Book Chapters
Technology domestication by young people and families
- Lim, S. S., & Fernandez, T. M. (2023). The ceaseless domestication of mobile communication in Asia. In M. Hartmann (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Media and Technology Domestication (pp. 123-136). New York: Routledge.
- Lim, S. S. & Wang, Y. (2023). Social media and performative parenting: Negotiating parenting norms in an era of connectivity. In M. Skoric & N. Pang (Eds.) Research Handbook on Social Media and Society. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. In press.
- Lim, S. S. (2022). Media and Peer Culture: Young people sharing norms and collective identities with and through media. In D. Lemish (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Children, Adolescents and Media (2nd ed.) (pp. 347-354). New York: Routledge.
- Götz, M., Mendel, C., Lim, S. S. & M. García-González. (2022). Living Under Shutdown: Uncovering Children’s Lived Experiences And Concerns. In M. Götz & D. Lemish (Eds.), Children and Media Worldwide in a Time of a Pandemic. New York: Peter Language. In press.
- Wang, Y., & Lim, S. S. (2021). ICTs and transnational householding: the double burden of polymedia connectivity for international “study mothers”. In M. McAuliffe (Ed), Handbook of migration and technology. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. In press.
- Wang, Y., & Lim, S. S. (2018). Mediating intimacies through mobile communication: Chinese migrant mothers’ digital ‘bridge of magpies. In R. Andreassen, M. N. Petersen, K. Harrison, & T. Raun (Eds.), Mediated Intimacies: Connectivities, Relationalities and Proximities (pp. 159-178). London: Routledge.
- Lim, S. S. (2018). Transcendent Parenting in Digitally Connected Families: When the Technological Meets the Social. In G. Mascheroni, C. Ponte & A. Jorge (Eds.), Digital Parenting: The Challenges for Families in the Digital Age (pp. 31-39). Gothenburg: Nordic Information Centre for Media & Communication Research.
- Pham, B., & Lim, S. S. (2018). Bridging Parental Expectations and Children's Aspirations: Creative Strategies in Migrant Students' Mediated Communication with their Left-behind Families. In C. Gomes & B. S. A. Yeoh (Eds.), Transnational Migrations in the Asia-Pacific (pp.25-44). London: Rowman & Littlefield.
- Lim, S. S. (2017). Through the tablet glass: Mobile media, cloud computing and transcendent parenting. In D. Lemish, A. Jordan & V. Rideout (Eds.), Children, Adolescents, and Media - The future of research and action (pp. 18-26). London: Routledge.
- Lim, S. S., & Wang, Y. (2017). How are young people connecting with their families through mobile communication? In N.A. Jennings & S. R. Mazzarella (Eds.), Twenty Questions about Youth and Media. 2nd edition. New York: Peter Lang.
- Loh, S. M., & Lim, S. S. (2017). Youth Digital Culture. In R. Hobbs & P. Mihailidis (Eds.), The International Encyclopaedia of Media Literacy. New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
- Lim, S. S. (2016). Young people and communication technologies: Emerging challenges in generational analysis. In J. Nussbaum (Ed.), Communication Across the Lifespan (pp. 5-19). New York: Peter Lang.
- Lim, S. S. (2016). Asymmetries in Asian families’ domestication of mobile communication. In S.S. Lim (Ed.), Mobile Communication and the Family - Asian Experiences in Technology Domestication (pp. 1-9). Dordrecht: Springer.
- Rahayu, & Lim, S. S. (2016). Balancing Religion, Technology and Parenthood: Indonesian Muslim mothers’ supervision of children’s internet use. In S.S. Lim (Ed.), Mobile Communication and the Family - Asian Experiences in Technology Domestication (pp.33-50). Dordrecht: Springer.
- Pham, B., & Lim, S. S. (2016). Empowering interactions, sustaining ties: Vietnamese migrant students’ communication with left-behind family and friends. In S.S. Lim (Ed.), Mobile Communication and the Family - Asian Experiences in Technology Domestication (pp. 109-126). Dordrecht: Springer.
- Lim, S. S. (2013). Media and Peer Culture: Young people sharing norms and collective identities with and through media. In D. Lemish (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Children, Adolescents and Media (pp. 322-328). New York: Routledge.
- Lim, S. S. (2008). Youth and New Media – Exploring, Consuming, Producing. In S. S. Lim, R. Sison & D.Y. Kim (Eds.), The Promise of ICTs in Asia: Key Trends and Issues (pp. 93-108). Seoul: Jimoondang.
- Lim, S. S. (2006). From cultural to information revolution: ICT domestication by middle-class families in urban China. In M. Hartmann, T. Berker, Y. Punie & K. Ward (Eds.), Domestication of media and technology (pp. 185-204). Maidenhead: Open University Press
Digital literacy, upskilling and social inclusion
- Lim, S. S. (2022). Lessons from My Extended Classroom: Tempering Technological Utopianism with Circumspection. In A. Ong (Ed.), The Nominated Member of Parliament Scheme: Are Unelected Voices Still Necessary in Parliament? A Collection of Perspectives and Personal Reflections by NMPs (pp. 88-102). World Scientific.
- Lim, S. S. (2022). Underserved, underrepresented, unaware: Uplifting women through digital literacy initiatives. In G. Haciyakopoglu & B. Ang (Eds.), Gender, Security and Digital Space: Exploring risks, opportunities, and security implications. London: Routledge. In press.
- Lim, S. S., & Suhaila. Z. S. (2022). Bridging Singapore's Digital Divides: Making Our Smart Nation Smarter. In I. A. Mokhtar & Y. Ibrahim (Eds.), Social Context, Policies, and Changes in Singapore: Beyond the First 50 Years (pp. 439-449). World Scientific.
