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Bo Min Keum

Pronouns: she/her
PhD student, International CyberCrime Research Centre
School of Criminology
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Areas of interest

Online subcultures and radicalization; violent extremism; disengagement and intervention program evaluation; machine-learning applications in Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE)

Biography

Bo Min Keum is a PhD student in the International CyberCrime Research Institute and School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University (SFU). She completed her B.A. (Hons.Distinction) in Criminology at SFU and her MPhil in Criminological Research at the University of Cambridge. Her previous work focused on online radicalization patterns. Now, her focus is on evaluating what works to disrupt those patterns. She does so by: engaging in computational methods for distinguishing “Violent” and “Non-Violent” user patterns, conducting a Campbell Systematic Review of radicalization prevention programs, and interviewing formers to identify intervention target points to support those struggling to navigate exit.

Projects

Interventions to Prevent Cognitive and Behavioural Violent Radicalization: A Systematic Review and Multi-Level Meta-Analysis

A Campbell Systematic Review of 19 extremism interventions (spanning 2013-2024) aimed at preventing radicalization, with 118 effect sizes and representing 8,910 participants. Under peer-review by the Campbell Collaboration.

The Dark Crawler: Combating Disinformation Warfare with Artificial Intelligence

Funded by the Defence Sciences Division of Public Works and Government Services Canada, this project involved analyzing disinformation campaigns to establish the 'ground truth' for discerning between real information and disinformation. 2,500 tweets were coded into thematic patterns, which were used to assess the classification accuracy of machine-learning algorithms.

Publications

Publications

The Incel Paradox: Hating Others, While Hating Themselves?

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Peer-reviewed articles

How Does Incel Research Look to a Former Incel?

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Additional information