Short Biography
Hi, I'm Lia. I grew up in the West Coast and earned my bachelors in computer science from the University of Washington, Seattle. Post undergrad, I worked in the industry (Amazon & Google) as a software engineer for a few years. I'm currently a 3rd year doctoral candidate at University of Michigan, School of Information. My advisor is Ceren Budak.
- Contact Information
- Email: lbozarth AT umich DOT edu
Research Interest
I'm interested in applying computational methods to study and address pitfalls and safeguards in online political communications.
Publication
Lia Bozarth & Joyojeet Pal, “Twitter Discourse as a Lens into Politicians' Interest in Technology and Development”, in proceedings, ICTDX (2018). Download
Lia Bozarth & Ceren Budak, “Is Slacktivism Underrated? Measuring the Value of Slacktivists for Online Social Movements”, in proceedings, ICWSM (2017). Download
In Progress
Lia Bozarth, Anmol Panda, Joyojeet Pal, “From Greetings to Corruption: Politicians, Political Parties, and Tweeting in India. Download
Lia Bozarth, Aparajita Saraf, Ceren Budak, “Higher Ground? How Groundtruth Labeling Impacts Our Understanding of the Spread of Fake News During the 2016 Election”. Download
Lia Bozarth, Ceren Budak, “Lay it Out: Detecting of Fake News Publishers through Website Structure Data”. Download
Lia Bozarth, Ceren Budak, “Beyond the Eye-Catchers: a Large-Scale Study of Social Movement Organizations' Involvement in Online Protests”. Download
In the Press
Joyojeet Pal & Lia Bozarth, “How Modi lost his mojo and Rahul roared to life on Twitter”, Quartz (2018). Article Link
Joyojeet Pal & Lia Bozarth, “Is Tweeting in Indian Languages Helping Politicians Widen Their Reach?”, Economic and Political Weekly (2018). Download
Academic Service
Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) at University of Michigan
Coordinator for the Computational Social Science Reading Group at the department level
Facilitator for SI's LGBTQ student group.
Served as a student representative within the Student Life and Academic Affairs subcommittees in Rackham Student Government at the University level.
