Journal Articles

Digital networks and social impact
  1. Lim, S. S., & Bouffanais, R. (2022). 'Data dregs' and its implications for AI ethics: Revelations from the pandemic. AI and Ethics. 
  2. Tan, G. K. S. & Lim, S. S. (2022). Communicative Strategies for Building Public Confidence in Data Governance: Analyzing Singapore’s Covid-19 Contact-Tracing Initiatives. Big Data & Society, 9(1), 1-5. 
  3. Bouffanais, R. & Lim, S. S. (2020).  Cities — try to predict superspreading hotspots for COVID-19. Nature,  583(7816): 352-355.
  4. Lim, S. S. (2020). Manufacturing Hate 4.0: Can Media Studies Rise to the Challenge? Television and New Media, 21(6): 602-607. 
  5. Lim, S.S. & Bouffanais, R. (2019). From Senseless Swarms to Smart Mobs: Tuning Networks for Prosocial Behaviour. IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, 38(4), 17-19. 
  6. Lim, S. S., Bork-Huffer, T., & Yeoh, B. (2016). Manoeuvring through Physical and Virtual Spaces: Mobility, Migration and New Media. New Media & Society, 18(10), 2147–2154. 
  7. Gordon, I., & Lim, S. S. (2016). Cultural Industries and Transmedia in a Time of Convergence: Origins, Literacies, and Futures. The Information Society, 32(5), 301-305.
  8. Lim, S. S. (2015). On stickers and communicative fluidity in social media. Social Media and Society, 1(1), 1-3.
  9. Lim, S. S., & Goggin, G. (2014). Mobile communication in Asia - Issues and imperatives. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, 19(3),  663-666. 
  10. Soriano, C., Lim, S. S., & Rivera, M. (2014). The Virgin Mother with a mobile phone –  representations of mothering and mobile consumption in Philippine television advertisements. Communication, Culture & Critique, 8(11), 1-19.  Lead article. 
  11. Hjorth, L., & Lim, S. S. (2012). Women and mobile intimacy in an age of social media and affective technology. Feminist Media Studies, 12(4), 477-484. 
  12. Lim, S. S., Cho, H., & Rivera, M. (2009). Online Privacy, Government Surveillance and National ID Cards - Exploring their relationship. Communications of the ACM, 52(12), 116-129.
  13. Cho, H., Rivera, M., & Lim, S. S. (2009). A multinational study on online privacy: global concerns and local responses, New Media and Society, 11(3), 409-431. 
  14. Lim, S. S., & Chung, L. Y. (2004). The Dance of Life (Digital Remix) – The Impact of Mobile Communication on Time Use. Media Asia, 31(1), 37-43.
  15. Rivera, M., Cho, H., & Lim, S. S. (2004). Consumers’ Online Privacy Concerns. World Internet Law Report, 5(4), 29-32.
  16. Lim, S. S. (2002). The experiential dimensions of online shopping: An ethnographic analysis of online store websites. Asian Journal of Communication, 12(2), 79-99. 
  17. Lim, S. S. (2002). The Self-Confrontation Interview, Enhancing our Understanding of Human Factors in Web-based Interaction. Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, August, 162-173. 
Technology domestication by young people and families
  1. Yee, A.Z.H., Yu, R., Lim, S.S. et al. (2022). ScreenLife Capture: An open-source and user-friendly framework for collecting screenomes from Android smartphones. Behaviour Research Methods. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-022-02006-z
  2. Lim, S. S. & Wang, Y. (2021). Lessons from our living rooms: Illuminating lockdowns with technology domestication insights. Journal of Children and Media, 15(1), 17-20.
  3. Wang, Y., & Lim, S. S. (2020). Digital asymmetries in transnational communication: Expectation, autonomy and gender positioning in the household. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 25(6), 365-381.
  4. Wang, Y. & Lim, S. S. (2020). Nomadic life archiving across platforms: Hyperlinked storage and compartmentalized sharing. New Media & Society. In press. 
  5. An, S., Lim, S. S. & Lee, H. (2020). Marriage migrants’ use of social media. Asian Journal of Communication, 30(2), 83-99. 
  6. Pham, B., & Lim, S. S. (2019). Vietnamese pre-schoolers' tablet use and early childhood learning: an ecological investigation. Journal of Children and Media, 13(3), 1-19.
  7. Jiow, J. H., Lim, S. S., & Lin, J. (2017). Level Up! Refreshing Parental Mediation Theory for our Digital Media Landscape. Communication Theory, 27(3), 309-328. 
  8. Lim, S. S., & Pham, B. (2016). “If you are a foreigner in a foreign country, you stick together”: Technologically-mediated communication and acculturation of migrant students. New Media & Society, 18(10), 2171–2188.
