Han-Teng Liao (Curriculum vitae)
- Doctoral Candidate, Oxford Internet Institute
- Yahoo! Fellow, Institute for the Study of Diplomacy
- Doctoral Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica
Recent Awards
- PGP Corporation Scholarship
- Best Student Paper Award, Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC) 2009
- The First Popular Science Writing Award for Social and Applied Sciences (Taiwan NSC).
- Taiwan Merit Scholarships (TMS) Program
- Han-Teng Liao’s Photo at Athens
Academic BiographyHan-Teng Liao is a student of various disciplines whose research aims to reconsider the role of keywords (sociolinguistics) and hyperlinks (webometrics) in shaping groups (governance or dynamic order) as bearers of ideas(political communication). He holds an MSc in Computer Science and Information Engineering, an MA in Journalism, a BSc in Electrical Engineering and a BA in Foreign Languages and Literatures, all from the National Taiwan University.Specifically, his DPhil project is a comparative study of two major user-contributed Chinese encyclopedias, Chinese Wikipedia and Baidu Baike. Based on preliminary data and analysis, he expects that Chinese Wikipedia, as the local embodiment of the larger global Wikipedia movement, has the potential to integrate knowledge from previously segregated linguistic, political and cultural spheres among regions such as Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore. More so than Baidu Baike which, as a follow-on and competing project launched by China’s leading search engine company, in effect reinforces Beijing’s official boundary between filtered and unfiltered Internet.His current assumptions about the general significance of user-generated encyclopedias:
- Similar to search engines, user-generated encyclopedias provide indexes of entries to the world (-wide web) that could be linguistically and geographically bounded.
- The routine boundaries drawn by search engines and user-generated encyclopedias are determined by computational linguistic and users’ linguistic capacity, which defines a certain linguistic and geographic sphere of Internet.
- Some events may temporarily or even eventually redraw the boundaries.
Hence, it is necessary to understand how the boundaries are drawn and redrawn through user-generated encyclopedias.Research interestsNet linguistics, Chinese-written Internet, governance (dynamic order), political communication, Internet filtering regimeLinks
- Hanteng’s OII blog
- Hanteng’s Personal Drafts (both in English and Chinese, not for citation, but for discussion)
- Hanteng’s Chinese Wikipedia Page
Selected publications
- Liao, H. (2009) Conflictual Consensus in the Chinese Version of Wikipedia. IEEE Technology and Society Magazine.
- Liao, H. (2009) Are Chinese characters not modern enough? An essay on their role online. GLIMPSE: the art + science of seeing 2(1).
- Liao, H. (2009) Politically and Geographically Colorful:Political Struggles to Define the True Colors of China. GLIMPSE: the art + science of seeing 2(2).
- Liao, H. (2009) The First Class for the Internet [in Chinese]. The First Popular Science Writing Award for Social and Applied Sciences. Taiwan: National Science Council.
- Liao, H. (2008) Forum: Open Source Textbook? Lessons from Wikipedia [PDF, 310kb] [in Chinese]. Journal of Textbook Research 1(2) 129-135.
- Liao, H. (2008) On Academic Freedom, Governance, and Collaboration: An “Internet Governance” Perspective [in Chinese]. Cultural Studies Monthly 82.
- Liao, H. (2006) Towards creative da-tong: An alternative notion of Creative Industries for China. International Journal of Cultural Studies 9:395-406.
- Liao, H. (2004) From Commemorations to Carnivals: On Emergent Popular-Culture Nationalism in Taiwan [in Chinese, English abstract available] (Dissertation for MA Journalism: University of Taiwan).
- Liao, H. (2003) From Commemorations to Carnivals: A Media Event Analysis of 1994-2003 New Year Eve Party. Chinese Journal of Communication Research 3:37-82.