Christian Kurtz
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Research AssociateM.A. Management & Controlling / Information Systems
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Research Fields
Governance for responsible handling of personal and /related data and information in a complex networked world. This includes, among others, focal points such as
- Digital ecosystems, including platform or service ecosystems
- Value-Sensitive Design
- Information Privacy
with a focus on interdisciplinary research at the interfaces of computer science, ethics and law.
Publications
- Kurtz, C., Vogel, P., and Semmann, M. (2022) "Exploring Archetypes of Value Co-Destructive Privacy Practices", Proceedings of the 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Hawaii, United States of America.
- Heuer, M. Kurtz, C., and Böhmann, T. (2022) "Towards a Governance of Low-Code Development Platforms Using the Example of Microsoft PowerPlatform in a Multinational Company", Proceedings of the 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Hawaii, United States of America.
- Kurtz, C., Wittner, F., Semmann, M., Schulz, W., Böhmann, T. (2021) "Accountability of platform providers for unlawful personal data processing in their ecosystems–A socio-techno-legal analysis of Facebook and Apple's iOS according to GDPR", Journal of Responsible Technology.
- Jacobs, M., Kurtz, C., Simon, J., and Böhmann, T. (2021) "Value-sensitive design and power in socio-technical ecosystems", Internet Policy Review.
- Gebken, L., Kurtz, C., Drews, P., Schirmer, I., and Böhmann, T. (2021) "A Multilevel Design Framework for Human-Value-Oriented Digital Social Innovation Ecosystems Grounded in a Case Study on Digital Donation", Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Austin, United States of America.
- Burmeister, F., Kurtz, C., Vogel, P., Drews, P., and Schirmer, I. (2021) "Unraveling Privacy Concerns in Complex Data Ecosystems with Architectural Thinking", Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Austin, United States of America.
- Kurtz, C., Wittner, F., Jacobs, M., (2021). "Cities WITHOUT Privacy: How Ecosystem Awareness Can Improve the Design of Interconnected Smart City Services", Book: Digital City Science. Researching New Technologies in Urban Environments
Perspectives in Metropolitan Research 6.
- Vogel, P., Kurtz, C., Grotherr, C., Böhmann, T. (2021) "Fostering Social Resilience via Online Neighborhood Social Networks During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond: Status Quo, Design Dilemmas and Research Opportunities" Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 54 (HICSS), A Virtual AIS Conference. (Best Paper)
- Kurtz, C., Wittner, F., Semmann, M., Vogel, P., Böhmann, T. (2020). "Design Goals for Consent at Scale in Digital Service Ecosystems", Twenty-Eigth European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS2020) – A Virtual AIS Conference.
- Vogel, P., Grotherr, C., Kurtz, C., & Böhmann, T. (2020). "Conceptualizing Design Parameters of Online Neighborhood Social Networks", Proceedings of the International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI), Potsdam, Germany.
- Kurtz, C., Wittner, F., Semmann, M., Schulz, W., Böhmann, T. (2019). "The Unlikely Siblings in the GDPR Family: A Techno-Legal Analysis of Major Platforms in the Diffusion of Personal Data in Service Ecosystems", Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (52),
- Kurtz, C., Semmann, M., Schulz, W. (2018). "Towards a Framework for Information Privacy in Complex Service Ecosystems", Proceedings of the Thirty Ninth International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), San Francisco, United States of America.
- Kurtz, C., Semmann, M., Böhmann, T. (2018). "Privacy by Design to Comply with GDPR: A Review on Third-Party Data Processors", Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems (24), New Orleans, United States of America.
Selected presentations and workshops
- Presentation "Impact of Boundary Resources on Information Privacy in Platform Ecosystems -Leveraging the Cases of Facebook and iOS", MISQ Virtual Author Development Workshop, 2020.
- Presentation "Traceability of Personal Data – How Diffusion and Rebound Affect us in a Digital World", Paper Development Workshop “Special Issue on the Dark Side of Analytics and Artificial Intelligence” of the European Journal of Information Systems at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), 2019, Munich (Germany).
- Presentation "Exploring the Diffusion and Rebound of Personal Data in Complex Service Ecosystems – An Analysis of Privacy-Critical Cases", Paper Writing Workshops with Professor Michael Myers, 2019, Loughborough (United Kingdom).
- Workshop "Cities without Privacy - How techno-legal ecosystem awareness can improve the design of connected smart city services", City Science Summit, 2019, Hamburg (Germany).
