Publications (Thematic)

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Publications include a mix of peer reviewed journal and conference articles, reports, articles published in the press, and media articles where I have been interviewed.

Online Hate, Antisemitism and Web 2.0

Key terms: Internet, Public Diplomacy, Information Systems, IT and Society

There is also a separate list of presentations related to online public diplomacy and monitoring and combating online hate. These presentations are not available for download.

Things I’ve written

Andre Oboler, “After the Charlie Hebdo Attack: The Line between Freedom of Expression and Hate Speech” in Mikael Shainkman (Ed) Antisemitisms Today and Tomorrow: Global Perspectives on the Many Faces or Contemporary Antisemitism (Academic Studies Press, 2018).
Oboler, A. and Connelly, K. 2018. “Building SMARTER Communities of Resistance and Solidarity“. Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: an Interdisciplinary JournalCosmopolitan Civil Societies: an Interdisciplinary Journal, 10(2), 91-110.
Andre Oboler, “Solving antisemitic hate speech in social media through a global approach to local action“, An End to Anti-Semitism!, Vienna, Feb 18 – 22, 2018.
Jakubowicz, Dunn, Mason, Paradies, Bliuc, Bahfen, Oboler, Atie and Connelly, Cyber Racism and Community Resilience (Palgrave, 2017)
Andre Oboler, “Zionism through the Internet’s looking glass” in From Antisemitism to Anti-Zionism: The Past & Present of a Lethal Ideology (Academic Studies Press, 2017).
Andre Oboler, “The normalisation of Islamophobia through social media: Facebook” in Islamophobia in Cyberspace: Hate Crimes Go Viral, Ashgate 2015. (Forthcoming)
Andre Oboler, “Measuring the Hate: The State of Antisemitism in Social Media“, Online Hate Prevention Institute, Prepared for the Global Forum to Combat Antisemitism, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State of Israel, 2016.
Andre Oboler, “After the Charlie Hebdo Attack: The Line between Freedom of Expression and Hate Speech“, Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry, 6 July 2015 (at the Kantor Center)
Andre Oboler and OHPI Staff, How to Combat Online Antisemitism (eBook), Online Hate Prevention Institute, 1 July 2015.
Andre Oboler, Je Suis Humain: Responsible free speech in the shadow of the Charlie Hebdo murders, Online Hate Prevention Institute 2015
Andre Oboler and Karen Connelly, Hate Speech: a Quality of Service Challenge, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on e-Learning, e-Services and e-Management, Melbourne, 10-12 December 2014. Pages 117 – 121. IEEE Xplore.
Andre Oboler, How Facebook Responded to Anti-Muslim Hate, Online Hate Prevention Institute, December 8, 2014
Andre Oboler, Legal Doctrines Applied to Online Hate Speech, Computers & Law, Number 87, pp 9—15, July 2014.
Andre Oboler, The Antisemitic Meme of the Jew, Online Hate Prevention Institute, 2014
Andre Oboler, “Freedom of Speech and Hate Speech in Australia“, Jerusalem Post Blogs, 18 December 2013
Andre Oboler, Islamophobia on the Internet: The growth of online hate targeting Muslims, Online Hate Prevention Institute, 2013
Andre Oboler, “Tackling antisemitism on Facebook.” Journal for the Study of Antisemitism 5.1 (June, 2013) p. 295
