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Dr. Annika Baumann

Photo: Jan Kopankiewicz

annika.baumannuni-potsdamde

Karl-Marx-Straße 67

14482 Potsdam

Consulting hours by appointment

Photo: Jan Kopankiewicz

Annika Baumann received her Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the Humboldt University of Berlin in 2010. She then continued studying for her Master in Information Systems at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 2010 to 2013. As part of her master's thesis, she analyzed the Internet network's structure and robustness using graph-based methods. Beginning in June 2013, she started working as a doctoral candidate and a research assistant at the Chair of Information Systems at Humboldt University in Berlin. In the course of her PhD, she continued working in the field of Internet topology research. Other main topics of her dissertation have been user behavior in social media and customer behavior in the e-commerce context. She finished her PhD in April 2018. Since the beginning of 2018, she has worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society and leads the research group "Well-Being in the Digital World".

Research Interests

My main research interests reside within the broader area of the investigation of the individual and societal impacts of platforms. My present research consists of two main areas. First, one focal topic of interest includes the investigation how the use of different kinds of platforms (e.g., social media, rating platforms) affect users concerning their well-being (e.g., self-esteem) but also concerning the strategic, competitive, or opportunistic behaviors of platform users (e.g., privacy behavior). The second focal interest of mine lies at the intersection of human-agent-interaction. Current projects investigate how advice provided by an algorithmic-based system might affect the behavior of individuals (e.g., decision-making behavior).

From a methodological point of view, my work is mainly empirical. I consider general quantitative research methods, experiments, social network analytics, machine learning approaches, including natural language processing, to be the most relevant ones.

Noteworthy Facts

  • Best Associate Editor Award at the "27th European Conference in Information Systems" (ECIS2019), Stockholm, Sweden, 2019.
  • Co-Chair Doctoral Consortium at the "15th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik" (WI2020), Potsdam, Germany, 2020.
  • Coordinator Doctoral Consortium at the "26th European Conference on Information Systems" (ECIS2018), Portsmouth, UK, 2018.
  • Awarded as best of the exam period in the Bachelor program Business Administration, Humboldt University of Berlin, 2011.

List of Publications

Journal Publications

  • Baum, K., Baumann, A. and K. Batzel (2024) "Investigating Innovation Diffusion in Gender-Specific Medicine: Insights from Social Network Analysis," Business & Information Systems Engineering 66:(3), pp. 335-355. DOI: 10.1007/s12599-024-00875-6
  • Meythaler, A., Krause, H. V., Baumann, A., Krasnova, H. and J. B. Thatcher (2023). "The Rise of Metric-based Digital Status: An Empirical Investigation Into the Role of Status Perceptions in Envy on Social Networking Sites," European Journal of Information Systems, pp. 1-28. DOI: 10.1080/0960085X.2023.2290707
  • Krause, H. V., große Deters, F., Baumann, A., and H. Krasnova (2023). "Active Social Media Use and Its Impact on Well-being — An Experimental Study on the Effects of Posting Pictures on Instagram," Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 28(1). DOI: 10.1093/jcmc/zmac037
  • Zahedi, A., Akalin, R. Ö., Lawrence, J. E., Baumann, A. and W. Sommer (2023). "The Nature and Persistence of the Effects of Posthypnotic Suggestions on Food Preferences: The Final Report of an Online Study," Frontiers in Psychology, 14. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1123907
  • Spiekermann, S., Krasnova, H., Hinz, O., Baumann, A., Benlian, A., Gimpel, H., Heimbach, I., Köster, A., Mädche, A., Niehaves, B., Risius, M. and M. Trenz (2022). "Values and Ethics in Information Systems – A State-of-the-Art Analysis and Avenues for Future Research," Business & Information Systems Engineering, 64, pp. 247–264. DOI: 10.1007/s12599-021-00734-8
  • Krause, H.-V., Baum, K., Baumann, A. and H. Krasnova (2021). “Unifying the Detrimental and Beneficial Effects of Social Network Site Use on Self-Esteem: A Systematic Literature Review,” Media Psychology, 24(1), pp. 10-47. DOI: 10.1080/15213269.2019.1656646.
  • Baumann, A., Haupt, J., Lessmann, S. and F. Gebert (2019). "The Price of Privacy - An Evaluation of the Economic Value of Collecting Clickstream Data," Business & Information Systems Engineering, 61(4), pp. 413-431.  DOI: 10.1007/s12599-018-0528-2
  • Baumann, A., Haupt, J. and S. Lessmann (2018). “Changing Perspectives: Using Graph Metrics to Predict Purchase Probabilities,” Expert Systems with Application, 94, pp. 137-148. DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2017.10.046
  • Fabian, B., Baumann A. and J. Lackner (2015). “Topological Analysis of Cloud Service Connectivity,” Computers & Industrial Engineering, 88, pp. 151-165. DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2015.06.009
  • Baumann, A. and B. Fabian (2013). "Towards Measuring the Geographic and Political Resilience of the Internet," International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations, 13(4), pp. 365-384. DOI: 10.1504/IJNVO.2013.064465

Conference Proceedings

2024

  • Baumann, A. (2024). "Observe or Engage that is the Question: How to Unravel the Positive Effect of Prosociality on Social Media," In: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI2024), September 16-19, 2024, Würzburg, Germany.
  • Baumann, A., Matook, S., Previte, J. and H. Krasnova (2024). "Prosocial Helping Behaviors for Effective Use of Social Media", In: Proceedings of the 32nd European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS2024), Paphos, Cyprus.

