Overview
Background
Marten Risius is Senior Lecturer in Business Information Systems at the University of Queensland (UQ) in Brisbane, Australia. He graduated in psychology summa cum laude from the University of Osnabrueck, Germany and was the first psychologist to graduate from the House of Finance at the Goethe University Frankfurt, where he received his PhD in Information Systems summa cum laude. Afterwards, he worked as postdoctorate at the University of Mannheim, Germany, where he managed the research alliance "ForDigital" between the University of Mannheim and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Subsequently, he worked as an assistant professor (tenure-track) at Clemson University, SC, USA prior to joining UQ. Marten is also a research fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin, Germany.
His research interests are in the areas of social media and blockchain technologies. He applies business analytics to solve managerial and societal issues (e.g., centralization, echo-chambers, fake news). His articles have been published in several journals (e.g., SMJ, JSIS, JIT, I&M, MISQE, BISE, CAIS) and peer-reviewed conference proceedings (ICIS, ECIS, AMCIS, PACIS).
His dissertation thesis was recognized as the best publication in the entire field of Business Administration from a young researcher in Germany, Austria and Switzerland by the VHB (German Academic Association for Business Research), received the TARGION award for the best practice-oriented research on strategic information management, was honored as the best dissertation from the Frankfurt Chamber of Commcerce, and was a finalist for the Schmalenbach-Award.
He serves as Associate Editor at ICIS, ECIS and WI, as Session Chair at PACIS, and as reviewer for various international journals (e.g., ISR, JAIS, JSIS, ISJ, DSJ, BISE, ISeB, Electronic Markets, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice) and conferences (e.g., ICIS, ECIS, HICSS, AMCIS, PACIS, WI, MKWI). In his free time he serves as member of the young jury for the DVPT Start-Up Future Awards.
Availability
- Dr Marten Risius is:
- Available for supervision
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, unknown
Research interests
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Social Media - Managerial and Societal Issues
Identify and evaluate individual and organizational social media management strategies, advance social media analytics, and address topics such as echo chambers and fake news.
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Blockchain - Managerial and Societal Issues
Identify blockchain use-cases, ICO types, and blockchain affordances as well as the role of cryptocurrencies and centralization tendencies in blockchain technologies.
Research impacts
His work has been covered by public media sites such as The Boston Globe and is frequently featured on his blockchain channel at China Finance Online.
Works
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2024
Conference Publication
Hate speech detection with generalizable target-aware fairness
Chen, Tong, Wang, Danny, Liang, Xurong, Risius, Marten, Demartini, Gianluca and Yin, Hongzhi (2024). Hate speech detection with generalizable target-aware fairness. KDD '24: 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Barcelona, Spain, 25-29 August 2024. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3637528.3671821
2024
Book Chapter
Blockchain technology and strategic leadership
Risius, Marten and Benedict, Gayan (2024). Blockchain technology and strategic leadership. Handbook of Research on Strategic Leadership in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. (pp. 167-195) Edward Elgar Publishing. doi: 10.4337/9781802208818.00014
2024
Conference Publication
Navigating Implicit Hate Speech - A Scoping Review
Xie, Hetiao (Slim), Namvar, Morteza, Risius, Marten and Akhlaghpour, Saeed (2024). Navigating Implicit Hate Speech - A Scoping Review. European Conference on Information Systems, Paphos, Cyprus, 13-19 June 2024. Atlanta, GA United States: Association for Information Systems.
2024
Other Outputs
Terrorist content lurks all over the internet – regulating only 6 major platforms won’t be nearly enough
Risius, Marten and Karanasios, Stan (2024, 03 20). Terrorist content lurks all over the internet – regulating only 6 major platforms won’t be nearly enough The Conversation
2024
Other Outputs
Algorithms are pushing AI-generated falsehoods at an alarming rate. How do we stop this?
Karanasios, Stan and Risius, Marten (2024, 02 29). Algorithms are pushing AI-generated falsehoods at an alarming rate. How do we stop this? The Conversation
2024
Journal Article
Redefining the Customer Service Relationship Through Blockchain
French, Aaron M. and Risius, Marten (2024). Redefining the Customer Service Relationship Through Blockchain. International Journal of Electronic Commerce, 28 (1), 1-21. doi: 10.1080/10864415.2023.2295071
2024
Journal Article
"Trigger Warning: This Study Contains Extremist Content." Research Strategies for Investigations of Online Extremism and Terrorism
Blasiak, Kevin M., Risius, Marten and Matook, Sabine (2024). "Trigger Warning: This Study Contains Extremist Content." Research Strategies for Investigations of Online Extremism and Terrorism. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 55 (1), 257-278. doi: 10.17705/1cais.05510
2024
Conference Publication
EVM-Vale: formal verification of EVM bytecode using vale
Cumming, Daniel, Utting, Mark, Cassez, Franck, Dong, Naipeng, Bayat Tork, Sadra and Risius, Marten (2024). EVM-Vale: formal verification of EVM bytecode using vale. 7th International Symposium, SDLT 2023, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 30 November - 1 December 2023. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-97-0006-6_3
2023
Conference Publication
A Review of Hate Speech Detection: Challenges and Innovations
Xie, Hetiao (Slim), Namvar, Morteza and Risius, Marten (2023). A Review of Hate Speech Detection: Challenges and Innovations. Digit 2023, Hyderabad, India, December 10, 2023. Atlanta, GA United States: Association for Information Systems.
