Bio

My name is Sophia B Liu and I am a PhD student at University of Colorado at Boulder in an interdisciplinary program called Technology, Media and Society. Grassroots Heritage is my dissertation research exploring the use of social during times of crises and disasters but through a new heritage lens.
Grassroots Heritage is a visionary social experiment for exploring our social legacy of grassroots practices, artifacts and experiences around crises that we are collectively producing, preserving and sharing through social media for the benefit of present and future generations. Social media technologies are facilitating a new culture that is open and participatory, which deserves a grassroots approach to preserving, organizing and sharing these new heritage traditions. But with social media we also must preserve our ancient traditions from our elders and from our present communities. It is not enough to just preserve it but rather to share it through social action and cultural change. We are on the edge of some fundamental changes...

Education

High school

Hinsdale Central High School

College

University of California at Irvine

Graduate school

University of Colorado at Boulder

Additional study

University of Sussex, Brighton, England