  9. Lim, S. S. (2016). Through the tablet glass: Mobile media, cloud computing and transcendent parenting. Journal of Children & Media, (1), 21-29.
  10. Lim, S. S. (2014). Preparing young scholars of children and media for the ethical review process. Journal of Children and Media, 8(4), 498-500.
  11. Lim, S. S. (2013). On mobile communication and youth deviance – Beyond moral, media and mobile panics. Mobile Media & Communication, 1(1), 96-101.
  12. Jiow, H. J., & Lim, S. S. (2012). The evolution of video games and growing challenges for parental mediation. Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 32(6), 452 – 459. 
  13. Lim, S. S., & Clark, L. S. (2010). Virtual worlds as a site of convergence for children’s play. Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, 3(2), 2-19. 
  14. Lim, S. S., & Soon, C. (2010). The influence of social and cultural factors on mothers' domestication of household ICTs - experiences of Chinese and Korean women. Telematics and Informatics, 27 (3), 205-216. Lead article. 
  15. Lim, S. S. (2008). Technology domestication in the Asian homestead: Comparing the experiences of middle class families in China and South Korea. East Asian Science, Technology and Society, 2(2), 189-209. 
  16. Lim, S. S. (2005). A contextualised understanding of youth, media and the Asian family. Journal of Development Communication, 16(1), 20-28.
  17. Lim, S. S., & Tan, Y. L. (2004). Parental Control of New Media Usage – The Challenges of Infocomm Illiteracy. Australian Journal of Communication, 31(1), 57-74.
  18. Lim, S. S., & Tan, Y. L. (2003). Old People And New Media In Wired Societies, Exploring The Socio-Digital Divide In Singapore. Media Asia, 30(2), 95-102.
Digital literacy, upskilling and social inclusion
  1. Trenerry, B., Chng, S., Wang, Y., Lim, S. S. & Oh, P.H. (2022). Mobilising workers via digital means: Reinventing trade unions for the digital age. Singapore Labour Journal, 1, 6-19.
  2. Ng, I. Y. H. Lim, S. S. & Pang, N. (2022). Making universal digital access universal: lessons from COVID‑19 in Singapore. Universal Access in the Information Society,  
  3.  Trenerry, B., Chng, S., Wang, Y., Suhaila, Z. S., Lim, S. S., Lu, H. Y., & Oh, P. H. (2021). Preparing Workplaces for Digital Transformation: An Integrative Review and Framework of Multi-Level Factors. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 822.
  4. Lim, S. S. & Tan, K. R. (2020). Front liners fighting fake news: global perspectives on mobilising young people as media literacy advocates Journal of Children and Media, 14(4), 529-535.
  5. Zhao, X. & Lim, S. S. (2020). Online Patriarchal Bargains and Social Support: Struggles and Strategies of Unwed Single Mothers in China. Television and New Media, 22(7), 815-834. 
  6. An, S., Lim, S. S., Lee, H., & Pham, B. (2018). Overcoming Prejudice, Seeking Support: Transnational Social Media Communication of Female Vietnamese Students in South Korea and Singapore. Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration, 2(2), 107-126. 
  7. Livingstone, S., Lemish, D., Lim, S. S., Bulger, M., Cabello, P. , Claro, M., … Wei, B.  (2017). Global Perspectives on Children’s Digital Opportunities: An Emerging Research and Policy Agenda. Pediatrics.  
  8. Lim, S. S. (2017). Youth workers' use of Facebook for mediated pastoralism with juvenile delinquents and youths-at-risk. Children and Youth Services Review, 81, 139-147. 
  9. Lim, S. S., Basnyat, I., Vadrevu, S., & Chan, Y. H. (2013). Critical literacy, self-protection and delinquency: the challenges of participatory media for youths at-risk.  Learning, Media and Technology, 38(2), 145-160. 
  10. Lim, S. S., Chan, Y. H., Vadrevu, S., & Basnyat, I. (2013). Managing peer relationships online - investigating the use of Facebook by juvenile delinquents and youths-at-risk.  Computers in Human Behaviour, 29(1), 8-15.  
  11. Lim, S. S., Vadrevu, S., Chan, Y. H., & Basnyat, I. (2012). Facework on Facebook:  the online publicness of juvenile delinquents and youths-at-risk.  Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 56 (3), 346-361.  
  12. Lim, S. S. (2009). Home, School, Borrowed, Public or Mobile: Variations in Young Singaporeans’ Internet Access. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, 14(4), 1228–1256.  
  13. Lim, S. S., & Nekmat, E. (2008). Learning through prosuming, insights from media literacy programmes in Asia. Science, Technology and Society, 13(2), 259-278.​

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