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Open PhD positions in the Cluster of Excellence “Bilateral AI” at WU Wien (Vienna University of Economics and Business)

Open PhD positions in the Cluster of Excellence “Bilateral AI” at WU Wien (Vienna University of Economics and Business)

Exposure and Adoption of Social Dimensions During the Ukraine War

Karolina Sliwa, Anna-Lena Klug, Ema Kušen, and Mark Strembeck published the paper “Exposure and Adoption of Social Dimensions During the Ukraine War” at the 11th International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security (SNAMS), held in Gran Canaria, Spain on December 9-11, 2024. You can read the paper here

A Case Study Comparing Twitter Communities Detected by the Louvain and Leiden Algorithms During the 2022 War in Ukraine

Karolina Sliwa, Ema Kušen, and Mark Strembeck published the paper “A Case Study Comparing Twitter Communities Detected by the Louvain and Leiden Algorithms During the 2022 War in Ukraine" at the 2024 ACM Web Conference (WebConf), held in Singapore on May 13-17, 2024. You can read the paper here.

Sabrina Kirrane finished her Habilitation on "Web Knowledge Governance: Legal Knowledge Representation and Automated Compliance Checking"

Sabrina Kirrane finished her Habilitation on “Web Knowledge Governance: Legal Knowledge Representation and Automated Compliance Checking” Congratulations!

The Effects of Multiple Exposure to Highly Emotional Social Media Content During the Early Stages of the 2022 War in Ukraine

Ema Kušen, and Mark Strembeck published the paper “The Effects of Multiple Exposure to Highly Emotional Social Media Content During the Early Stages of the 2022 War in Ukraine" at the SN Computer Science Journal Volume 4 (SN COMPUT. SCI.). You can read the paper here

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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

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).

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

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.