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[bold: ALiGN researchers and affiliates]

2025

• Lim, M. (2025). The Field Talks Back: Listening to Southeast Asia After the Book. 4S Backchannels. .
• Lim, M. (2025). In curhat we unite (and divide): Scalable affective sociability, algorithmic politics, and social media in Indonesia. Indonesia. 119 (April): 39-57. .
• Kloos, D., Lim, M., Lindquist, J. (2025). Faith, Followers, and Factions: Making Social Media Publics in Indonesia. Indonesia. 119 (April): 1-23. .
• Russill, C., & Alrasheed, G. (2025). Discourse analysis in climate communication. In Routledge Handbook on Climate Crisis Communication (pp. 115-124). Routledge.
• Evans, J. V., & Rigato, B. (2025). Fake History. In Q. Wang & A. Hoskins (eds.). The Remaking of Memory in the Age of the Internet and Social Media (pp. 173-189). Routledge.

2024

• Lim, M. (2024).�� Cambridge University Press.
• Mouser, H., Daggett, M., Chea, R., Sawas, A., Sanderson, B., Roth, D., Deb, D., Paramita, E., Lee, J., Regattieri, L., Lim, M., Sekyiamah, N. D., Vidalon, N., Linares, N. L., Senlle, R., Novayanti, R., Raman, T., Hernandez, V., & Agbeniyi, Y. (2024). Uncommon Sense: A Systems-Based Strategic Communications Handbook for Changing the World. The Multicultural Leadership Initiative.

2023

• Alrasheed, G., Rigato, B., Hai, N., & Dur-e-Aden, A. (2023). Cultural Genocide, Mass Immigration, and the Kalergi Plan: Conceptualizations of Race in White Identity Politics Online. Journal of Critical Race Inquiry, 10(2), 21-45.
• Lim, M. (2023). ” Everything Everywhere All At Once”: Social Media, Marketing/Algorithmic Culture, and Activism in Southeast Asia. Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, 24(2), 181-190.
• Lim, M. (2023). From Activist Media to Algorithmic Politics: The Internet, social media, and civil society in Southeast Asia. In M. Weiss & E. Hansson (eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Civil Society in Southeast Asia, Routledge, 25-44.
• Rigato, B. (2023). Malicious Enclaves: Racism, Hate, and Violence in Social Media Use of Right Wing Extremists in Canada (Doctoral dissertation, �Ӱ�ԭ�� University).

2022

• Alrasheed, G., Rigato, B., & Hai, N. (2022). Viral but Under the Radar: Unmasking the Convergence of Far-Right and Pandemic Articulations on BitChute. Global Media Journal: Canadian Edition, 14(1). 
• Dobson, K. (2022). Living in Algorithmic Governance: A Study in the Digital Governance of Social Assistance in Ontario (Doctoral dissertation, �Ӱ�ԭ�� University).
• Lim, M. & Rigato, B. (2022). Close to Home: The Canadian far-right, Covid-19 and social media. 3 April. .
• Lim, M. (2022). #Coronaconspiracy: Algorithms, Users, and Conspiracy Theories in Social Media. M/C Journal, 25(1). Retrieved from
• Lim, M. (2022). Alternative Imaginations: Confronting and Challenging Persistent Centrism in Social Media-Society Research. Journal of Asian Social Science Research.

2021

• Lim, M. (2021). Rhythm & Algorithm of Us (Ritme & Algoritme Kebudayaan). The Speech on Culture (Pidato Kebudayaan). Jakarta: Jakarta Arts Council (Dewan Kesenian Jakarta). Bilingual text, in Indonesian and English. .
• Lim, M. & Alrasheed, G. (2021). Beyond a Technical Bug: Biased algorithms and moderation are censoring activists on social media, 16 May. . Republished in the National Post, 17 May.

2020

• Dobson, K. (2020). Connecting, Bypassing, and Networking: Analyzing Idle No More’s Online Activities. Second International Handbook of Internet Research, 185-200.
• 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). [Download PDF]
• 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. [Download PDF]

2019

• Dobson, K. (2019). . In J. Hunsinger, M. M. Allen, & L. Klastrup (Eds.), Second International Handbook of Internet Research, Springer.
• Lim, M. (2019). Cyber-Urban Space. In The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia or Urban and Regional Studies, A. M. Orum (Ed.). []
• Lim, M. (2019). Disciplining Dissent: Freedom, Control, and Digital Activism in Southeast Asia, in R. Padawangi (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Urbanization in Southeast Asia, London: Routledge, pp. 478-494. [Download PDF]
• Woo, B. & Rajani, N. (2019). Comic Book Stores as Sites of Struggle, in , Rutgers University Press.

