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Merlyna Lim

Assistant Professor

Merlyna Lim is an assistant professor at the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes and the School of Justice and Social Inquiry at Arizona State University. Her research interests revolve around the political shaping and societal construction of technology, focusing on new media and information and communication technology (ICT). She
conducts research on the mutual shaping of the Internet and politics in non-Western contexts (especially in Southeast Asia), political dimensions
of networked publics (online deliberation vs. mobilization), and the politics of space (civic spaces, in particular) and globalization. Merlyna Lim received her PhD, with distinction, from from Technology and Development Group, University of Twente in September 2005.