Felix Brünker | Team of the Research Group Professional Communication in Electronic Media / Social Media

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

Virtual Assistants / Conversational Agents in Organizations
Social Bots & Social Media Communication
Social Media Analytics
IT Identity

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, Professional Communication in Electronic Media / Social Media)
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

Journal Paper

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) (forthcoming)
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) [doi] (forthcoming)
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) [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

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]