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Exploring the challenges which isolated geographies face when dealing with risk and disasters by examining the processes which create, maintain, and could be used to reduce their vulnerability.
The Gender and Disaster Network is an educational project initiated by women and men interested in gender relations in disaster contexts.
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- Current Professional Affiliation
- University of Colorado at Boulder
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- PhD Candidate
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- http://sophiabliu.com
- What are you working on?
- 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. This research explores how social media technology has the potential to support new kinds of heritage practices at the grassroots level by being both the tools and the sites for facilitating heritage production and sharing among the public, what I term “grassroots heritage.”
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