iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Dr. Joe Ondrak @theondrakguy.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Very pleased to have co-authored this research with Laura Vitelli to forward the concept of Participatory Memetic Violence to help strategic countering and intervention in ideologically-diffuse violence. gnet-research.org/2025/12/18/p... 🧵 - 1/...

gnet-research.org

Participatory Memetic Violence: Legend, Ostension, and Ideologically Diffuse Violence - GNET

2113

Reposted by Dr. Joe Ondrak

GNET @gnetresearch.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

This week, @theondrakguy.bsky.social and Laura Vitelli examine acts of violence arising from ideologically diffuse online environments through the lens of ostension. They demonstrate how ostension allows us to map the escalation from content consumption to content production to offline action.

gnet-research.org

Participatory Memetic Violence: Legend, Ostension, and Ideologically Diffuse Violence - GNET

021

Dr. Joe Ondrak @theondrakguy.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

What we are starting to reckon with, through our developing threat picture of NVE and now this, is the irreverence given to acts of extreme real-world violence when carried out as communicative acts for *being* online for certain communities....

1244

Dr. Joe Ondrak @theondrakguy.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Marc-André is doing the difficult but essential work here. A great thread and assessment.

071

Dr. Joe Ondrak @theondrakguy.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

My 2p for the Satanist trainspotters pointing towards Order of Nine Angles: I'd argue this is a parody of O9A distilled through various online recombinations and iterations. Some of the language and symbols are there, but none of the intended meaning & certainly not the practice as developed by O9A.

1273

Dr. Joe Ondrak @theondrakguy.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

I don't post much any more, but for everyone poring over the manifesto, scrawlings, and footprint following the Minneapolis shooting, here's a timesaver. The aim is to be remembered, discussed, to turn oneself into content that then becomes the next reference on a gun.

7551126

Reposted by Dr. Joe Ondrak

Dr. Marc-André Argentino @maargentino.com · 13/02/2025

Todays guest post was written by @theondrakguy.bsky.social who delves into the evolution of media fiction and its influence on participatory nihilistic violence. He explore the interplay between media narratives and real-world acts of violence. www.maargentino.com/the-eleven-y...

maargentino.com

The Eleven-Year History of the Media-Fiction Effects that Underpin Participatory Nihilistic Violence

44016

Reposted by Dr. Joe Ondrak

sina @rejectionking.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

currently pitching/booking guests for next set of @theloopcast.bsky.social shows - continuing w our series on lawful extremism and then taking it from there ^<•>^

21613

Dr. Joe Ondrak @theondrakguy.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Since I'm making an effort to post here a bit more, my PhD thesis - Digesting Creepypasta: An Analysis of Social Media Horror Narratives as Fourth Generation Digital Fiction - is available to read via Sheffield Hallam's library page. shura.shu.ac.uk/32027/

1299

Dr. Joe Ondrak @theondrakguy.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Bit of a jump scare while window shopping for money pits on Facebook earlier.

041

Dr. Joe Ondrak @theondrakguy.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Intro time. I'm a researcher and OSINT analyst. Interested in human/medium interaction, digital narratology, tech-led cultural intelligence, and barking at policy types to read more McLuhan. Currently working in CVE spaces focusing on composite threats, and analytical best practice for OSINT.

091

Dr. Joe Ondrak @theondrakguy.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

I suppose I should endeavour to use this a bit more since there's a mass-migration (and an influx of followers, hi and thank you). It'll be interesting to see how this shakes out in the next 4 years. Will Bluesky / X be the next Tumblr / 4chan?

061