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Open PhD positions in the Cluster of Excellence “Bilateral AI” at WU Wien (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
Position 1 - PhD (pre-doc) position (4 years) Organizational Unit: Institute for Complex Networks Principal Investigator: Assoz.Prof PD Dr. Sabrina Kirrane
Position 2 - PhD (pre-doc) position (4 years) Organizational Units: Institute for Retailing and Data Science; and Institute for Statistics and Mathematics Principal Investigators: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Nils Wlömert; and Univ.-Prof. Dr. Kurt Hornik
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K. Sliwa, A.L. Klug, E. Kušen, M. Strembeck: Exposure and Adoption of Social Dimensions During the Ukraine War
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Sabrina Kirrane finished her Habilitation on "Web Knowledge Governance: Legal Knowledge Representation and Automated Compliance Checking" Congratulations!
K. Sliwa, E. Kušen, M. Strembeck: A Case Study Comparing Twitter Communities Detected by the Louvain and Leiden Algorithms During the 2022 War in Ukraine
WWW '24: Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2024; May 2024Pages 1376–1381
https://doi.org/10.1145/3589335.3651892
E. Kušen, M. Strembeck: The Effects of Multiple Exposure to Highly Emotional Social Media Content During the Early Stages of the 2022 War in Ukraine
In: SN Computer Science 4, 663 (2023).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-023-02080-w
APA features recent study
(04/13/23)APA features recent study
A new report, published by the science division of the Austrian Press Agency (APA), prominently features one of our papers:
https://science.apa.at/power-search/13754141870703918810
The report has been picked up by ORF, Der Standard, Die Presse and others
https://wien.orf.at/stories/3202771/
https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000145441160/studie-zeigt-wie-unterschiedlich-menschen-auf-twitter-auf-den-terroranschlag
https://www.diepresse.com/6274997/je-weiter-weg-vom-tatort-desto-aengstlicher-die-twitter-user
E. Kušen, M. Strembeck: Short- and long-term impact of psychological distance on human responses to a terror attack
In: Online Social Networks and Media (OSNEM), Volume 33, January 2023
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.osnem.2023.100243
Best Paper Award at 56th HICSS Conference (2023)
Congratulations!
The paper „German Federal Election on Social Media: Analyzing Electoral Risks Created by Twitter and Facebook“ has won the Best Paper Award for the “Internet and the Digital Economy” track at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). An earlier version of this paper was published as a working report of our Sustainable Computing Lab [1]. The paper was presented in the mini-track on "Human-centricity in Sustainable Digital Economies" which was organized and chaired by Soheil Human, Gustaf Neumann and Rainer Alt.
We congratulate our colleagues Johanne Kübler, Marie-Therese Sekwenz, Felicitas Rachinger, Anna König, Rita Gsenger, Eliška Pírková, Ben Wagner, Matthias C. Kettemann, Michael Krennerich, and Carolina Ferro for this achievement and look forward to our next year's mini-track at HICSS.
[1] https://www.sustainablecomputing.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/DE_Elections_Report_Final_17.pdf
2022 EDUNIVERSAL BEST MASTERS RANKING
(01/09/23)2022 EDUNIVERSAL BEST MASTERS RANKING
We are pleased to announce that the "Information Systems" programme of our Institution is ranked as #1 in the 10th Best Masters Ranking (2022) for Information Systems programmes in Western Europe.
The quality of the program was measured by three main criteria:
- The reputation of the programme: be known and recognized by recruiting companies and have an active approach towards them.
- The salary of the first employment after graduation: placement of your graduates in the best job positions on the market.
- Student's satisfaction: work on improving your programmes by considering the feedback of your students.
This ranking gives our programs greater visibility with all stakeholders, including students, HR professionals, and the media.
https://www.best-masters.com/ranking-master-information-systems-management-in-western-europe.html
New Publication: Beleidsinformatica
(10/19/22)New Publication: Beleidsinformatica
New publication: Beleidsinformatica
New publication: The textbook "Wirtschaftsinformatik" by the authors Hans Robert Hansen, Jan Mendling and Gustaf Neumann has now also been published in Dutch. Benoît Depaire and Mieke Jans from the University of Hasselt were won over as co-authors for the Dutch version. The original German edition is considered the standard textbook for the German-speaking world and ranks #1 among business information systems books on Amazon. For students of WU Vienna, the book "Wirtschaftsinformatik" is still available free of charge in electronic form.
Further information on the Dutch edition can be found at the publisher's website.
