Fostering Internet-based Values of the Environment

Xueyuan Liang

PhD Researcher

I hold Bachelor’s degree and Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture (China). In my past researches, I focused on the spatial assessment of ecosystem services in urban area.

I Joined BIG-5 Project as a Joint PhD student between ICTA-UAB (Spain) and VUB (Belgium). My PhD research will take Weibo, one of the largest Chinese social media platforms, as the case study to explore the construction of a classification system for digital relational values and how digital relational values in urban nature environments are expressed in the virtual community.