Andre Oboler and David Matas (eds), “Online Antisemitism: A systematic review“, Report of the Online Antisemitism Working Group of the Global Forum to Combat Antisemitism, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State of Israel, 30 May 2013.
Andre Oboler, Attacking the ANZACs on Facebook, Online Hate Prevention Institute, 2013
Andre Oboler, ‘Branding Facebook: Power and Impact‘, Cutting Edge News, March 25 2013
Andre Oboler, ‘Facebook’s blind spot to Antisemitism‘, Jerusalem Post Blogs, 25 March 2013
Andre Oboler, ‘If you can’t Recognize Hate Speech, the sunlight can’t penetrate‘, The Louis D. Brandeis Center Blog, March 22 2013
Andre Oboler, Recognizing Hate Speech: Antisemitism on Facebook (Online Hate Prevention Institute, 2013)
Andre Oboler, ‘Facebook will kill democracy’, Jerusalem Post Blogs, 22 November 2012
Andre Oboler, ‘The 11th International Seminar on Antisemitism‘, ROI Blog, 21 November 2012
Andre Oboler, ‘The Hitler Shield: Mocking the Dead at Facebook‘, Jerusalem Post Blogs, 22 October 2012
Andre Oboler, Aboriginal Memes and Online Hate (Online Hate Prevention Institute, October 2012)
Andre Oboler, ‘Ahmadinejad and Assange: why Julian Assange should be Ecuador’s next UN Ambassador‘, Jerusalem Post Blogs, 28 September 2012
Andre Oboler, ‘Facebook sanctions antisemitic content‘, Jerusalem Post Blogs, 10 September 2012
Andre Oboler, Kristopher Welsh, Lito Cruz, The danger of big data: Social media as computational social science, First Monday, Volume 17, Number 7 – 2 July 2012
Andre Oboler, Sweden questions its Jewish problem on twitter, Jerusalem Post Blogs, June 13 2012
Andre Oboler, What Market Forces mean for Facebook, Jerusalem Post Blogs, May 24 2012
Andre Oboler and David Matas, ‘President Peres in the Lion’s Den’, The Jerusalem Post, 6 March 2012, page 14
Andre Oboler, ‘Virtual hate poses “real world” threat’, The Australian Jewish News, 10 February 2012, page 3
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Andre Oboler, Today’s Social Media Campaigns, Jerusalem Post Blogs, 28 August 2011
Andre Oboler, Facebook’s Race and Online Hate, Jerusalem Post, 17 August 2011
Andre Oboler, Online public diplomacy: When September comes (Part 2), Jerusalem Post Blog, July 31 2011
Andre Oboler, Online public diplomacy: When September comes (Part 1), Jerusalem Post Blogs, 25 July 2011
Andre Oboler, ‘A loss to our understanding of anti-Semitism’, The Jerusalem Post, June 09 2011
Andre Oboler, A legal model for government intervention to combat online hate, Internet Law Bulletin 14(2), May 2011
Andre Oboler, Have We Lost That Caring Feeling?, The Australian Jewish News, 22 April 2011
Andre Oboler, We need a revolution, Jerusalem Post Blogs, 11 April 2011
Andre Oboler, Facebook and the Third Intifada: The Aftermath, March 30, 2011
Andre Oboler, The ICCA tackles online hate, (2011) 13 (9&10) Internet Law Bulletin
Andre Oboler, Wikileaks: Assange’s address to Australia, Jerusalem Post Blog, Feb 6 2011.
Andre Oboler, Egypt’s Internet Blackout, The Cutting Edge, 30 January 2011
Andre Oboler, Palestinian Media Watch Still Gamed By YouTube, Backspin Blog (Honest Reporting), 20 December 2010
Andre Oboler, YouTube gets it wrong on online hate, The Jerusalem Post, 20 December 2010 p15, (online 19th December 2010)
Andre Oboler, Time to Regulate Internet Hate with a New Approach? (2010) 13(6) Internet Law Bulletin
