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.

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