Felix Brünker | Team of the Research Group Digital Communication and Transformation

PhD StudentFelix Brünker, M.Sc.

Address: Forsthausweg 2, 47057 Duisburg
Office: LE 313
Phone: +49 203 379 1785
E-Mail: felix.bruenker@uni-due.de

Research Interest

IT Identity
Digital Work
Virtual Assistants / Conversational Agents and automated Communication
Social Media Analytics

Academic Qualification

since 10/2018	PhD Student in the Research Training Group User-Centred Social Media, University of Duisburg-Essen
10/2019 - 12/2019	RISE_SMA Exchange in the Discipline of Business Information Systems at the University of Sydney Business School
07/2019 - 08/2019	RISE_SMA Exchange at Municipality of Kristiansand and University of Agder
10/2015 - 07/2018	M.Sc. in Applied Cognitive and Media Science, University of Duisburg-Essen
10/2011 - 07/2015	B.Sc. in Applied Cognitive and Media Science, University of Duisburg-Essen

Professional background

since 10/2018	Research Associate at the University of Duisburg-Essen (Prof. Dr. Stieglitz, Digital Communication and Transformation)
11/2011 - 10/2018	Freelancer Online Marketing / Social Media Consulting
03/2015 - 09/2018	Head of Organisation Jazzband Challenge im Rahmen des Internationalen Jazzfestival Viersen, Stadt Viersen
11/2011 - 03/2015	Freelancer Farhouse Media GmbH & Co. KG, Cologne
03/2012 - 10/2012	Working student at WDR Cologne music department television
07/2011 - 09/2011	Intern at Farhouse Media GmbH & Co. KG, Cologne

Publications

Journals

Stieglitz, S., Hofeditz, L., Brünker, F., Ehnis, C., Mirbabaie, M., & Ross, B. (2022). How Crises Are Different – Design Principles for Conversational Agents to support Emergency Management Agencies. International Journal of Information Management (IJIM), 63 [doi]
Mirbabaie, M., Brünker, F., Möllmann (Frick), N.R.J., & Stieglitz, S. (2021). The Rise of Artificial Intelligence – Understanding the AI Identity Threat at the Workplace. Electronic Markets (ELMA), 1-27 [doi]
Cabrera, B., Ross, B., Röchert, D., Brünker, F., & Stieglitz, S. (2021). The Influence of Community Structure on Opinion Formation: An Agent-Based Model. Journal of Business Economics (JBEC), 91, 1331-1355 [doi]
Mirbabaie, M., Brünker, F., Wischnewski, M., & Meinert, J. (2021). The Development of Connective Action during Social Movements on Social Media. ACM Transactions on Social Computing (ACM TSC), 4(1) [doi]
Frick, N.R.J., Brünker, F., Ross, B., & Stieglitz, S. (2021). Comparison of disclosure/concealment of medical information given to conversational agents or to physicians. Health Informatics Journal (HIJ), 27(1), 1-10 [doi]
Mirbabaie, M., Stieglitz, S., & Brünker, F. (2021). Dynamics of Convergence Behaviour in Social Media Crisis Communication – A Complexity Perspective on Peoples’ Behaviour. Information Technology & People (ITP) [doi]
Mirbabaie, M., Stieglitz, S., Brünker, F., Hofeditz, L., Ross, B., & Frick, N. R. J. (2021). Understanding Collaboration with Virtual Assistants – The Role of Social Identity and the Extended Self. Business & Information Systems Engineering (BISE), 63, 21-37 [doi]
Brachten, F., Brünker, F., Frick, N., Ross, B. & Stieglitz, S. (2020). On the Ability of Virtual Agents to decrease Cognitive Load – An experimental study. Information Systems and e-Business Management (ISEB), 18, 187-207 [doi]

Frick, N., Brünker, F., Ross, B., & Stieglitz, S. (2019). Der Einsatz von künstlicher Intelligenz zur Verbesserung des Incident Managements. HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik [doi]

Conference Paper

Brünker, F., Hofeditz, L., Basyurt, A. S., & Stieglitz, S. (2022). ‘We’re all in this toGather’ – A Virtual World for Improving Knowledge Exchange and Social Interaction for Digital Work. Proceedings of the 30th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Timișoara, Romania
Clausen, S., Brünker, F., Jung, A.-K., & Stieglitz, S. (2022). The Impact of Signaling Commitment to Ethical AI on Organizational Attractiveness. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI), Nürnberg, Germany *Nominated for the Best Research-in-Progress Paper Award*
Brünker, F., Marx, J., Mirbabaie, M., & Stieglitz, S. (2022). Oiling the 'Tireless Selling-Machine' – Exploring Requirements for the Deployment of Social bots in Social Commerce. In Proceedings of the 55th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Maui, Hawaii *Nominated for the Best Paper Award*
Marx, J., Brünker, F., Mirbabaie, M. & Stieglitz, S. (2020). ‘Conspiracy Machines’ - The Role of Social Bots during the COVID-19 ‘Infodemic‘. Proceedings of the 31st Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS), Wellington, New Zealand.
Frick, N.R.J., Brünker, F., Ross, B., & Stieglitz, S. (2020). Design requirements for AI-based services enriching legacy information systems in enterprises: A managerial perspective. Proceedings of the 31st Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS), Wellington, New Zealand.
Hernandez-Bocanegra, D.C., Borchert, A., Brünker, F., Shahi, G.K., Ross, B., (2020). Towards a better understanding of online influence: Differences in Twitter communication between companies and influencers. Proceedings of the 31st Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS), Wellington, New Zealand.
Brünker, F., Marx, J., Ross, B., Mirbabaie, M., & Stieglitz, S. (2020). ‘The Tireless Selling-Machine’ – Commercial Deployment of Social Bots during Black Friday Season on Twitter. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI), Potsdam, Germany [doi]
Brünker, F., Wischnewski, M., Mirbabaie, M., & Meinert, J. (2020). The Role of Social Media during Social Movements – Observations from the #metoo Debate on Twitter. In Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Maui, Hawaii *Nominated for the Best Paper Award* [doi]
Brünker, F., Deitelhoff, F., & Mirbabaie, M. (2019). Collective Identity Formation on Instagram – Investigating the Social Movement Fridays for Future. Proceedings of the 30th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS), Fremantle, Australia
Frick, N., Brünker, F., Ross, B., & Stieglitz, S. (2019). Towards Successful Collaboration: Design Guidelines for AI-based Services enriching Information Systems in Organisations. Proceedings of the 30th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS), Fremantle, Australia
Stieglitz, S., Mirbabaie, M., Schwenner, L., Marx, J., Lehr, J., & Brünker, F. (2017). Sensemaking and Communication Roles in Social Media Crisis Communication. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI), St. Gallen, Switzerland. [doi]