Andrew Lih | |||
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Lih speaking at the National Archives and Records Administration in 2015
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Native name | (simplified Chinese: 郦安治; traditional Chinese: 酈安治; pinyin: Lì Ānzhì) | ||
Born | 1968 (age 48–49) | ||
Residence | Washington, District of Columbia, United States | ||
Nationality | American | ||
Other names | Fuzheado | ||
Alma mater | Columbia University | ||
Occupation | Scientist and professor | ||
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Website | andrewlih |
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Andrew Lih (simplified Chinese: 郦安治; traditional Chinese: 酈安治; pinyin: Lì Ānzhì; born 1968) is an American new media researcher, consultant and writer, as well as an authority on both and internet censorship in the People's Republic of China. He is currently an associate professor of journalism at American University in Washington, D.C.
Lih worked as a software engineer for AT&T Bell Labs from 1990 to 1993. He founded the new-media startup Mediabridge Infosystems in 1994. He also obtained a Masters degree in Computer Science from Columbia University in 1994.
From 1995 to 2000 he served as an adjunct professor of journalism at Columbia, and director of technology for their Center for New Media. In 2000 he formed Columbia's Interactive Design Lab, a collaboration with the university's School of the Arts to explore interactive design for both fiction and non-fiction, including advertising, news, documentaries and films. Soon afterward, Lih served as an assistant professor and the Director of Technology at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre of the University of Hong Kong.
He then moved to Beijing, China, where he lived until 2009. He currently lives in Washington, D.C., where he is an associate professor at American University's School of Communication.