Malmi Amadoru

Malmi Amadoru is a lecturer in Business Information Systems at The University of Sydney Business School. She obtained her PhD in Information Systems at the Queensland University of Technology. Malmi won the second runner-up of the ACM SIGMIS Doctoral Dissertation Award and the ACPHIS PhD Medal for her dissertation in 2022. Before joining the University of Sydney, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at HEC Montreal. Her research focuses on how narratives, discussions, and debates surrounding digital technologies shape their meanings and influence their diffusion trajectories. She has conducted empirical studies on blockchain and the role of social bots in the diffusion of blockchain. Recently, she has begun studying digital transformation to explore how meanings surrounding digital technologies are materialized in organizations. Her work appears in prestigious conferences such as the International Conference on Information Systems and the Academy of Management.

Malmi Amadoru is an Assistant Professor at the University of Sydney, specializing in Digital Innovation, Social Bots, and Computational Methods. Their research explores the intersection of digital transformation, social media dynamics, and algorithmic methodologies. Amadoru's work includes examining the role of social bots in political movements, the socio-cognitive sensemaking of digital innovations, and the methodological rigor in computational analysis. They have published on topics such as the Botification of Institutional Entrepreneurship and the validity of computationally derived patterns. Their research emphasizes the importance of theoretical and methodological frameworks in understanding digital phenomena through computational approaches.