Dr Andre Oboler has been a Senior Lecturer in the Law School at La Trobe University, a Tutor, Demonstrator and Research Assistant at Monash University, a General Teaching Assistant at Lancaster University and a Post Doctoral Fellow at Bar-Ilan University. His research has been published in academic journals, conferences, think tanks, and the media.
Selected Publications
- Oboler A, Allington W., Scolyer-Gray P., Hate and Violent Extremism from an Online Sub-Culture: The Yom Kippur Terrorist Attack in Halle, Germany (Online Hate Prevention Institute, 2019)
- Andre Oboler and Karen Connelly, Building SMARTER communities of resistance and solidarity, Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: an interdisciplinary journal 10(2), 2018.
- Jakubowicz, A., Dunn, K., Mason, G., Paradies, Y., Bliuc, A.-M., Bahfen, N., Oboler, A., Atie, R., Connelly, K. Cyber racism and community resilience (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
- Andre Oboler, Legal Doctrines Applied to Online Hate Speech, Computers & Law, Number 87, pp 9—15, July 2014.
- 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, A legal model for government intervention to combat online hate, Internet Law Bulletin 14(2), May 2011
- 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.
- 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, 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
- 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.
See all publications (includes reports and op-eds).
Professional Academic Activity
- Co-General Chair, IEEE Conference on e-Learning, e-Management, and e-Services (IC3e 2014), December 10-12, Melbourne, Australia
- Organization Co-Chair, The 7th International Conference on Computer Science & Education (ICCSE 2012), July 14-17, 2012, Melbourne, Australia
- Reviewer, The 7th International Conference on Computer Science & Education (ICCSE 2012), July 14-17, 2012, Melbourne, Australia
- Program Committee, JITP 2011: The Future of Computational Social Science, May 16 & 17, 2011, Seattle, USA
- Reviewer for the Journal of Information Technology & Politics (JITP) 2010-present
- Chair of the Improving Research Productivity Workshop, at ICSEA 2007
- Co-editor of conference proceedings: Dascalus, S., Dini, P., Morasca S., Ohta T. and Oboler A., proceedings of the second International Conference on Software Engineering Advances (ICSEA 2007), Cap Esterel, France, 25-31 Aug. 2007, IEEE Press, 2007
- Completed Stage One Certificate in Learning and Teaching (Lancaster University)
Teaching
La Trobe University
Subject Coordinator / Lecturer for:
- LAW5SPD – Surveillance and Privacy in the Digital Age (2018, 2019)
- LAW5SPD (online) – Surveillance and Privacy in the Digital Age (2018)
- LAW5CTW – Cyberterrorism and International Warfare (2018, 2019)
- LAW5CTW (online) – Cyberterrorism and International Warfare (2018)
- LAW2CLP – Cyber Law and Policy (2019)
- LAW3DIP – Introduction to Digital Identity and Privacy (2019)
- CSE2HUM – Human Factors in Cybersecurity (Semester 2 – 2020)
Monash University
Demonstrator or Tutor for:
- FIT3077 – Software engineering: Architecture (Semester 1 – 2015, Semester 1 – 2016, Semester 1 – 2017)
- FIT2099 – Object-Oriented Design and Implementation (Semester 1 – 2017)
- FIT2024 – Software engineering practice (Semester 1 – 2015, Semester 1 – 2016)
- FIT2043 – Technical documentation for software engineers (Semester 2 – 2014, Semester 2 – 2015)
- FIT3077 – Software engineering: Architecture (Semester 1 – 2009)
- FIT1008 – Computer Science (Semester 1 – 2009)(Java)
- FIT1002 – Computer programming (Semester 1 – 2009) (Java)
Lancaster University
- CSc112 Programming in Java (term 2), General Teaching Assistant 2006-2007
- CSc246 Scientific Methods, General Teaching Assistant 2006-2007
- CSc111 Programming in Java, General Teaching Assistant 2006-2007
- CSc243 Databases Systems, General Teaching Assistant 2006-2007
- CSC152 Web Technologies – Scripting, Lecturer (with Nelly Bencomo) in 2003-2004 and created this new unit
- CSC153 Web Technologies – Project, Lecturer 2003-2004 shopforjewellery.com project
- CSC153 Web Technologies – Project, Lecturer 2004-2005 FlagShip accommodation fault logging system project
- CSC161 – Software Engineering, Lab demonstrator 2003-2004
- CSc242 / CSc321 Requirements Engineering, General Teaching Assistant 2004-2005
- CSC120 Fundamentals of Computer Science, (Lab demonstrator 2004-2005)
- CSc233 Languages, Grammars and Machines, General Teaching Assistant 2005-2006
- CSc331 The Compilation Process, General Teaching Assistant 2005-2006
Monash University
Demonstrator or Tutor for:
- CSE3308 – Software engineering: Analysis and design (Semester 1 – 2002 and 2003) (UML)
- CSE2305 – Object oriented software engineering (Semester 2 – 2001) (C++)
- CSE1402 – Technical documentation for software engineers (Semester 2 – 2001) (Latex)
- CSE1401 – Introduction to software engineering (Semester 1 – 2003) (Java)
- CSE1301 – Computer programming (Semester 1 – 2001) (C)
Academic Positions
- 2020 – Sessional Lecturer, Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, La Trobe University
- 2020 – Honorary Associate, Law School, La Trobe University
- 2019 – Senior Lecturer, Law School, La Trobe University
- 2017 – 2018 Lecturer, Law School, La Trobe University
- 2017 Administrative Tutor (FIT3077 and FIT2099, Semester 1 2017)
- 2014 – current Demonstrator, Clayton School of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia
- 2009-2010 Demonstrator and Tutor, Clayton School of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia
- 2007-2008 Post Doctoral Fellow, Political Science Department, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
- 2006-2007 PhD Candidate (write up) & General Teaching Assistant (contract), Computing Department, Lancaster University, UK
- 2003-2006 PhD Candidate & General Teaching Assistant, Computing Department, Lancaster University, UK
- 2003 Research Assistant, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash University, Australia
- 2002-2003 Summer Vacation Scholar, SARBayes Search and Rescue Project, CSSE, Monash University, Australia
- 2002 Computer Science Honours (1st Class), School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash University, Australia
- 2002, 2003 Demonstrator and Tutor, CSSE, Monash University, Australia
- 2001-2002 Summer Vacation Scholar, The CaMML project, CSSE, Monash University, Australia
- 1999-2001 Bachelor of Computer Science, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash University, Australia