Andre Oboler, SCAM ALERT (Facebook virus): This poor girl committed suicide, Community Internet Engagement Project, October 1 2010
Andre Oboler, “Online Antisemitism 2.0 and Social Acceptability” in Eunice Pollack (Ed), Antisemitism on the Campus: Past & Present, Academic Studies Press, 2010. (Scanned).
Andre Oboler, Government a welcome presence in cyber regulation, The Australian Jewish News, 7 May 2010, p 23
Andre Oboler, New media need a new approach to anti-Semitism, Jerusalem Post, 28 April 2010, p 15
Andre Oboler, Remarks to the Italian Parliament, Hearing into Online Antisemitism, 22 April 2010, Rome, Italy
Andre Oboler, Possibility of policing the internet?, The Australian Jewish News, March 12 2010, p10
Andre Oboler, Gerald Steinberg and Rephael Stern, The Framing of Political NGOs in Wikipedia through Criticism Elimination, Journal of Information Technology and Politics, 7(4), 2010 (pre-publication draft)
Andre Oboler, Under attack in a virtual world, PresenTense Magazine, Febuary 2010.
Andre Oboler, The iFascists, Blog Central at the Jerusalem Post, 2 February 2010
Andre Oboler and David Matas (Eds), Report from the Working Group on Online Antisemitism, the Global Forum to Combat Antisemitism, Jerusalem, December 2009.
Andre Oboler, Recognising hate and the right to freedom from persecution, Harry’s Place, September 3rd 2009.
Andre Oboler, The Rise and Fall of a Facebook Hate Group, Covenant – Global Jewish Magazine, Volume 3, Issue 1 (August 2009), Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya. NB: This is an updated version of the First Monday article.
Andre Oboler, Holocaust Denial: Yes Facebook, it is Hate Speech, Z-Word Blog, 27 August 2009
Andre Oboler, Facebook, Holocaust Denial, and Anti-Semitism 2.0, Post-Holocaust and Anti-Semitism Series, No. 86, The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, 15 September 2009.
Andre Oboler, Facebook gives hatred a hand, The Guardian: Comment Is Free, 13 July 2009
Andre Oboler, The rise and fall of a Facebook hate group, First Monday, Volume 13, Number 11 – 3 November 2008
Andre Oboler, Online Antisemitism 2.0. “Social Antisemitism on the Social Web”, Post-Holocaust and Antisemitism Series, JCPA, (April 2008, No. 67)
Andre Oboler & Honest Reporting Staff, Exposed – Anti-Israeli Subversion on Wikipedia, COMMUNIQUE: 14 May 2008
Andre Oboler, Google Earth: A New Platform for Anti-Israel Propaganda and Replacement Geography, Jerusalem Issue Briefs, Vol. 8, No. 5, JCPA, 26 June 2008
Andre Oboler, Hatred and Antisemitism Online, Agencia Judia Noticias (Jewish News Agency – Argentina), Sept 4 2008 (In Spanish and English at ZOTW)
Andre Oboler, Wiki-Warfare: Battle for the on-line encyclopedia, Jerusalem Post, May. 13, 2008
Andre Oboler, Let’s not give away all our secrets on the Web, Jerusalem Post, April 24th 2008
Andre Oboler, A false prospectus on campus, The Guardian: Comment Is Free, Feb 15 2008
Andre Oboler, Facing up to the ‘Facebook’ dilemma, Jerusalem Post, Feb 5 2008
Kfir Damari and Andre Oboler, The return of SIMBAR: Cyber-terrorism methodology, beSIRT, 2006
Andre Oboler, The New Antisemitism, Diverse: The newspaper of the Lancaster District Diversity Festival. Issue 2, Page 23, November 2004.
Andre Oboler, The Start of future Festivals, Diverse: The newspaper of the Lancaster District Diversity Festival. Issue 2, Page 23, November 2004.

