Select Publications
White papers and reports ✍🏻
Gabrielle Lim, “Frustrating the State: Surveillance, Public Health, and the Role of Civil Society ,” Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy, McGill University, 2020.
Joan Donovan, Brian Friedberg, Gabrielle Lim, Nicole Leaver, Jennifer Nilsen, and Emily Dreyfuss, “Mitigating Medical Misinformation: A Whole-of-Society Approach to Countering Spam, Scams, and Hoaxes ,” Harvard Shorenstein Center, 2020.
Brian Friedberg, Gabrielle Lim, and Joan Donovan, “Space Invaders: The Networked Terrain of Zoom Bombing ,” Harvard Shorenstein Center, 2020, DOI: 10.37016/TASC-2020-02.
Gabrielle Lim, “Securitize/Counter-Securitize: The Life and Death of Malaysia’s Anti-Fake News Act ,” Data and Society Research Institute, 2020.
Gabrielle Lim, Etienne Maynier, John Scott-Railton, Alberto Fittarelli, Ned Moran, and Ron Deibert, “Burned After Reading: Endless Mayfly’s Ephemeral Disinformation Campaign ,” Citizen Lab, University of Toronto, 2019.
Gabrielle Lim, “Disinformation Annotated Bibliography ,” Citizen Lab, University of Toronto, 2019.
Book chapters 📚
Gabrielle Lim and Alexei Abrahams, “Hierarchy Over Diversity: Influence and Disinformation on Twitter,” in Cyber-Threats to Canadian Democracy , eds. Holly Ann Garnett and Michael Pal (McGill–Queen’s University Press, Forthcoming)
Gabrielle Lim, Alexei Abrahams, Joan Donovan, “Make it Trend! Setting Right Wing Media Agendas Using Twitter Hashtags ,” in The Social Media Debate: Unpacking the Social, Psychological, and Cultural Effects of Social Media , ed. Devan Rosen (Routledge, 2021).
Gabrielle Lim and Joan Donovan, “Detect, Document, and Debunk: Studying Media Manipulation and Disinformation Campaigns ,” in the Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Digital Media , eds. Deana Rohlinger and Sarah Sobieraj (Oxford University Press, 2021).
Gabrielle Lim, “Attributing Endless Mayfly ,” in Verification Handbook: For Disinformation And Media Manipulation , ed. Craig Silverman (European Journalism Centre, 2020).
Conference papers 📄
Gabrielle Lim, “Liberal Realism and the Ethics of Outer Space Governance,” International Studies Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, 2024.
Samantha Bradshaw and Gabrielle Lim, “Unpacking the Effect of Regime Types on Responses to Misinformation,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, 2021.
Gabrielle Lim, Irene Poetranto, Justin Lau, “Populist Politics and the Securitization of COVID-19 in the Philippines: Outcomes and Risks,“ Re:Locations Symposium – Resilience & Disaster: The Global South during COVID-19, University of Toronto, November 23, 2020.
Matt Goerzen, Elizabeth Anne Watkins, and Gabrielle Lim, “Entanglements and Exploits: Sociotechnical Security as an Analytic Framework ,” USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet, Santa Clara, CA, 2019.
Popular articles and commentary 📰
Gabrielle Lim and Lotus Ruan, “Balancing Reality and Fear: Why An Alarmist Take on Chinese Influence Operations Is Counterproductive ,” Just Security , July 21, 2021.
Joan Donovan and Gabrielle Lim, “The Internet Is a Crime Scene ,” Foreign Policy , January 20, 2021.
Joan Donovan, Emily Dreyfuss, Brian Friedberg, and Gabrielle Lim, “A Blueprint for Documenting and Debunking Misinformation Campaigns ,” Nieman Reports , October 20, 2020.
Gabrielle Lim, “The Risks of Exaggerating Foreign Influence Operations and Disinformation ,” Centre for International Governance Innovation , August 7, 2020.
Alexei Abrahams and Gabrielle Lim, “Repress/Redress: What the ‘War on Terror’ Can Teach Us about Fighting Misinformation ,” Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review 1, no. 5 (July 22, 2020).
Gabrielle Lim, Brian Friedberg, and Joan Donovan, “3 Ways To Counter Authoritarian Overreach During the Coronavirus Pandemic ,” Nieman Reports , April 22, 2020.
Brian Friedberg, Joan Donovan, and Gabrielle Lim, “Vote and Die: Covering Voter Suppression during the Coronavirus Pandemic ,” Nieman Reports , April 14, 2020.
Gabrielle Lim and Joan Donovan, “Republicans Want Twitter to Ban Chinese Communist Party Accounts. That’s a Dangerous Idea ,” Slate , April 3, 2020.
