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
Thomas is fascinated by the dark underbelly of the digital society and uses digital and computational analytics to study that.
Current work:
In both teaching and research Thomas focuses on questions regarding the role of digital media and technology in society, culture, and behavior.
"Engineering Truth"
I am currently developing my research project under the heading "Engineering Truth". In this project I am investigating the relationships between emerging digital technologies and scientific disciplines (i.e. AI generated imagery such as deepfakes, blockchain and cryptography, and data science) and society's reality perception.
Topics:
- Digital technology and media
- Terrorism, radicalisation and violent extremism
- Information disorders (misinformation & disinformation)
- Conspiracy theories
- Synthetic media (deepfakes, internet memes)
Methodological Toolbox:
- Quantitative methods
- Network analysis
- Computational and digital methods
- Automated data collection (web scraping)
- Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- Computer vision
R + Python afficionado
