(2018) Digital Refuge

A team of researchers out of UC Berkeley launched Digital Refuge, an interactive mapping project that presents refugees’ experiences in their own words. Digital Refuge maps and analyzes multiple sources, including more than 6,000 in-person interviews and more than 10,000 social media posts from Facebook, to tell the story of displaced persons caught up in the refugee crisis. Users can compare refugees’ hopes and worries to official reports, explore camp conditions, and see how refugees’ most pressing concerns and unmet needs change during the crisis.