Kevin Marc Blasiak

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Postdoc at TU Wien

Agile information systems development (ISD) is an iterative development methodology, widespread among new product development teams. The agile ISD method is highly responsive to changing requirements, which enables innovation and outputs that meet customer demands. To remain responsive, team members need to continuously obtain new skills and knowle...

We conducted a multidisciplinary literature review on terrorist and violent extremist use of the internet.

Online extremism and radicalization on social media are major concerns of governments, social media companies, and civic organizations worldwide. Online extremist threats are further amplified through conspiracy theories surrounding the current pandemic, increased social isolation, and more time spent online. Evidenced by the recent extremist attac...

Online extremism and radicalisation on social media (SM) are significant concerns of governments, SM companies, and society. The 2021 attack on the US Capitol illustrates the severity of extremism fuelled through SM communications. The literature suggests the removal of extremist messages from SM to limit online extremism. However, scholars argue t...

Scholars studying online extremism and terrorism face major challenges, including finding safe access to hostile environments where members evade law enforcement. Protective measures, such as research ethics, often overlook the safety of investigators. Investigators, including Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) analysts, encounter emotional harm, abu...

Online extremism remains a persistent problem despite the best efforts of governments, tech companies and civil society. Digital technologies can induce group polarization to promote extremism and cause substantial changes to extremism (e.g., create new forms of extremism, types of threats or radicalization approaches). Current methods to counter e...

Tech platforms use recommender algorithms to control society's key resource: attention. With these algorithms they can quietly demote or hide certain content instead of just blocking or deleting it. This opaque practice is called "shadowbanning". While platforms will often deny they engage in shadowbanning, there's plenty of evidence it's well and...

We propose to extend the current binary understanding of terrorism (vs. non-terrorism) with a Dynamic Matrix of Extremisms and Terrorism (DMET). DMET considers the whole ecosystem of content and actors that can contribute to a continuum of extremism (e.g., right-wing, left-wing, religious, separatist, single-issue). It organizes levels of extremism...

We conducted a systematic literature review of Terrorist and Violent Extremist Use of the Internet. In our review, we systematically compared our findings in the literature to the real-world incidence as expressed by Google search statistics. We found that the focus of academic research and the real-world incidence of Cyber-extremism diverge. Since...

Agile information systems development (ISD) is an iterative development methodology, widespread among new product development teams. The agile ISD method is highly responsive to changing requirements, which enables innovation and outputs that meet customer demands. To remain responsive, team members need to continuously obtain new skills and knowle...

The book aims to give an insight into the multifacetedness of changes the Internet–referred to here as the digital world–triggers in both theory and practice of marketing and management. The book has been divided into 5 subject areas, ie management, strategy, communications, brand, and consumer, all of which act as the main themes of subsequent cha...