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



Dynamic Matrix of Extremisms and Terrorism (DMET): A Continuum Approach Towards Identifying Different Degrees of Extremisms

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