- Lim, S. S. & Suhaila. Z. S. (2021). Digital media and youth on the margins: growth, belonging and identity in a technologizing world. In M. J. Brites & T. S. Castro (Eds.), Digital citizenship, literacies and contexts of inequalities (pp. 59-68). Lisbon: Edições Universitárias Lusófonas.
- Lim, S. S. & Loh, R. S. M. (2020). Young people, smartphones, invisible illiteracies: Closing the potentiality-actuality chasm in mobile media. In E. Polson, L. S. Clark & R. Gajjala (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Media and Class (pp. 132-141). New York: Routledge
- Loh, S. M., & Lim, S. S. (2017). Media Literacy in Singapore. In R. Hobbs & P. Mihailidis (Eds.), The International Encyclopaedia of Media Literacy. New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
- Vadrevu, S., & Lim, S. S. (2012). Youth, politics and social media in Southeast Asia: Trends, events and implications. In W. Hofmeister (Ed.), Youth: Future agents of change or guardians of establishment? (pp. 19-28). Singapore: Konrad Adenauer Stiftung.
- Lim, S. S. (2012). Regulatory initiatives for managing online risks and opportunities for youths – the East Asian experience. In M. Walrave (Ed.), e-Youth: Balancing between opportunities and risks? (pp. 271-290). Brussels: Peter Lang.
- Lim, S. S., Nekmat, E. & Vadrevu, S. (2011). Singapore’s experience in fostering youth media production –the implications of state-led school and public education initiatives. In J. Fisherkeller (Ed.), International Perspectives on Youth Media: Cultures of Production & Education (pp. 84-102). New York: Peter Lang.
- Lim, S. S., Nekmat, E., & Nahar, S. N. (2011). The implications of multimodality for media literacy. In K. O’Halloran & B. A. Smith (Eds.), Multimodal Studies – Exploring Issues and Domains (pp. 169-183). London: Routledge.
- Lim, S. S., & Nekmat, E. (2009). Media Education in Singapore – New Media, New Literacies? In C. K. Cheung (Ed.) Media Education in Asia (pp.185-197). Netherlands: Springer
Digital networks and social impact
- Tan, G. S. K., Lim, S. S. & Kheng, R. (2021). Lethal, viral, global: Mobile media and the growing international scourge of fake news. In D. L. Jin (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Digital Media and Globalisation. London: Routledge. In press.
- Lim, S. S., & Soriano, C. (2016). A (digital) giant awakens – Invigorating media studies with Asian perspectives. In S. S. Lim & C. Soriano (Eds.), Asian Perspectives on Digital Culture: Emerging Phenomena, Enduring Concepts (pp. 3-14). London: Routledge.
- Lim, S. S., & Basnyat I. (2016). Face and online social networking. In S. S. Lim & C. Soriano (Eds.), Asian Perspectives on Digital Culture: Emerging Phenomena, Enduring Concepts (pp. 17-32). London: Routledge.
- Soriano, C., & Lim, S. S. (2016). Ritual and communal connection in mobile phone communication: Representations of kapwa, bayanihan and “People Power” in the Philippines. In S. S Lim & C. Soriano (Eds.), Asian Perspectives on Digital Culture: Emerging Phenomena, Enduring Concepts (pp. 100-116). London: Routledge.
- Lim, S. S., & Pham, B. (2015). Digital connections and disjunctures of migrant students. In N. Worth, C. Dwyer & T. Skelton (Eds.), Geographies of Identities and Subjectivities, Vol. 4. Geographies of Children and Young People, (pp. 315-331). Singapore: Springer.
- Lim, S. S., Pham, B., & Cheong, K. (2015). At the crossroads of change –New media and migration in Asia. In L. Hjorth & O. Khoo (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of New Media in Asia (pp. 241-250). London: Routledge.
- Lim, S. S. (2014). Women, ‘double work’ and mobile media: The more things change, the more they stay the same. In G. Goggin & L. Hjorth (Eds.), Routledge Companion to Mobile Media (pp. 356-364). London: Routledge.
- Thomas, M., & Lim, S. S. (2011). On maids and mobile phones: ICT use by female migrant workers in Singapore and its policy implications. In J. Katz (Ed.), Mobile communication: Dimensions of social policy (pp. 175-190). New Jersey: Transaction.
- Lim, S. S., & Ooi, J. (2011). Girls talk tech: Exploring Singaporean girls’ perceptions of technology. In M. C. Kearney (Ed.), Mediated Girlhood: New Explorations of Girls' Media Culture (pp. 243-260). New York: Peter Lang.
- Lim, S. S. (2010). ‘Your phone makes you, you’: Exploring the youth script in teen magazine representations of mobile media. In S. H. Donald, T. Anderson & D. Spry (Eds.), Youth, Society and Mobile Media in Asia (pp. 43-56). London: Routledge.
- Lim, S. S., Sison, R., & Kim, D. Y. (2008). ICT adoption in Asia – Experiences and Insights. In S. S. Lim, R. Sison & D.Y. Kim (Eds.) , The Promise of ICTs in Asia: Key Trends and Issues (pp. 1-16). Seoul: Jimoondang.
- Lim, S. S. (2007). New media and the Singaporean: Rediscovering the lost art of media literacy. In T.H. Tan (Ed.), Singapore Perspectives 2007: A New Singapore (pp. 79-92). Singapore: Institute of Policy Studies and Marshall Cavendish Academic.
- Chung, L. Y., & Lim, S. S. (2005). From Monochronic to Mobilechronic – Temporality in the Era of Mobile Communication. In K. Nyiri (Ed.), A Sense of Place: The Global and the Local in Mobile Communication (pp. 267-282). Vienna: Passagen Verlag.