Merlyna Lim

Merlyna Lim is a scholar studying ICT (Information and Communication Studies), particularly on the social shaping of the Internet in non-Western contexts. She is a faculty member of the School of Social Transformation Justice and Social Inquiry Program and the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes at Arizona State University. She previously held a Networked Public Research Associate position at the Annenberg Center for Communication at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. She got her PhD, with distinction (cum laude), from University of Twente in Enschede, The Netherlands, with a dissertation entitled @rchipelago Online: The Internet and Political Activism in Indonesia.

She has been invited to give keynote speeches, public lectures, and various academic presentations in more than 100 occasions all over the world, including a plenary lecture at the Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) in 2006 in Brisbane, Australia and a keynote speech at the International Conference on Civic Space (ICCS) in 2010 in Jakarta, Indonesia.

She is also an active blogger, with blogs in English, Indonesian, and Sundanese.

Awards and honors

• 2011 Selected as one of Indonesian 100 Most Inspiring Women—2011 Kartini Awards.
• 2010 Our Common Future Fellowship 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 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. (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.
• Lim, M. (2007), “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.
• Lim, M (2006). "Lost in Transition: The Internet and Reformasi in Indonesia". In Jodi Dean, Jon Anderson and Geert Lovink. Reformatting Politics: Networked Communications and Global Civil Society. London: Routledge. pp. 85–106. 
• Lim, M (2006). "Cyber-Urban Activism and Political Change in Indonesia". Eastbound Journal 2006 (1): 1–19. 
• Lim, M (2005). Islamic Radicalism and Anti Americanism in Indonesia: The Role of the Internet. Policy Studies Series #18. Washington DC: East West Center. ISBN 978-1-932728-35-4. ISSN 1547-1330. 
• Lim, M (2004). "The Polarization of Identity through the Internet and the Struggle for Democracy in Indonesia (La polarization de l'identite a travers l'internet et la lutte pour la democratie en indonesie)". Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue Electronique de Communication 14 (3–4). ISSN 1183-5656. 
• Lim, M (2004). "Informational Terrains of Identity and Political Power: The Internet in Indonesia". Indonesian Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology XXVII (73, January–April edition): 1–11. ISSN 0216-1576. 
• Lim, M (2003). "From War-net to Net-War: The Internet and Resistance Identities in Indonesia". The International Information & Library Review (Elsevier Publisher) 35 (2–4): 233–248. doi:10.1016/S1057-2317(03)00019-5. ISSN 1057-2317. 
• Lim, M (2003). "From Real to Virtual (and back again): Civil Society, Public Sphere, and Internet in Indonesia". In K. C. Ho, R. Kluver, & C. C. Yang. From Real to Virtual (and back again): Civil Society, Public Sphere, and Internet in Indonesia. Routledge. 113–128. ISBN 041-531-503-4. 
• Lim, M (2003). "The Internet, Social Network and Reform in Indonesia". In N. Couldry and J. Curran. Contesting Media Power: Alternative Media in A Networked World. Rowan & Littlefield. pp. 273–288. ISBN 0-7425-2385-3. 
• Lim, M (2002). "CyberCivic Space in Indonesia: From Panopticon to Pandemonium". International Development and Planning Review (Third World Planning Review) (Liverpool University Press) 24 (4): 383–400. doi:10.3828/idpr.24.4.3. ISSN 1474-6743. 
• Lim, M (2002). "From Walking City to Telematic Metropolis: Changing Urban Form in Bandung, Indonesia". In Tim Bunnell, Lisa B. W. Drummond & K. C. Ho. Critical Reflections on Cities in Southeast Asia. Brill Publisher and Times Academic Press. pp. 75–100. ISBN 981-210-192-6. 
• Lim, M (2000). "The Benefit of Virtual Space: Informing the Real World Design (Part Two)". Architecture Journal Tatanan: 141–148. ISSN 0215-7825. 
• Lim, M (1999). "The Benefit of Virtual Space: Informing the Real World Design (Part One)". Architecture Journal Tatanan: 41–48. ISSN 0215-7825. 

References

• http://www.asu.edu/clas/justice/faculty-staff/MerlynaLim.html
• http://www.cspo.org/about/people/lim.htm
• http://www.merlyna.org/pubs
• http://conferences.aoir.org/program.php?pdf=1&cf=5
• http://www.nwo.nl/nwohome.nsf/pages/NWOP_6FRGN4_Eng?Opendocument
• http://larvatusprodeo.net/2006/09/26/things-internetty/
• http://dialogue.media-culture.org.au/node/20

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Name	Lim, Merlyna
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Date of birth	1973
Place of birth	Bandung, Indonesia
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