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Dec 2025 — I’m deeply grateful to share that Sketching Ottawa has been awarded the 2025 Cullingham Gordon Research and Publication Grant from Heritage Ottawa. I’m honoured to be the sole recipient of this year’s award.
I’m also delighted to learn that this body of work will be featured as part of the all-year bicentennial celebration of Bytown in 2026.
The book brings together approximately 100 hand-drawn sketches, folk histories and everyday stories, and my own personal musings, tracing Ottawa’s lived heritage—its places, rhythms, and quiet moments often overlooked. I’m thankful to Heritage Ottawa and the City of Ottawa for valuing drawing and storytelling as meaningful forms of historical care and public memory.
More to come following Heritage Ottawa’s official announcement and upcoming event.
Latest publications
Lim, M. (2025). Algorithmic enclaves. In M. Grömping, A. Nai, & D. Wirz (eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication (pp. 44-48). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://www.elgaronline.com/display/book/9781035301447/9781035301447.xml [free PDF]Limited. https://www.elgaronline.com/display/book/9781035301447/9781035301447.xml
Lim, M. (2025, Nov 27). Beyond Zohran Mamdani: Social media amplifies the politics of feelings. The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/beyond-zohran-mamdani-social-media-amplifies-the-politics-of-feelings-269792
Lim, M. (2025). Reframing algorithmic public opinion: Affect, recursive dynamics, and vernacular practices. Dialogues on Digital Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/29768640251370900.
Lim, M. (2025). In curhat we unite (and divide): Scalable affective sociability, algorithmic politics, and social media in Indonesia. Indonesia. 119 (April): 39-57. https://doi.org/10.1353/ind.2025.a961926.
Kloos, D., Lim, M., Linquist, J. (2025). Faith, Followers, and Factions: Making Social Media Publics in Indonesia. Indonesia. 119 (April): 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1353/ind.2025.a961924.
Lim, M. (2024). Social Media and Politics in Southeast Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. electronic; print
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Lim, M. (2023). “Everything everywhere all at once”: Social Media, Algorithmic/Marketing Culture, and Activism in Southeast Asia. Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, 24(2): 181-190. [PDF] or [PDF]. https://doi.org/10.1353/gia.2023.a913644. A video of Lim’s “Q&A with Author” is available here.
Lim, M. (2023). From Activist Media to Algorithmic Politics: The Internet, social media, and civil society in Southeast Asia in E. Hansson & M. Weiss, Routledge Handbook of Civil and Uncivil Society in Southeast Asia. London & New York: Routledge, pp. 25-44.
Lim, M. (2022). Alternative Imaginations: Confronting and challenging the persistent centrism in social media-society research. Journal of Asian Social Science Research, 4(1), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.15575/jassr.v4i1.59
Lim, M. (2022). #Coronaconspiracy: Algorithms, Users, and Conspiracy Theories in Social Media. M/C Journal, 25(1). https://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/view/2877
Latest & current art projects
#MUSICART: Hearing Nature, Seeing Music
Check out my current, ongoing series of #musicart—painting and piano composition.
A CAPPELLA with THE EDOENS
I’m a nerd in many things. And when it comes to singing a cappela, I’m a full-on nerd 
You haven’t really met me until you’ve seen me sing live with The Edoens 
So, the video is a glimpse into one unforgettable afternoon with The Edoens 
—our 13 April 2025 concert, brought to life after just four whirlwind rehearsals during the Ied holidays.
Check my #SKETCHINGOTTAWA project here
