Andrew Lih : Designing For The Internetʼs New Public Spaces
November 10th, 2009 | Published in Speakers
Andrew Lih is a new media researcher, consultant and technology author. After a decade in academia as a professor of journalism and media studies, he has spent two years researching and writing the book The Wikipedia Revolution: How a bunch of Nobodies Created the World’s Greatest Encyclopedia, the only nonfiction narrative account about the online community that has created one of the most influential Web sites in the world.
After founding one of the first dot-com companies in New York in 1994, from 1995 to 2000, he created the new media program at the Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism where he served as adjunct professor and director of technology for their Center for New Media. Lih’s work and commentary have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, South China Morning Post, The Standard (HK), BBC, National Public Radio (US), MSNBC and CNN International, among others.
新媒体研究者、咨询顾问、科技类专栏作家。在学术界的十余年间，担任新闻与媒体学教授，之后用10 年时间研究并 写了《维基百科的革命： 一群无名者是如何创建世界上最好的百科全书的》，史无前例地详细描述了创建这个世界上最有影响力网站的网络群体。
1994年，在纽约创立 第一个网络公司。1995年到2000年之间，他在哥伦比亚大学的新闻传播学院创办了新媒体学科，并且担任教授和新媒体中心的技术总监。他的 作品以及评论曾被《纽约时报》、《华尔街日报》、《南华早报》、《英文虎报》、BBC、美国国家公共广播、MSNBC和CNN国际版等多家媒 体选用。