- Presentation "Towards Information Privacy in Service Ecosystems", Hamburg Interdisciplinary Summer School “Governance Technologies: Privacy, Fairness & Transparency”, 2019, Hamburg (Germany).
- Presentation "Information Governance Technologies - Facets of computer science and how central areas of a modern society can be actively shaped", Sommer of Knowledge, 2019, Hamburg (Germany).
- Presentation "Towards Information Privacy in Service Ecosystems", Forum Competitive Advantage in the Digital Economy Forum (CADE), 2019, Venice (Italy).
- Presentation "Information Privacy in Service Ecosystems", Doctorial Consortiums at the 14th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik, 2019, Siegen (Germany).
(Presentations of publications not included)
Community activities
Reviews
Journals
- Business Research (BURE)
- Reviewer: 2021 [1], 2020 [2]
- Communications of the Association for Information Systems (CAIS)
- Reviewer: 2019 [2], 2018 [1]
- Information Systems Journal (ISJ)
- Reviewer: 2019 [1]
- Journal of Information Technology (JIT)
- Reviewer: 2021 [2]
- Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research
- Reviewer: 2021 [1]
- The European Journal of Information Systems
- Reviewer: 2020 [1]
Conferences
- Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS)
- Reviewer: 2020 [1], 2019 [2]
- European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS)
- Reviewer: 2022 [1], 2021 [3], 2020 [2], 2019 [1]
- International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)
- Reviewer: 2019 [1]
- Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)
- Reviewer: 2022 [1], 2020 [1], 2019 [1]
- Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI)
- Reviewer: 2020 [3], 2019 [2]
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Teaching
Winter semester 2021/22
- Free elective / Studium generale: Data Worlds I: Introduction to Data Science - Lecture
Summer semester 2021
- Software Systems Development (B.Sc. ): Internship
- IT Management and Consulting (M.Sc.): Service Lifecycle Management (SLM) - Tutorial
Winter semester 2020/21
- IT Management and Consulting (M.Sc.): IT-Innovation und Transfer (ITIT) - Tutorial
- Software Systems Development (B.Sc. ): Internship
Summer semester 2020
- Software Systems Development (B.Sc. ): Internship
Winter semester 2019/20
- IT Management and Consulting (M.Sc.): IT-Innovation und Transfer (ITIT) - Tutorial
- Software Systems Development (B.Sc. ): Internship
- Participation in the Q&A session for pupils regarding computer science studies
Academic Service
- Since 2018: Representative of the Academic Staff in the local Ethics Commission of the Department of Informatics of the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences
- Since 2018: Representative of the Academic Staff in the decentralized examination board for the teaching profession in informatics
- Since 2018: Representative of the Academic Staff in the quality circle of the Master's programme IT-Management and -Consulting
Vita
since 2017: Research associate, IT Management and Consulting working group, Department of Informatics, University of Hamburg
2016 - 2017: IT-Consultant, NTT DATA Deutschland GmbH
2015 - 2016: Thesis student, NTT DATA Deutschland GmbH
2013 - 2016: M. A., Management & Controlling / Information Systems, Leuphana University of Lüneburg
2013: Thesis student, reQuire Consultants GmbH
2012 - 2015: Working student: Computer-Integrated Manufacturing (Department of Business Computing, Paderborn University), reQuire Consultants GmbH, NTT DATA Deutschland GmbH
2010 - 2013: B. Sc., Business Administration and Economics, Paderborn University
Awards
- „Hamburger Lehrpreis“ - together with Prof. Dr. Tilo Böhmann, Julia Bräker and Tom Lewandowski for outstanding and innovative teaching achievements, awarded by the "Behörde für Wissenschaft, Forschung, Gleichstellung und Bezirke (BWFGB)" (2021).
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3rd prize of the Digital Science Slam on the topic of Computational Propaganda of the Network of Labs, Hamburg (2021).
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3rd place of the Open Innovation Challenge, NTT DATA Germany (2017)
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Class of the year graduate with outstanding academic performance, Leuphana University of Lüneburg (2016).
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1st place of the jury (endowed) at the Conference on Entrepreneurship, Leuphana University of Lüneburg (2015)
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Audience Award (endowed) at the Conference on Entrepreneurship, Leuphana University of Lüneburg (2015)
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State scholarship of Lower Saxony for particularly talented students (2014)
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Finalist of the Lüneburg Business Awards (2014)
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1st prize (endowed) in the ideas competition "Challenge of Demographic Change - Opportunities for the Skilled Crafts" of the Chamber of Skilled Crafts Braunschweig-Lüneburg-Stade (2014)