Dr. Christian Kurtz
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Postdoctoral ResearcherDr. Christian KurtzVogt-Kölln-Straße 30 Phone: +49 (40) 428 83-2230 |
Research Fields
- Interdisciplinary research at the intersection of information systems, law and ethics.
- Focus on digital ecosystems - such as platform, service or data ecosystems - taking into account norms, legislations or values.
Publications
Information is also available on the Google Scholar as well as ResearchGate.
- Burmeister, F., Zar, M., Böhmann, T., Elkin-Koren, N., Kurtz, C., & Schulz, W. (2022) "Toward Architecture-Driven Interdisciplinary Research: Learnings from a Case Study of COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps". In Proceedings of the 2022 Symposium on Computer Science and Law (pp. 143-154).
- 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 "Information Privacy in Digital Ecosystems", ENLIVEN - Enhanced Learning and Teaching in International Virtual Environments - Co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, 2022.
- 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
- Review Coordinator and Program Chairs Assistance
- International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2022 Conference - Copenhagen, Denmark
- Minitrack Chair:
- Information Systems in the Regulatory Landscape Minitrack. HICSS-58 - Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Big Island, Hawaii, USA, 2025.
- Minitrack: Exploring the Intersection of Information Systems and Regulation on AI and Privacy, Americas' Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) 2024, Salt Lake City, USA
- Associate Editor:
- Track: Digital Service Systems, European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2024, Paphos, Cyprus
- Track: IT-Stategie, Management und Governance, Wirtschaftsinformatik 2024, Würzburg
- Track: Designing and Managing Digital Services and Service Systems, European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2023, Kristiansand, Norway
- Session Chair:
- Session: Understanding Users, Visualizing Threats, and Mitigating Risks, International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII) 2024, Washington DC, USA // Virtual
- Session: From FinTech to Blockchain Collaboration, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2022, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Reviewer:
Journals
- Business Research (BURE)
- Reviewer: 2023 [2], 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: 2024 [1], 2022 [2], 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 2023/24
- Free elective / Studium generale: Data Worlds I: Introduction to Data Science - Lecture
Winter semester 2022/23
- Free elective / Studium generale: Data Worlds I: Introduction to Data Science - Lecture
- Free elective / Studium generale: Crossing Perspectives: Illustrating, Analyzing, and Normatively Evaluating Media Ecosystems through Architectures
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
- 2018 - 2021: Representative of the Academic Staff in the local Ethics Commission of the Department of Informatics of the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences
- 2018 - 2022: Representative of the Academic Staff in the decentralized examination board for the teaching profession in informatics
- 2018 - 2022: 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
- In the teaching team of Prof. Dr. Tilo Böhmann, who was awarded the "Hamburg Teaching Prize" for outstanding and innovative teaching achievements by the Ministry of Science, Research, Equality and Districts (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)