Interviews and press mentions

SBS News, SBS, broadcast 6 April 2017. Print article: Matt Connellan, “Germany holds social media companies to account for hate speech”, SBS News, 6 April 2017.
Josh Butler, “It’s Actually Illegal To Be Racist On The Internet”, Huffington Post, 22 September 2016
Hack on Triple J with Tom Tilley, September 15 2016
James Dowling, “Right-wing extremist terror fears: Authorities concerned groups spurred by online propaganda”, The Herald Sun, July 22, 2016
Rachel Olding, “Online abuse: ‘It’s so common it’s almost banal‘”, The Sydney Morning Herald & The Age, 25 Jun. 2016
Paul Toohey, “Mind wars: The extremists taking Australia to dark places”, The Daily Telegraph, 19 June 2016
Mike Wendling, “2015: The year that angry won the internet”, BBC News, 20 December 2015
The Project, Channel 10, broadcast on January 19 2015.
Background Briefing, ABC Radio National, November 24. Related article: Christine El-Khoury, “Anti-Muslim extremists: how far will they go?”, ABC News, 24 November 2014.
ABC Local Radio, 91.7FM ABC Gold Coast, 16 September 2014. Print article: Damien Larkins and staff, “Abusive anti-mosque Facebook page taken down”, ABC Local, 16 September 2014
J-Wire Staff, “New Freedom Commissioner“, J-Wire, 19 December 2013
Manfred Gerstenfeld, “I social media contro ebrei e Israele“, Informazione Corretta, 26 June 2013 (in Italian) (English Title: “Social Media Against the Jews and Israel”).
Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission, Reporting Racism, State of Victoria, 2013. (See Chapter 4)
Tal Frost, “Anti-Semitism in information era“, Ynet News, April 8 2013
Elinor Fuks, “Righteous network: Bloggers fight antisemitism“, Mako, April 7 2013 (in Hebrew)
Eric Bender, “Steady Increase in Networks promoting Antisemitism“, Maariv, April 3 2013 (in Hebrew)
Andre Oboler on ‘Take Action News with David Shuster‘ broadcast on We Act Radio (USA), March 23, 2013
“Antisemitism on Facebook investigated“, israel-palestijnen News Blog, March 22 2013 (in Dutch)
“Crece la preocupación por los mensajes antisemitas en la red social Facebook “, Jewish News Agency (Argentina ), March 22 2013 (NB: in Spanish) | Also at Iton Gadol.
“Anti-Semitism and Anti-Israelism“, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, March 21 2013
‘Facebook’s Anti-Semitism Problem‘, Galus Australis, 21 March 2013
David Werdiger, “The Hate Network“, The Times of Israel, March 21 2013
“Hate on Facebook“, J-wire, March 21 2013
Sarah Brown, “New report from OHPI on hate speech and social media“, Engage, 21 March 2013
Elders of Ziyon, “Major report released on antisemitism in Facebook“, March 21 2013
Israel Matzav, “Major report into racism on Facebook“, March 20 2013
‘The social media is the message’, The Australian Jewish News, November 30 2012
Andy Park, Racial abuse caught on smartphone, SBS World News Australia, 20 November 2012
‘Poland fights against xenophobia‘, Radio Poland, 19 October 2012 (in Hebrew)
SBS Staff, “‘Trolling laws’ inadequate, lawyer says“, SBS News, 16 October 2012
Timna Jacks, ‘Facebook Forced to Pull Hate Page’, The Australian Jewish News, 21 September 2012, page 4
Lori Lowenthal Marcus, Charge: Facebook Pages Spew Blood Libels, Attack Jews and Aborigines, Mock Anne Frank, The Jewish Press, 11 September 2012
They claim that cyberterrorism is “a real threat to the world”, Agencia Judía de Noticias, 1 September 2011
Andy Park, ‘Racism laws fail in the world wild web‘, SBS News, 17 AUG 2012
‘YouTube es “demasiado lento” en tomar acciones contra los videos de odio‘, Jewish News Agency (Argentina), 15 August 2012 (Spanish)
Rachel Hirshfeld, “YouTube ‘Too Slow’ Taking Action Against Hate Videos“, Arutz Sheva, 14 August 2012
Peter Kohn, “YouTube ‘too slow’ on hate videos”, Australian Jewish News, 14 August 2012
Chantal Abitbol, The Fight against online hate, Australian Jewish News, 22 July 2011
Lawrence Rifkin, The (Sometimes) Antisocial Network, Jerusalem Report, May 9 2011
Sharon Udasin, Web searching gets personal for Israeli teen, The Jerusalem Post, 28 March 2011
Hillel Fendel, Mini-Grants to Create “Ripples of Change” in Jewish Life, Arutz Sheva, 23 March 2011
Patrick Morgan, Google Street View Runs Into Controversies in Switzerland and Israel, Discover Magazine, February 24th, 2011