2018

• 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). 
• Mitchell, S.S.D. & Lim, M. 2018. Too Crowded for Crowdsourced Journalism: Reddit and Citizen Participation in the Syrian Crisis. Canadian Journal of Communication, 43(3): 399-419.  [PDF].
• Lim, M. (2018). Unveiling Saudi Feminism(s): Historicization, Heterogeneity, and Corporeality in the Women’s Movements. , 43(3): 461-79.
• Dobson, K., & Knezevic, I. 2018.  “Ain’t Nobody Got Time for That!”: Framing and Stereotyping in Legacy and Social Media., 43(3).
• Knezevic, I., Pasho, J. and Dobson, K., 2018. Seal Hunts in Canada and on Twitter: Exploring the Tensions Between Indigenous Rights and Animal Rights with# Sealfie. , 43(3).
• Lim, M. 2018. Roots, Routes, Routers: Communications and Media of Contemporary Social Movements. Journalism & Communication Monographs Series, 20(2): 92-136.   [PDF]
• Lim, M. 2018. Sticks and Stones, Clicks and Phones: Contextualizing the Role of Digital Media in the Politics of Transformation. In: Richter C., Antonakis A., Harders C. (eds) Digital Media and the Politics of Transformation in the Arab World and Asia (pp. 9-34). Springer VS.    [PDF]

2017

• Dobson, K. & Knezevic, I. 2017. ‘Liking and Sharing:’ the Stigmatization of Poverty and Social Welfare: Representations of Poverty and Welfare Memes on Social Media. Triple C: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 15(2) []
• 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.  [PDF]
• Lim, M. 2017. Sweeping the Unclean: Social Media and the Bersih Electoral Reform in Malaysia. Global Media Journal, 14(27). [PDF]
• 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. [PDF]

Relevant publications, Pre-ALiGN … – 2016

• Dobson, K. & Hunsinger, J. 2016. The Political Economy of WikiLeaks: Transparency and Accountability through Digital and Alternative Media.Studies in Communication and Culture, 7(2): 217-233. 
• Rajani, N. (2016). “A prehistory of the cloud” by Tung-Hui Hu. Journal of Communication, 66: E12-E14. (Book review). [].
• 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. 
• Dobson, K. 2015. In their own words. In N. Ives, M. Donov & T. Sussman (Eds.), Introduction to Social Work in Canada: Histories, Contexts, and Practices. Oxford University Press.
• Lim, M. 2015. A Cyber–Urban Space Odyssey: The Spatiality of Contemporary Social Movements. New Geographies, 07: 117–123. [PDF]
• 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. 
• Agarwal, N., Lim, M., Wigand, R. (eds.) 2014.  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.     A shorter version is translated into Indonesian and republished as: Lim, M. (2015) Media Baru, Meninjau Ruang Masyarakat, Jejaring dan Gerakan dalam Ruang Urban Digital, Etnohistori, .
• Yuce, S., Agarwal, N. , Lim, M. , Robinson, R.S., Wigand, R. 2014. Studying the Evolution of Online Collective Action: Saudi Arabian Women’s ‘Oct26Driving’ Campaign on Twitter. Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral–Cultural Modeling, and Prediction (Washington DC, April 2–4), Springer. []
• Dobson, K. 2013. Journalism Interest Group Proceedings, “?”
• Lim, M. 2013. Framing Bouazizi: White Lies, Hybrid Network, and Collective/Connective Action in the 2010–2011 Tunisian Uprising, Journalism, 14(7): 921–941. 
• Lim, M. 2013. Many Clicks but Little Sticks: Social Media Activism in Indonesia, Journal of Contemporary Asia, 43(4): 636–657. . Translated into Indonesian and republished as: Lim, M. (2015) Klik yang Tak Memantik: Aktivisme Media Sosial di Indonesia, Jurnal Komunikasi Indonesia, 3(1). Reprinted in: Shah, N. et al. (2015) Digital Activism in Asia Reader, Leuphana University of Luneburg, Germany: Meson Press, 127–154.
• 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.  .
• Yuce, S., Agarwal, N., Lim, M., Robinson, R.S., Wigand, R. 2013. . Proceedings of Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (Jeju Island, Korea, June 18–22).
• Lim, M. 2012. Life is Local in the Imagined Global Community: Islam and Politics in the Indonesian Blogosphere, Journal of Media and Religion, 11(3): 127–140. 
• Lim, M. 2012. Clicks, Cabs, Coffee Houses: Social Media and the Oppositional Movements in Egypt (2004–2011), Journal of Communication, 62(2): 231–248. 
• Agarwal, N. , Lim, M. , Wigand, R.  2012. Raising and Rising Voices: A Novel Methodological Approach in Studying Cyber–Collective Movements, Business & Information Systems Engineering, 3: 113–126.   Translated into German as: Meinungsäußerung und–bildung in sozialen Medien: Ein neuer methodischer Ansatz zur Untersuchung cybersozialer Bewegungen, Wirtschaftsinformatik, 3: 107–122
• Lim, M. 2012. , Strategic Review: The Indonesian Journal of Leadership, Policy, and World Affair, 2(02, April–June): 52–60.
• Lim, M. 2012. . The Architectural Review, 24(April): 20–2.
• Agarwal, N., Lim, M., Wigand, R.  2012. Online Collective Action and The Role of Social Media in Mobilizing Opinions, in C.G. Reddick & S.K. Aikins (eds.), Web 2.0 Technologies and Democratic Governance: Political, Policy and Management Implications, New York NY: Springer, 99–123. []
• Lim, M. 2012. Democratised/Corporatised: Contesting Media in the Post–Authoritarian Indonesia, in A. Puddephatt et al., A New Frontier, An Old Landscape, London: Global Partners & Associates, 156–181. []