Liao Han-teng

Liao Han-teng currently a doctoral student at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), University of Oxford, Han-Teng Liao studies the two major user-contributed online Chinese encyclopedias, Chinese Wikipedia and Baidu Baike.  Recognizing the general Enlightenment impulse for peace in encyclopedia projects, he compares how various wars are managed in these two cases: military wars that had erupted in the last century, media and information wars that have persisted since the Cold War, flame wars between Internet users, and edit wars among contributors.  His preliminary findings show two increasingly segregated spheres: Chinese-written Internet and China’s Internet. 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.