2023

  • Messerschmidt, N., Teitscheid, J. and A. Baumann (2023). “A Look Through a Broken Window: The Relationship Between Disorder and Toxicity on Social Networking Sites”, In: Proceedings of the 31st European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS2023), Kristiansand, Norway.

2022

  • Teitscheid, J., Baumann, A. and H. Krasnova (2022). “Coming Back for More: The Effect of News Feed Serendipity on Social Networking Site Usage”, In Proceedings of the Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS), Virtual Conference.

2021

  • Krause, H.-V.  and A. Baumann (2021). “The Devil in Disguise: Malicious Envy’s Impact on Harmful Interactions Between Social Networking Site Users.” In: Proceedings of the Forty-Second International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS2021). Austin, Texas (US).
  • Baum, K. and A. Baumann (2021). "Affective Forecasting Errors in the Context of Social Networking Site Use." In: Proceedings of the Forty-Second International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS2021). Austin, Texas (US).

2020

  • Krause, H.-V., große Deters, F. and A. Baumann (2020). “The Envy Spiral: Unraveling The Black Box Of Social Media Positivity.” In: Proceedings of the 28th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS2020). A Virtual AIS Conference.
  • Risius, M., Baumann, A. and H. Krasnova (2020). "Developing a New Paradigm: Introducing the Intention-Behaviour Gap to the Privacy Paradox Phenomenon." In: Proceedings of the 28th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS2020). A Virtual AIS Conference.
  • Jennewein, C., Baumann, A. and S. Lessmann (2020). "To Use or Not to Use: The Relationship Between Personality Traits and Instagram Usage." In: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI2020), March 08-11, 2020, Potsdam, Germany.

2019

  • Krause, H.-V., Wagner, A., Krasnova, H., große Deters, F., Baumann, A. and P. Buxmann (2019). "Keeping Up with the Joneses: Instagram Use and its Influence on Conspicuous Consumption." In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS2019), Munich, Germany.

2018

  • Voronin, G., Baumann, A. and S. Lessmann (2018). "Crowdturfing on Instagram - The Influence of Profile Characteristics on the Engagement of Others." In: Twenty-Sixth European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS2018), Portsmouth, UK, 2018.
  • Gladkaya, M., Gundlach, J., Bergert, C., Baumann, A. and H. Krasnova (2018). "We Need to Talk! Antecedents and Consequences of Children's Smartphone Use - A Literature Review." In: Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS2018), New Orleans, LA, August 16-18, 2018.

2017

  • Gubela, R., Lessmann, S., Haupt, J., Baumann, A., Radmer, T. and F. Gebert (2017). “Revenue Uplift Modeling.” In: Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS2017), Seoul, South Korea, December 10th-13th.
  • Abramova, O., Baumann, A., Krasnova, H. and S. Lessmann (2017). “To Phub or not to Phub: Understanding Off-Task Smartphone Usage and its Consequences in the Academic Environment." In: Proceedings of the 25th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS2017), Guimarães, Portugal, June 5th-10th.
  • Fabian, B., Baumann, A., Ehlert, M., Ververis, V. and T. Ermakova (2017). "CORIA — Analyzing internet connectivity risks using network graphs." In: 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), pp. 1-6.

2016

  • Krasnova, H., Abramova, O., Notter, I. and A. Baumann (2016). “Why Phubbing is Toxic for Your Relationship: Understanding the Role of Smartphone Jealousy Among "Generation Y" Users." In: Proceedings of the 24th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS2016), Istanbul, Turkey, June 12th-15th.
  • Abramova, O., Baumann, A., Krasnova, H. and P. Buxmann (2016). “Gender Differences in Online Dating: What Do We Know So Far? A Systematic Literature Review." In: Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-49), Kauai, Hawaii, January 5th-8th.
  • Baumann, A., Fabian, B., Lessmann, S. and L. Holzberg (2016). "Twitter and the Political Landscape – A Graph Analysis of German Politicians." In: Proceedings of the 24th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS2016), Istanbul, Turkey, June 12th-15th.

2015

  • Baumann, A. and B. Fabian (2015). “Vulnerability Against Internet Disruptions – A Graph-based Perspective." In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Critical Information Infrastructures Security (CRITIS2015), Berlin, Germany, October 5th-7th.
  • Fabian, B., Baumann, A. and M. Keil (2015). “Privacy on Reddit? Towards Large-scale User Classification.” In: Proceedings of the 23rd European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS2015), Münster, Germany, May 26th-29th.
  • Baumann, A., Lessmann, S. Coussement, K. and K. W. De Bock (2015). “Maximize What Matters: Predicting Customer Churn with Decision-centric Ensemble Selection.” In: Proceedings of the 23rd European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS2015), Münster, Germany, May 26th-29th.
  • Baumann, A., Krasnova, H., Veltri, N. and Y. Ye (2015). “Men, Women, Microblogging: Where Do We Stand?” In: 12. Internationale Tagung Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI2015), Osnabrück, Germany, March 4th-6th, Candidate for the Best Paper Award.

