Editorial Team

Matthias J. Becker, PhD, is Editor-in-Chief of Digital Hate Review. He is also an AddressHate Senior Research Scholar at NYU's Center for the Study of Antisemitism, where he leads the Decoding Hate project. A cognitive linguist and discourse analyst by training, his work examines how antisemitism, related hate ideologies, and antidemocratic resentment circulate across digital environments in their explicit, coded, and multimodal forms, combining qualitative discourse analysis with computational and LLM-enhanced methods.

From 2020 onward, he led Decoding Antisemitism, the largest European study of antisemitism in digital communication, producing Decoding Antisemitism: A Guide to Identifying Antisemitism Online (Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature, 2024) and six Discourse Reports on hate speech across the UK, France, and Germany, with subsequent work extending to the US.

He is co-editor of two further open-access volumes — Antisemitism in Online Communication: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Hate Speech in the Twenty-First Century (Open Book Publishers, 2024) and Imagery of Hate Online (Open Book Publishers, 2025) — and author of Antisemitism in Reader Comments (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). He has advised the US State Department, the European Commission, the German Federal Government, and Meta on platform governance and AI-assisted detection of online hate.

Keyu Glanz is Managing Editor at Digital Hate Review and Research Scientist at AddressHate. At DHR, he oversees the journal's editorial operations and peer review process, working closely with contributors, reviewers, and the editorial board to ensure the publication of high-quality scholarship and practitioner perspectives on digital hate and online extremism. At AddressHate, he designs and supports interdisciplinary research projects and contributes to grant development — identifying funding opportunities, shaping research proposals, and advancing the organization's long-term research strategy. 

Trained as a communication scholar, he studies the intersection of political communication and international relations, with particular emphasis on global information campaigns conducted by the United States and competing states, including China, Russia, and Iran. His work combines computational text analysis — sentiment analysis, topic modeling, and other machine-learning approaches — with statistical modeling and qualitative methods. His scholarship has appeared in International Communication Gazette, International Journal of Communication, Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, Global Media and China, and Journal of Current Chinese Affairs. His current book project draws on computational methods and critical cultural approaches to analyze contested definitions of human rights between the United States and China across more than two decades of government reports and state-sponsored social media accounts.

Katerina Papatheodorou is Editorial and Outreach Coordinator at Digital Hate Review, where she builds partnerships and networks across the academic, security, and civil society sectors and works to establish the journal's visibility on a global scale, alongside supporting the editorial and peer review process. A research psychologist, she holds a PhD from Georgia State University. Her work focuses on terrorism, mass violence, and the digital manifestations of misogyny, combining forensic psychology with computational and qualitative methods at the intersection of psychology, security research, and policy. She has spent years studying how extremist actors radicalize and organize across regions and cultural contexts, and led a major study of the incel movement and online misogyny that formed the core of her doctoral research. Her interests extend to how state actors construct and circulate narratives through global media, and to how violence comes to be classified and understood as extremism in the first place. Her scholarship has appeared in Psychology, Crime & Law, Terrorism and Political Violence, the Journal for Deradicalization, and Electronic News, among others.