a talk titled ” which chronicled her longitudinal research on digital media and activism in Indonesia.

Following this talk, Lim spent the rest of her stay in the region to do field research on her SSHRC-funded project in Kuala Lumpur, Bandung, and Jakarta. In between, she stopped by the city of Bogor on 18 May 2018, to deliver a public lecture at the Department of Communication and Rural Sociology, ,

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Merlyna Lim, Canada Research Chair in Digital Media and Global Network Society, delivered  held on 14 April 2018 in Ann Arbor, MI. Organized by the ICTD (Information and Communication Technologies and Human Development) group at the University of Michigan’s School of Information, this one-day seminar workshop featured contemporary scholarship on political social media in the Global South. The workshop featured  to explore these topics, with specific attention to politicians and political collectives. Titled “”, Lim’s keynote offered a fundamental concepts for analyzing the relationship between politicians and social media. Using some empirical snapshots from a number of countries representing varied political systems, Lim also provided an overview of social media practices of country leaders in the Global South.

A month earlier, on 6 March 2018, Purdue University featured Lim as the first speaker of the Global Diversity Special Topics Series where she delivered a talk entitled “”. This talk is based on a monograph, with the same title, that will be published by  (Sage) in June 2018.

Source: Communication Studies, ĐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University, “Lim delivers talks at Purdue and UMich“, April.30, 2018

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Our own Merlyna Lim delivered a plenary talk at the annual conference of the International Association of Media and Communication Research in Cartagena, 16-20 July 2017.

Lim participated in the plenary session titled  which discussed issues related to activism of social movements based on digital communication, such as fractures, disruptions, new territorialities, fears and uncertainties. In the session that was sponsored by AFACOM (AsociaciĂłn Colombiana de Facultades y Programas Universitarios en ComunicaciĂłn e InformaciĂłn) and chaired by Professor Clemencia Rodriquez (Temple University),  and their entanglement with digital media and communication. In this plenary conversation, Lim’s insights were critically responded by social movement scholars Emiliano TrerĂ© and Maria Paula MartĂ­nez Concha.

Below is the slideshow of Lim’s talk:

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