2023
Journal Article
The digital augmentation of extremism: reviewing and guiding online extremism research from a sociotechnical perspective
Risius, Marten, Blasiak, Kevin M., Wibisono, Susilo and Louis, Winnifred R. (2023). The digital augmentation of extremism: reviewing and guiding online extremism research from a sociotechnical perspective. Information Systems Journal, 34 (3), 931-963. doi: 10.1111/isj.12454
2023
Journal Article
On the performance of blockchain-based token offerings
Risius, Marten, Breidbach, Christoph F., Chanson, Mathieu, von Krannichfeldt, Ruben and Wortmann, Felix (2023). On the performance of blockchain-based token offerings. Electronic Markets, 33 (1) 32, 1-19. doi: 10.1007/s12525-023-00652-5
2023
Other Outputs
Digital Service Transformation: Pathways to human and economic wellbeing: White paper
Andreassen, Tor W., Archibald, Gordon, Beekhuyzen, Jenine, Bongiovanni, Ivano, Brea, Edgar, Breidbach, Christoph, Burchill, Keith, Burgers, Henri, Cao, Selina, Coote, Len, Coram, Brendan, Cunningham, Claire, Feast, George, Field, Mitch, Ford, Jerad, Fouche, Leon, Gain, Alexandria, Gooding, Glen, Goyeneche Ramirez, David, Green, Teegan, Gschwind, Daniel, Hall, Thomas, Hartley, Nicole, Heinz, Daniel, Hine, Damian, Indulska, Marta, Kapernick, Brett, Kastelle, Tim, Ko, Ryan ... Zhang, Wenlu (2023). Digital Service Transformation: Pathways to human and economic wellbeing: White paper. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/aed4918
2023
Conference Publication
Understanding the current state of knowledge and future directions of doxing research: a social cognitive theory perspective
Fang, Yuan, Risius, Marten and Cheung, Christy M.K. (2023). Understanding the current state of knowledge and future directions of doxing research: a social cognitive theory perspective. 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2023), Maui, HI, United States, 3-5 January 2023. Honolulu, HI, United States: University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. doi: 10.24251/hicss.2023.672
2023
Conference Publication
Introduction to adversarial coordination in collaboration and social media systems minitrack of the collaboration systems and technologies track
Cheung, Christy M.K., Risius, Marten, Lee, Matthew K.O. and Wagner, Christian (2023). Introduction to adversarial coordination in collaboration and social media systems minitrack of the collaboration systems and technologies track. 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2023), Maui, HI, United States, 3-5 January 2023. Honolulu, HI, United States: University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
2022
Conference Publication
Verification of EVM Bytecode with Vale
Cumming, Daniel Keith, Utting, Mark, Dong, Naipeng, Cassez, Frank, Tork, S. B. and Risius, Marten (2022). Verification of EVM Bytecode with Vale. 6th Symposium on Distributed Ledger Technology 2022 (SDLT 2022), Gold Coast, QLD Australia, 22 November 2022.
2022
Other Outputs
What is shadowbanning? How do I know if it has happened to me, and what can I do about it?
Risius, Marten and Blasiak, Kevin Marc (2022, 11 03). What is shadowbanning? How do I know if it has happened to me, and what can I do about it? The Conversation
2022
Book Chapter
The Affordances of Blockchain Platforms: Why Service Providers Use Blockchains
Spohrer, Kai and Risius, Marten (2022). The Affordances of Blockchain Platforms: Why Service Providers Use Blockchains. Digitalization Across Organizational Levels: New Frontiers for Information Systems Research. (pp. 181-208) Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-06543-9_8
2022
Journal Article
Values and ethics in information systems: a state-of-the-art analysis and avenues for future research
Spiekermann, Sarah, Krasnova, Hanna, Hinz, Oliver, Baumann, Annika, Benlian, Alexander, Gimpel, Henner, Heimbach, Irina, Köster, Antonia, Maedche, Alexander, Niehaves, Björn, Risius, Marten and Trenz, Manuel (2022). Values and ethics in information systems: a state-of-the-art analysis and avenues for future research. Business and Information Systems Engineering, 64 (2), 247-264. doi: 10.1007/s12599-021-00734-8
2022
Conference Publication
Introduction to the minitrack on adversarial coordination in collaboration and social media systems
Cheung, Christy, Lee, Matthew, Wagner, Christian and Risius, Marten (2022). Introduction to the minitrack on adversarial coordination in collaboration and social media systems. 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2022), Maui, HI United States, 3-5 January 2023. Honolulu, HI United States: University of Hawaiʻi. doi: 10.24251/HICSS.2022.013
2021
Conference Publication
How fact-checking affects news engagement on social media platforms: a multi-method study
Guohou, Guohou, Wattal, Sunil, Risius, Marten and Thatcher, Jason (2021). How fact-checking affects news engagement on social media platforms: a multi-method study. Workshop on Information Systems Economics (WISE 2021), Austin, TX United States, 16-17 December 2021.
Funding
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Supervision
Availability
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Bystanders' Perceptions and Reporting Intentions in Doxing Cases: The Influence of Online Social Dynamics
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Bikesh Raj Upreti, Professor Andrew Burton-Jones
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Master Philosophy
Text Analysis of Immigration Tweets in Australia Using Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Saeed Akhlaghpour, Dr Morteza Namvar
Completed supervision
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2024
Doctor Philosophy
Countering Extremism on Social Media: An exploratory sequential mixed method study of online extremism counter measures
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Sabine Matook
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