Sophia Liu
Sophia Liu is currently a Ph.D. candidate and a National Science Foundation graduate research fellow at the University of Colorado at Boulder in the Technology, Media and Society program in the Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society Institute.
Liu dissertation research focuses on the use of social media in the crisis context as it relates to emerging cultural heritage values and practices. She uses ethnographic methods to study the use of various social media technology during recent disasters, as well as other crises that have occurred over the past generation. She also investigates an emerging practice that she calls “socially-distributed curation,” where members of the public use social media to collectively aggregate, filter, remix, preserve, and share stories back to the public in order to derive meaning from historical disasters to strengthen community resilience to future crises.
Liu is currently a research assistant in the connectivIT Lab and Project EPIC research team in the Department of Computer Science at CU, conducting research in the area of crisis informatics. She also worked as a graduate research assistant at the Natural Hazards Center at CU.
Liu received her bachelor's in social science specializing in research and analytical methods with a minor in information and computer science and in digital arts at the University of California at Irvine.
Related Resources from Sophia Liu
The New Cartographers: Crisis Map Mashups and the Emergence of Neogeographic Practice
With Leysia Palen, Cartography and Geographic Information Science, Volume 37, Number 1, 2010