2014

  • Baumann, A. and B. Fabian (2014). “How Robust is the Internet? – Insights from Graph Analysis." In: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Risks and Security of Internet and Systems (CRiSIS’14), Trento, Italy, August 27th-29th.
  • Veltri, N., Krasnova, H., Baumann, A. and N. Kalayamthanam (2014). “Gender Differences in Online Gaming: A Literature Review." In: Twentieth Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS2014), Savannah, USA, August 7th-9th.
  • Ermakova, T., Baumann, A., Fabian, B. and H. Krasnova (2014). “Privacy Policies and Users’ Trust: Does Readability Matter?" In: Twentieth Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS2014), Savannah, USA, August 7th-9th.
  • Baumann, A. and B. Fabian (2014). “Who Runs the Internet? - Classifying Autonomous Systems into Industries." In: 10th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST2014), Barcelona, Spain, April 3rd-5th.
  • Baumann, A., Fabian, B. and M. Lischke (2014). “Exploring the Bitcoin Network." In: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST2014), Barcelona, Spain, April 3rd-5th.

2011

  • Brecht, F., Schäfer, K., Baumann, A., and O. Guenther (2011). "Shopping Online-Determining Consumer Acceptance of Online Shops." In: Seventeenth Twentieth Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS2014), Detroit, Michigan August 4th-7th.

 

Transfer Activities

2024

  • Fernseh-Interview “Was macht Bildbearbeitung mit uns?”, RTL Punkt 12 Mittagsmagazin
  • Bayerisches Forschungsinstitut für Digitale Transformation - Glossar-Artikel zum Thema "Digitales Wohlbefinden"

2023

2022

  • Invited Talk “The Good, the Bad, and… the Ugly? Soziale Medien und ihr Einfluss auf unser Wohlbefinden“, Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF) Jahreskonferenz, Universität Bielefeld
  • Invited Talk “Closing the Gap(s): Solving the Privacy Paradox”, Brownbag Seminar der Fernuniversität Hagen
  • Magazin-Beitrag WZB-Magazin Thema Gesundheit „Schlechte Gefühle: Wie Neid in Sozialen Medien entsteht – und versteckt wird“

2021

  • Video-Podcast “Discover Neuland”
  • Invited Talk “MINTMagie und Wissenschaft – Wie geht denn das?” FORSCHA Messe
  • Invited Talk “Closing the Gap(s): Solving the Privacy Paradox”, Graduiertenkolleg RTG "Privacy and Trust for Mobile Users"

2020

  • Panel “To Share or Not to Share: Should IS Researchers Share or Hoard Their Precious Data?”, 28th European Conference on Information Systems, Marrakesh, Morocco

2019

  • Research-Talk “The Price of Privacy: An Evaluation of the Economic Value of Collecting Clickstream Data”, Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Copenhagen, Denmark

Service for the Research Community

Reviewer

  • Business & Information Systems Engineering (BISE)
  • Current Psychology (CUPS)
  • European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS)
  • Internet Research (IR)
  • Information Systems Journal (ISJ)
  • International Journal of Network Science (IJNS)
  • PLOS ONE
  • Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS)
  • European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS)
  • Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)
  • International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)
  • Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik (MKWI)
  • Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI)

 

Editorial Board

  • Internet Research (since 2020/06)

 

Associate Editor

  • European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS2019) – “Social Media - Digital Work Digital Life”
  • European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS2020) – “Cognition and Human Behavior in Information Systems”
  • European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS2021) – "Social Media and Digital Collaboration"
  • European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS2022) – "Social Media and Digital Collaboration"
  • European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS2023) – "Social Media and Digital Collaboration"
  • International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS2019) – “Cyber-Security, Privacy and Ethics of IS”
  • International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS2022) – "Digitization for the Next Generation"
  • Konferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI2019) – “Information Security and Information Privacy”
  • Konferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI2020) – “Human-Computer Interaction”
  • Konferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI2021) – “Information Security, Privacy and Blockchain”
  • Konferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI2022) – “Digitalisierung und Menschenrechte” & "Digitalisierung und Implikationen für Arbeitsmärkte"
  • Konferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI2023) – “Digital Innovation, Adoption, and Use"

 

Track Chair

  • Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS2020) – “Strategic and Competitive Behavior on Digital Platforms” (with Michael Wessel)
  • Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS2021) – “Strategic and Competitive Behavior on Digital Platforms” (with Michael Wessel)
  • Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS2022) – “Sustainability and Societal Impacts of ICTs” (with Hanna Krasnova and Sabine Matook)
  • Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI2020) – “Social Media in Business and Society” (with Matthias Trier and Christian Meske)