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Connor Rees is a PhD Candidate at Swansea University. His work covers the role of content moderation by social media platforms, in the context of extremist content removal (particularly the extreme right). Whilst his research looks at online extremism it expands to Human-Computer Interaction, Ethics, and regulation of Artificial Intelligence within the same remit. He ...

Matti Pohjonen is a media anthropologist who works as a Researcher at the Helsinki Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities (HSSH), at University of Helsinki, where he leads work on the development of digital methods for research. His research focuses on the intersection of digital anthropology, philosophy and data science. This has included, among other ...

Lori Regattieri is a PhD in Communication and Culture (2017-2021) at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Research assistant at Netlab/UFRJ, investigating fairness in artificial intelligence, algorithmic epistemologies and propaganda in the Global South. Digital strategist with more than 12 years of experience, focusing on strategies for civic engagement ...

Arie Perliger is a Professor and the Director of the graduate program in Security Studies at the School of Criminology and Justice Studies, University of Massachusetts Lowell. In the past 20 years, he was engaged in an extensive study of issues related to terrorism and political violence, security policy and politics (including the nexus of ...

Jonathan Pieslak is Professor at The City College of New York and Graduate Center, CUNY where he specializes in the cultural and media dimensions of extremism, particularly audio and music. He is the author of two books, Radicalism & Music (Wesleyan University Press 2015), and Sound Targets: American Soldiers and Music in the Iraq War ...

Mario Peucker is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Industries and Liveable Cities at Victoria University (Melbourne). He is also an executive member of the inter-national research think tank CRIS, the Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies, and a member of the Addressing Violent Extremism and Radicalisation to Terrorism (AVERT) Research Network, ...

Karmvir Padda is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at the University of Waterloo. She holds an MA in Criminology from Simon Fraser University, where she had the privilege of working under the guidance of Dr. Richard Frank. Her research mainly focuses on radicalization, extremists’ use of the internet, right-wing extremism, online foreign interference (disinformation/misinformation), research ...

Samuel Olaniran’s research focuses on digital mis/disinformation and on the different forms of interpreting the appropriation of technology in different contexts. He is interested in how audiences in the Global South interact with global phenomena in unique ways that are distant from global framings. He is also interested in identifying coordinated inauthentic behaviour on social ...

Dr Lella Nouri is an Associate Professor of Criminology and the Co-Director of the University’s Cyber Threats Research Centre (CYTREC). Lella is also a Co-Director of the 7.5m EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Enhanced Human Interactions and Collaborations with Data and Intelligence Driven Systems. Lella’s research specialism is in extremism, terrorist use of the ...

Weeda Mehran, PhD (Cambridge), MSc (Oxford) is a faculty member at the Department of Politics & Co-director of the Centre for Advanced International Studies (CAIS) at the University of Exeter. Dr Mehran has formerly worked at the Global Studies Institute, Georgia State University, McGill University and Dublin City University (as aVox-POL visiting scholar). She has ...