Marten Risius

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. 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. 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.

[2026] Bridging the age gap: do privacy literacy, self-efficacy, and concerns explain the effects of age on privacy decisions?. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 33 (3) 3803008, 1-33. doi: 10.1145/3803008 [2026] The Differential Impact of AI Versus Human Fact-Checkers On News Believability. MIS Quarterly, 1-22. doi: 10.25300/misq/2026/17910 [2026] "Can You Tell Me?": Designing Copilots to Support Human Judgement in Online Information Seeking. New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3786304.3787866 [2026] Seek and You Shall Find: Design & Evaluation of a Context-Aware Interactive Search Companion. New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3786304.3787914 [2026] Introduction to the Minitrack on Bridging Minds and Machines: Human and Computer Collaboration for Creative Problem Solving a