Ico Maly is associate professor @ Tilburg University (The Netherlands) where he teaches Digital Media & Politics, Interaction in digital culture and Discourse analysis & digital media. He is the author of 8 books, has published peer-reviewed papers in top journals like Social Media & Society, Journal of political ideologies, First Monday, European Journal of Culture Studies and Nations and Nationalism. Maly is regularly asked as an expert on the Far-Right and digitalization in Belgian and Dutch media. His latest book 'Metapolitics, algorithms and violence. Far-right activism and terrorism in the attention economy' (Routledge, 2024) brings together 8 years of digital ethnographic research. His current research focuses on digital media and ideology. Maly is editor-in-chief of Diggit Magazine and senior fellow at FRAN (Far-Right Analysis Network).