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Professor Ramón Spaaij is a sociologist based at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia, and the Utrecht University School of Governance, the Netherlands. Dr Spaaij is a globally recognised expert on terrorists acting alone or in small groups. He is the author of The Age of Lone Wolf Terrorism (Columbia University Press, 2017, with Mark S. ...

Ursula Kristin Schmid is a Doctoral researcher at the Department of Media and Communication, LMU Munich. Her research focuses on digital media effects, specifically on the perception of hate speech and online incivility as well as counter speech. She currently works in a German large-scale research project on online hate speech (KISTRA) that conducts interdisciplinary ...

Debra Smith is a Research Professor at Victoria University. She co-leads the Applied Security Science Partnership (ASSP), comprising academics, Victoria Police, Defence Science Technology (DST), and community groups, working collaboratively to enhance understanding of terrorism and violent extremism. Her research program focuses on behavioural indicators associated with mobilising to violence, the contemporary extreme right in ...

Heidi Schulze is a Doctoral researcher at the Department of Media and Communication, LMU Munich. She currently works in a large-scale research project on (online) radicalization dynamics (MOTRA), that aims at improving our understanding of the complex mechanism and dimensions of (online-)radicalization processes by employing multimethodological, computational approaches. In her PhD thesis, she studies hyper ...

Rose Marie Santini is an Associate Professor at the School of Communication, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil. She is an Associate Researcher and Member of the Academic Information Science Graduate Program, founding member and director of NetLab – Laboratory for Internet and Social Media Research at UFRJ. She is a Brazilian National ...

Débora Salles is a Postdoctoral Researcher at NetLab at the School of Communication of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), acting as a specialist in populist communication logics on social media. Her research focuses on digital media, computational propaganda, social networks and disinformation. She received a CAPES scholarship for her Master’s in Communication ...

Anuradha Sajjanhar is an Assistant Professor/Lecturer in Politics and Public Policy at the University of East Anglia, UK. She works at the intersection of comparative politics, communication, sociology, and public policy. She asks questions about ideology and discourse, processes of policy making, and right-wing mobilisation in the US, UK and India. ...

Nick Robinson is Associate Professor in Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds. His principal interest is in the way in which militarism and extremism emerge and intercede in everyday life through what may be termed ‘everyday extremism’. His ongoing research on extremism and the militarisation of social media and videogames has been ...

As Director of the Media Art Space in the UNC-CH Communication department, Mark Robinson’s extensive technical expertise, developed over 35+ years, encompasses the making and assessment of multi-media particularly those involving computer, Internet technologies, audio, standard and high definition video formats with a technical, artistic and cultural expertise. Robinson demonstrates proficiency in technology as tool ...

Diana Rieger has been a Full Professor at the Department of Media and Communication, LMU Munich, since September 2018. LMU Munich is the leading teaching & research university in Germany, ranking 1st in Germany in the latest Times Higher Education World University Ranking. The Department of Media & Communication (IfKW) is one of the largest ...