Thomas Frissen (T.J.M.M.)

Dr Thomas Frissen is assistant professor at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS), Maastricht University. He is the associate programme director for the Bachelor Digital Society and the educational coordinator of The Plant @ FASoS

Dark, digital, uncanny phenomena

I am fascinated by the dark corners of the digital society and people's minds. I use digital, computational, and quantitative analytics to study interactions between digital technologies and psychology. I love teaching and speaking publicly about (data-driven & evidence-based) scientific insights with a wide variety of audiences, ranging from students, to experts, to expert-students.

Past work

Over the past decade, my primary focus has been in the field of media psychology, with a particular emphasis on exploring the relationship between digital technologies and cognitive and affective processes. Previous works have, for example, concentrated on technology-induced 'hallucinations', roots and expressions of cognitive radicalisation, conspiracy beliefs and affective disorders, affective language use in the context of mediatised murder cases, and online communities of non-suicidal self-injurious behaviour. 

I use a mixed-methodological toolbox, consisting of survey research, digital methods, and computational analytics.