Raffaella Gargiulo, Israele, Street View attenta alla sicurezza?, PuntoInformatico, 23 Feb 2011 (in Italian with English Translation)
Jessica Guynn, Some in Israel warn against Google Street View, Los Angeles Times, February 22, 2011
Alison Diana, Google Street View Entering Israel, Despite Security Concerns, InformationWeek, February 22, 2011
Irina Sternik, Homofobia, racismo y antisemitismo en Facebook, Diario Z (Argentina), 19 May 2010
Irina Sternik, Interview with Andre Oboler, Diario Z (Argentina), 19 May 2010
Peter Kohn, Clicking to Fight Against Online Hate, The Australian Jewish News, 7 May 2010, p 3
Alex Margolin, Anti-Semitism and the New Mainstream Media, Honest Reporting, May 2 2010
Peter Kohn, Taking a Stand Against Web Hate, The Australian Jewish News, 30 April 2010, p 3
Boom dell’antisemitismo on line, Rai News 24, 24 April 2010
Stefano Ziantoni, with guests Fiamma Nirenstein (Vice-President of the Italian Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee), Stefano Gatti (Italian NGO monitoring antisemitism) and Andre Oboler. RAI Uno (Italy’s TV 1), 23 April 2010. (See my report on the show)
POL – Antisemitismo, Nirenstein: Capire diffusione fenomeno su internet, Il Velino, April 21, 2010 (In Italian)
Charles Fenynesi, Quote of the Week: The need to limit hatred’s spread, Bigotry Monitor, 10(5), Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union, Feb 5 2010
Jennifer Hanin, A Salute to Standouts Combating Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism, Jennifer’s Blog, 14th of January 2010
Avraham Zuroff, Antisemitism: Internet is newest medium, global forum told, The Jewish Tribune (Canada), Wednesday, 13 January 2010
Yoni Kempinski, Online Anti-Semitism – “Imagine if Hitler had Facebook”, Israel National News, December 17, 2009. (includes video interview)
Caitlyn Martin, Report: Facebook A Haven For Hate Groups, O’Reilly, September 17, 2009
Brian Cuban and Andre Oboler, Dr Andre Oboler PhD Discusses Hate Speech On Facebook, The Revolution Rant at The Cuban Revolution, [Internet broadcast], 1 Sept 2009
Elan Miller, ‘Facebook doesn’t bar hateful content against Jews’, Jerusalem Post, 27 August 2009
Chantal Abitbol, Facebook refuses to ban all Holocaust-denial groups, The Australian Jewish News, 15 May 2009, pg 8
Sharon Udasin, Photo Editing Israel’s Online Image, The Jewish Week, March 4th 2009
Lucy Tobin, Israel’s cyber warriors, The Jewish Chronicle, Feb 12, 2009.
10 Questions for Dr Andre Oboler: Expert on online anti-Semitism, The Australian Jewish News, October 31 2008, Life pg 16
Sharon Berger, Expert Warns on Internet antisemitism, The Australian Jewish News, October 31 2008, pg 4
Christoph Gunkel, Facebook und Google Earth: Antisemitismus im Web 2.0, F.A.Z., October 14 2008 (in German).
English translation: Facebook and Google Earth: Anti-Semitism in Web 2.0 now available.
Sharon Udasin, Google Maps Gets Specific – On Israel, The Jewish Week, 12 Oct 2008
Caitlyn Martin, Google Earth Delivers Geographic Data, Satellite Imagery, and Political Bias, O’Reilly News, August 29, 2008
ZOA Praises Google For Removing False Anti-Israel Propaganda From Google Earth’s Map Of Israel, Jewish News Today, August 25, 2008 (published press release)
Stephanie Rubenstein, Jewish Internet Defense Force ‘seizes control’ of anti-Israel Facebook group, Jerusalem Post, Jul. 29, 2008
En Israel siguen las denuncias contra el programa Google Earth y su mencion sobre “la catastrofe palestina”, Agencia Judia Noticias (Jewish News Agency – Argentina), July 31 2008
ZOA Middle East report, [Radio Interview],WNWR – New World Radio, Philadelphia, July 9th 2008
Stephanie Rubenstein, Google Earth highlights the ‘Nakba’, Jerusalem Post, July 2nd 2008
Cnaan Liphshiz, Getting Google to work for us, Haaretz, June 27, 2008
Ziv Hellman, http :// Web of Hatred, Jerusalem Report, Jun. 18, 2008
Talk @ 10, [Radio Interview], Ram FM, West Bank & Israel, May 19 2008
Tamar Snyder, Latest Front In Mideast Wars: Wikipedia, The Jewish Week, May 14 2008
Dana Gloger, Facebook groups at war over Israel, The Jewish Chronicle, March 13 2008
Tamar Snyder, Anti-Semitism 2.0 Going Largely Unchallenged, The Jewish Week, 20 February 2008

