My work
selected publications
Understanding Online Extremism
M Risius, KM Blasiak
(forthcoming) Essay on Platform Governance Terms - Yale Information Society Project (ISP), 2022
“Social Bots for Peace”: A Dual-Process Perspective to Counter Online Extremist Messaging
KM Blasiak, M Risius, S Matook
International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), 2021
M Risius, KM Blasiak, S Wibisono, R Jabri-Markwell, W Louis
Broadening the GIFCT Hash-Sharing Database Taxonomy: An Assessment and Recommended Next Steps, 2021
Literature Review of Terrorist and Violent Extremist Use of the Internet
W Louis, S Wibisono, KM Blasiak, M Risius
Prepared for the Australian Department of Home Affairs, 2020
Individual Unlearning as Enabler for Innovation in Agile Information Systems Development (Nominated for Best Short Paper)
S Matook, KM Blasiak
European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), 2020
current projects
extremismBot.com Project to develop bot technology to moderate radical content online
More to come...
awards
Canadian Network on Terrorism, Security & Society TSAS PhD Gala Fellow
2022, Ottawa, Canada
selected lectures & presentations
Lecture: The role of social media and other online sources of radicalisation
Australia Awards Bangladesh by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Lectures on Counter-terrorism and countering violent extremism, 2022
Lecture: Using social media to propagate counter-narratives (local and international practice)
Australia Awards Bangladesh by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Lectures on Counter-terrorism and countering violent extremism, 2022
Presentation: Where the gaps are: Over- and under-representation in academic research of violent extremists online by platform and cause
Society for Personality and Social Psychology, SPSP 2021 - Psychology of Extremism Pre-conference, 2021
Tutorial: UML in Enterprise Architect
University of Queensland course: Business Information Systems Analysis & Design, S1 2020, S1 2021
in the media & mentions
What is shadowbanning? How do I know if it has happened to me, and what can I do about it?
Article in The Conversation, 2022
E-Pfandbon: Es geht ohne Papier!
Expert in the German trade journal - Lebensmittel Praxis, 2022
Announcing the recipients of the 2022 Meta PhD Research Fellowship
Finalist in the Human Computer Interaction - Social Media, People, and Society Category, 2022
Terrifying: The Big Tech Overlords Target Right-Wing 'Terrorism'
Our research featured & critiziced in a blog post on pjmedia, 2021
The Social Media Giants Call Me a Violent Extremist. You’re Next.
Our research featured & critiziced in a blog post on pjmedia, 2021
Citizens for Greater Idaho calls out incompetence of compilers of Big Tech anti-extremism database
Our research featured & critiziced in a press release by the Citizens for Greater Idaho Movement, 2021