Die Juniorprofessur für Wirtschaftsinformatik, insb. Digital Society sucht zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt Studentische Hilfskräfte (w/m/d) oder Wissenschaftliche Hilfskräfte mit Bachelorabschluss (w/m/d).
Professor Milad Mirbabaie's recent publication deals with the usage of Clickbait to make people click on a linked article that is commonly used on social media. Therefore they analyzed the impact of clickbait on user interaction on Facebook in the form of liking, sharing and commenting. Together with his co-authors he revealed that certain features (e.g., unusual punctuation and common clickbait phrases) increase user interaction, whereas others…
Professor Milad Mirbabaie's recent publication analyzes the landscape of design-oriented GIS research. Green IS (GIS) research addresses environmental challenges brought on by climate change and the need to preserve the natural environment. Within this scope, design-oriented research, most notably within the Design Science Research (DSR) community, aims to provide solutions to these environmental challenges in the form of novel artifacts. The…
Professor Mirbabaie and colleagues address in a recent publication the differences in the perception of trust in human and virtual influencers. Influencers in social media are often perceived as a trusted source for many people which is why companies increasingly promote their products through them. However, influencers can also cause reputational damage for a brand. Virtual (computer-generated) influencers can be used to minimize these risks and…
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Professor Mirbabaie’s latest publication deals with the use of information technology (IT), which is having an increasing impact on society but also on the future of work. This is rooted in serious consequences that screen time can have on an individual's well-being, such as technostress, which is defined as "any negative impact on attitudes, thoughts, behaviors, or body physiology caused either directly or indirectly by technology." In this…
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Professor Mirbabaie addresses in a recent publication the use of social platforms such as Twitter to seek and disseminate crisis-related information. In this context, it is particularly noticeable that sense-making and decision-making processes are increasingly interrupted by contradictory cues such as rumors. Within a case study, the authors seek to understand how sense-making, i.e., rumor-supporting and rumor-correcting, messages influence the…
Fake News und Desinformationen sind ein immer größer werdendes Problem, besonders die Sozialen Medien sind in hohem Maße von dem Phänomen betroffen. Fake News und Verschwörungstheorien erschweren die Meinungsbildung und können den Zusammenhalt unserer Gesellschaft schaden und soziale Unruhen auslösen. Sicherheitsbehörden, wie die Polizei oder die Feuerwehr genießen großes Vertrauen der Gesellschaft, wissen jedoch oftmals nicht, wie sie diesen…
Professor Milad Mirbabaie's recent publication deals with the Widespread mis- and disinformation during the COVID-19 social media “infodemic”, which is challenging the effective response of Emergency Management Agencies (EMAs). Conversational Agents (CAs) have the potential to amplify and distribute trustworthy information from EMAs to the general public in times of uncertainty. However, the structure and responsibilities of such EMAs are…
We are pleased to announce that Professor Mirbabaie has published two papers (in German) together with his co-authors in the journal HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik.
They have conducted in the first paper “Affordance-Experimentation: Eine Fallstudie zur Entwicklung von Virtual-Reality-Anwendungsfällen im Unternehmenskontext“ a case study examining the introduction of virtual reality use cases in the corporate context. Their results reveal…
Professor Milad Mirbabaie's recent publication shows that in addition to the existing benefits for the health sector, some ethical issues may also be raised. Together with his co-authors, he shows that research to date on ethical considerations of AI in digital health is quite sparse, and a holistic overview is not available. With the help of a systematic literature review, five main ethical principles are identified: Beneficiality,…
Wir freuen uns sehr, dass am vergangenen Donnerstag den 20.01.2022, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Stefan Morana von der Universität des Saarlandes bei uns zu Besuch war, und einen Gastvortrag zum Thema ‚Validity of Chatbot Use for Mental Health Assessment: An Experimental Study‘ gehalten hat. Sein Vortrag machte darauf aufmerksam, dass psychische Störungen im jungen Erwachsenenalter ein Problem der öffentlichen Gesundheit darstellen. Als Lösung dafür…
Zur Unterstützung der Juniorprofessur Wirtschaftsinformatik, insb. Digital Society, suchen wir zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine WHB für unser Team. Der Umfang der Beschäftigung beschränkt sich auf 7,5 Stunden die Woche. Weitere Informationen entnehme bitte der Ausschreibung. Wenn wir dein Interesse wecken konnten, melde dich gerne bei uns per E-Mail.
We are pleased to announce that Professor Mirbabaie has published two papers together with his co-authors in the proceedings of the Australasian Conference on Information Systems (2021).
They address in the first paper "Designing a Social Media Analytics Dashboard for Government Agency Crisis Communications" the usage of Social Media as a mouthpiece for Government agencies in times of crisis. It has been shown that Social Media have become a…