Research citing the above items

Byard Duncan, Facebook: No Pot Leaves Allowed – But Racism and Sexism Are Fine, Alternet, September 1, 2010
Michael Danby MP, Online antisemitism Crikey et al, J-Wire, June 11, 2009
Jessie Daniels, U.N. Anti-racism conference April 22 2009
Deborah Stone, To hate, click here: antisemitism on the internet, Anti Defamation Commission, Special Report No. 38, August 2008
Jessie Daniels, Racism and Antisemitism 2.0 Allowed in the U.S. Mar 29th, 2008

Jewish and Middle East

Andre Oboler, ‘#OpIsrael Backfires‘, Jerusalem Post Blogs, 7 April 2013
Andre Oboler, ‘Hackers will target Israel again on April 7‘, Jerusalem Post Blogs, 2 April 2013
Andre Oboler, ‘Reclaiming Israel’s left‘, Jerusalem Post Blogs, 1 January 2013
Andre Oboler, ‘Making it Possible, Rather than Trying to Make it Happen‘, Galus Australis, 30 August 2012
Andre Oboler, ‘Impersonating Anonymous: Is it state sponsored terrorism?’,Jerusalem Post, 12 February 2012. Republished by Honest Reportingand The Cutting Edge News.
Andre Oboler, Moderne Zionisme og Gilad Shalit, 64(3) Magbit-Nyt, December 2011. (Magazine of the Danish Zionist Federation). English draft.
Andre Oboler, Gilad Shalit is coming home – and the news is going viral, Jerusalem Post Blogs, October 11 2011
Andre Oboler, Cyber Attacks: you might be at risk, Jerusalem Post Blogs, September 14 2011
Andre Oboler, The online campaign to recognise Palestine, Jerusalem Post, September 02, 2011
Andre Oboler, ‘The Schustermans: Making Change in the World Possible’, eJewish Philanthropy, 19 June 2011
Andre Oboler, ‘An innovation experience: The ROI Summit’, Jerusalem Post Blogs, 19 June 2011
Andre Oboler, ‘Where are the 67 borders?’, Jerusalem Post Blogs, 12 June 2011
Andre Oboler, ‘Street View considerations highlight Israel’s hyperdemocracy’, Jerusalem Post Blogs, 11 March 2011
Andre Oboler, In Israel Google Street View needs serious thought, Jerusalem Post Blogs, Feb 20, 2011
Yahoo’s Foreign Policy, Community Internet Engagement Project, June 10 2010
Andre Oboler, A more balanced approach, published online with a link from VAFT News (Volume 31, No 3, Victorian Association of Family Therapists), September 2009.
Andre Oboler, When an MK’s Palestinian narrative drops for a moment, Jerusalem Post, June 2nd, 2009 (at ZOTW)
Andre Oboler, El sucesor de Olmert tendra serias dificultades para formar gobierno, coinciden politologos de Israel, Agencia Judia Noticias (Jewish News Agency – Argentina), July 31 2008
Andre Oboler, Good Reporting Is Truly a Pearl of Great Price, The Wall Street Journal, February 7, 2008. Page A17.
Andre Oboler, Blunt words hurt the Holy Land, The Times (UK), December 24, 2007
Andre Oboler, Gaza: NGO’s, the Times, the World Bank, and the facts, Israpundit, December 20, 2007

