Dear Facebook: please tell us more about your Crisis Response Centre.
Dear Facebook, I’ve got some questions about your latest iteration of safety check, your new Crisis Response Centre (CRC). I …
Author: Nicole Matejic
Nicole is an internationally recognised and trusted authority on navigating national security, crisis and emergency management challenges in an environment of converged threat and risk. Highly regarded for her military information operations (IO and information warfare) and social media acumen, particularly in open source and social intelligence, digital diplomacy and use of communication technologies in radicalisation and emergencies - Nicole is a regular instructor for and speaker to NATO. Nicole is a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Southern Queensland, where she is researching the path to jihad. Her thesis ‘The Jihadi Nudge’ is a multidisciplinary body of work that investigates how terrorist organisations use behavioural economics models of choice architecture (or decision science) to radicalise individuals. Nicole is an Adjunct Lecturer at Charles Sturt University in the School of National Security and Terrorism.
We Don’t Have A Fake News Problem, We Have A Reality Problem
First published with permission on Renegade Inc: If the marriage between technology and the democratisation of information was meant to …
Why Businesses Hold the Key to Stemming the Tide of Radicalization
Mathew Sweeny spoke to Nicole about radicalisation and the Info Ops HQ report into Australian Foreign Fighters in this piece …
PVE answers from the grave: what extremists hope to achieve in life, they fail through death
Core to Islamic extremists beliefs is that Allah approves of jihad; and should a warrior die as a result of …
Ready for a career in social media? Be a great allrounder!
When people ask me how I “got into social media” they’re always surprised to learn that my journey into the …
4 minutes in North Korea
During the Korean Summer of 2014, I boarded an early morning bus at Camp Kim USO in Yongsan, Seoul and …
Red Hands: Syria – the epitome of slacktivism
“That gun is loaded, but it’s not in my hand The fire burns, I’m not the one with the match …
Demystifying the PR Spin Cycle
The Advertising and PR fraternities have a long history of, at times, being highly creative with the truth. From clean …
Faking it for the News
Nicole writes on crisis communications and social media for the Firebrand Talent blog: In what will almost certainly shock to …
Your freedom was never ‘free’ – why Trump’s press ban is an attack on democracy.
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. …