{"id":1961,"date":"2019-06-01T00:00:27","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T04:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/?p=1961"},"modified":"2025-07-24T14:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T18:38:07","slug":"mobilizing-emotion-not-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/2019\/mobilizing-emotion-not-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobilizing Emotion, Not Knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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MERLYNA LIM<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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As Canada prepares for a federal election, Canada Research Chair Professor Merlyna Lim is analyzing how social media users\u2014human and otherwise\u2014are mobilizing emotions rather than facts.<\/em><\/p>

In the months leading up to the Canadian election, Facebook accounts with names like \u201cTrudeau Has Got To Go\u201d, \u201cOverthrow Trudeau\u201d, and Justin Trudeau is an Idiot\u201d focus on ridiculing the Prime Minister.<\/p>

On the opposite end of the political spectrum are accounts attacking Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer, with names such as \u201cAndrew Scheer Is An Idiot\u201d, \u201cScheer Nonsense\u201d, and \u201cSchmeer 2019\u201d.<\/p>

Political cartoons and jokes are an age-old tradition. But Communication and Media Studies Professor Merlyna says that in the age of social media, hateful speech and misinformation spreads incredibly quickly\u2014intensifying the polarization within politics.<\/p>

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  May 2019 IN THE SPOTLIGHT MERLYNA LIM Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Digital Media and Global Network Society Mobilizing Emotion, Not Knowledge As Canada prepares for a federal election, Canada Research Chair Professor Merlyna Lim is analyzing how social media users\u2014human and otherwise\u2014are mobilizing emotions rather than facts. In the months leading […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[195,1,28],"tags":[168,314,23,21],"class_list":["post-1961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-coverage","category-news","category-research","tag-algorithm","tag-election","tag-politics","tag-social-media"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"announcement"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1961"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1966,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions\/1966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}