Interviews and press citations

Timna Jacks, ‘Investing in the community’s future‘, The Australian Jewish News, September 4th 2012
David E. Miller / The Media Line, Assad gets the picture as satire comes to YouTube, Jerusalem Post, September 6 2011
Sharon Udasin, Vying for control of the Temple Mount – on Foursquare, The Jerusalem Post, December 16th 2010
Elli Wohlgelernter (reporter) ROI 2010 report (featuring an interview with Andre Oboler), broadcast on IBA News (Israel Broadcausting Authority), July 11 2010
Sharon Udasin, Yahoo Maps Reunite Jerusalem, The Jewish Week, June 15th 2010
Honest Reporting, Yahoo Divides Jerusalem, COMMUNIQUE: 10 June 2010
Sharon Udasin, The Gaza Flotilla Battle – On Twitter , The Jewish Week, June 2nd 2010
Sharon Udasin, Israel Versus iPad, The Jewish Week, April 20th 2010
Sharon Udasin, Let My People … Tweet , The Jewish Week, March 24th 2010
Dalia Sable, ZFA’s innovative internet initiative, The Australian Jewish News, 18 December 2009, p 11
Steve Lipman, ‘If You Stream It, They Will Come’, The Jewish Week, 15 September 2009
Sharon Udasin, WEB EXCLUSIVE: Tweeting For Shalit, The Jewish Week, 25 August 2009
Bernard Josephs, US unions condemn boycott resolutions, The Jewish Chronicle, 16 August, 2007

Software Engineering and Process Improvement

Key terms: Process Improvement, Software Development Life Cycle, Knowledge Management, Design Patterns, Empirical Software Engineering, Education

Design Patterns & SDLC models

Andre Oboler, Charles Twardy and David Albrecht, Super Iterator: A design pattern for Algorithm and Data structure collections, in proceedings of Fourth International Conference on Information Technology : New Generations (ITNG 2007), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, April 2-4, 2007
Andre Oboler, David McG. Squire and Kevin B. Korb, Software Engineering for Computer Science Research – Facilitating Improved Research Outcomes, International Journal of Computer and Information Science, 5, 1, pp. 24-34, January 2004.
Andre Oboler, The KEBN Process: A new approach to Knowledge Engineering with Bayesian Nets, School of CSSE, Monash University, 2002

Process Improvement & Empirical Software Engineering

Andre Oboler, Software Engineering for the Research Environment (SERE): a process of improving Process Improvement Processes in academic research, PhD Thesis, Computing Department, Lancaster University, 2007.
Andre Oboler, Enhancing Research: A Strategic Approach, poster for Emerging landscapes: Research into quality management in higher education’ conference, Birmingham, 27 June 2007.
Andre Oboler, Simon Lock, Ian Sommerville, “Targetted Improvements,” in proceedings of the second International Conference on Software Engineering Advances (ICSEA 2007), Cap Esterel, France, 25-31 Aug. 2007, IEEE Press, 2007.
Andre Oboler (2003). Examining the use of Software Engineering by Computer Science Researchers. In Proceedings of Education Students’ Third Regional Research Conference, Graduate School in Humanities University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa. pp. 37-45, 26-27 September 2003.
You can also download the presentation slides
Andre Oboler (2002). USE CSR. School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash University. B. Computer Science (Honours) Thesis.
Andre Oboler, David McG. Squire and Kevin B. Korb, Why don’t we practice what we teach? Engineering Software for Computer Science Research in Academia, In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Applications (ICSERA’03), San Francisco, USA, pp. 25-30, 25-27 June 2003.
You can also download the presentation slides
Andre Oboler, David McG. Squire and Kevin B. Korb, Why don’t we practice what we teach? Engineering Software for Computer Science Research in Academia, Tech. Report 2003/139, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash University, Australia, 2003.

Knowledge Management

Andre Oboler, Formal Technical Reviews for Research Projects, CAQDAS 07 Conference – “Advances in Qualitative Computing”, London, 18-20 April 2007. [Slides]
Andre Oboler and Ian Sommerville, Research Documentation Guidelines: Capturing knowledge, improving research, in proceedings of Fourth International Conference on Information Technology : New Generations (ITNG 2007), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, April 2-4, 2007
Andre Oboler, Ian Sommerville, Simon Lock, Reflection: Improving research through knowledge transfer, in proceedings of the first International Conference on Software Engineering Advances (ICSEA 2006), Tahiti, French Polynesia, 29 October – 1 November 2006

Conference Proceedings

Dascalus, S., Dini, P., Morasca S., Ohta T. and Oboler A. (Eds), proceedings of the second International Conference on Software Engineering Advances (ICSEA 2007), Cap Esterel, France, 25-31 Aug. 2007, IEEE Press, 2007