University of Bamberg

The University of Bamberg, located in the UNESCO World Heritage City of Bamberg, offers a rich educational environment with a strong reputation in Information Systems. Our faculty comprises 23 professorships, including nine specifically in the field of Information Systems. With a dedication to high-quality, student-centered education, the university provides a range of bachelor\u27s and master\u27s programs that emphasize interdisciplinary learning and practical experience. The faculty is distinguished by its extensive research activities, particularly in international contexts, contributing to the university\u27s strong showing in relevant rankings where it consistently achieves top positions. Students have the opportunity to specialize in various areas, such as artificial intelligence and digital transformation, to tailor their educational experience. The school offers an excellent student-to-faculty ratio, ensuring personalized guidance and a supportive atmosphere conducive to learning. Our modern facilities and flexible study options, including both full-time and part-time enrollment, cater to a diverse student body. The university\u27s global outlook is supported by a wide network of international partner universities, facilitating a dynamic exchange of knowledge and cultural competence. Additionally, students have access to a range of part-time employment opportunities in the region to complement their studies and prepare them for their future careers

How migrants manifest their transnational identity through online social networks: comparative findings from a case of Koreans in Germany

Abstract Although migration has long been an imperative topic in social sciences, there are still needs of study on migrants’ unique and dynamic transnational identity, which heavily influences the social integration in the host society. In Online Social Network (OSN), where the contemporary migrants actively communicate and share their stories the most, different challenges against migrants’ belonging and identity and how they cope or reconcile may evidently exist. This paper aims to scrutinise how migrants are manifesting their belonging and identity via different technological types of online social networks, to understand the relations between online social networks and migrants’ multi-faceted transnational identity. The research introduces a comparative case study on an online social movement led by Koreans in Germany via their online communities, triggered by a German TV advertisement considered as stereotyping East Asians given by white supremacy’s point of view. Starting with virtual ethnography on three OSNs representing each of internet generations (Web 1.0 ~ Web 3.0), two-step Qualitative Data Analysis is carried out to examine how Korean migrants manifest their belonging and identity via their views on “who we are” and “who are others”. The analysis reveals how Korean migrants’ transnational identities differ by their expectation on the audience and the members in each online social network, which indicates that the distinctive features of the online platform may encourage or discourage them in shaping transnational identity as a group identity. The paper concludes with the two main emphases: first, current OSNs comprising different generational technologies play a significant role in understanding the migrants’ dynamic social values, and particularly, transnational identities. Second, the dynamics of migrants’ transnational identity engages diverse social and situational contexts. (keywords: transnational identity, migrants’ online social networks, stereotyping migrants, technological evolution of online social network)

How migrants manifest their transnational identity through online social networks: comparative findings from a case of Koreans in Germany

Abstract Although migration has long been an imperative topic in social sciences, there are still needs of study on migrants’ unique and dynamic transnational identity, which heavily influences the social integration in the host society. In Online Social Network (OSN), where the contemporary migrants actively communicate and share their stories the most, different challenges against migrants’ belonging and identity and how they cope or reconcile may evidently exist. This paper aims to scrutinise how migrants are manifesting their belonging and identity via different technological types of online social networks, to understand the relations between online social networks and migrants’ multi-faceted transnational identity. The research introduces a comparative case study on an online social movement led by Koreans in Germany via their online communities, triggered by a German TV advertisement considered as stereotyping East Asians given by white supremacy’s point of view. Starting with virtual ethnography on three OSNs representing each of internet generations (Web 1.0 ~ Web 3.0), two-step Qualitative Data Analysis is carried out to examine how Korean migrants manifest their belonging and identity via their views on “who we are” and “who are others”. The analysis reveals how Korean migrants’ transnational identities differ by their expectation on the audience and the members in each online social network, which indicates that the distinctive features of the online platform may encourage or discourage them in shaping transnational identity as a group identity. The paper concludes with the two main emphases: first, current OSNs comprising different generational technologies play a significant role in understanding the migrants’ dynamic social values, and particularly, transnational identities. Second, the dynamics of migrants’ transnational identity engages diverse social and situational contexts. (keywords: transnational identity, migrants’ online social networks, stereotyping migrants, technological evolution of online social network)

Parliaments day‐by‐day: A new Open Source database to answer the question of who was in what parliament, party, and party‐group, and when

Data files and r-scripts to go with manuscript titled 'Parliaments Day-by-Day: A New Open Source Database to Answer the Question Who Was in What Parliament, Party and Party-group When' (2021-08-09

Authoritarianism and achievement motivation in Germany today

SIGLEUuStB Koeln(38)-8307145 / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekPreprintDEGerman

Mid-career women in contemporary Italy

Der Forschungsbericht praesentiert die Ergebnisse einer Haushaltsumfrage von 1997 zur Situation der Frauen auf dem italienischen Arbeitsmarkt im Kontext des Globalisierungsprozesses. In das Thema einfuehrend skizzieren die Autoren zunaechst die oekonomischen und institutionellen Veraenderungen in Italien von den 1930er Jahren bis 2003. Das zweite Kapitel umfasst die zu analysierenden Globalisierungs-Hypothesen: (1) Der Globalisierungsprozess fuehrt bei Lebensverlaeufen von Frauen zu einer erhoehten Fragmentierung auf dem Arbeitsmarkt, beispielsweise einem haeufigeren Statuswechsel waehrend der Berufslaufbahn. (2) Die Rate der Berufsmobilitaet erhoeht sich in allen Geburtskohorten. (3) Der berufliche Unsicherheitsgrad wird voraussichtlich ansteigen. (4) Die Effekte des Familienstatus auf die Teilnahme der Frauen am Arbeitsmarkt haben im Laufe der Zeit abgenommen. Das dritte Kapitel stellt die Resultate dar, die entsprechend der vorangegangenen Annahmen in die Aspekte (1) Fragmentierung des Arbeitsmarktes, (2) berufliche Mobilitaet, (3) Unsicherheit auf dem Arbeitsmarkt, (4) die Muster der Teilnahme am Arbeitsmarkt und (5) die Auswirkungen des Familienstandes unterteilt sind. In der Schlussfolgerung merken die Autoren an, dass sich die Globalisierungs-These anhand der Untersuchungsergebnisse weder falsifizieren noch bestaetigen laesst. Vielmehr ist eine Spannbreite von gaenzlicher Uebereinstimmung mit den Annahmen bis zu gegensaetzlichen Resultaten festzustellen. (ICG2)German title: Frauen in der Mitte ihrer Berufskarriere im heutigen ItalienAvailable from Universitaet Bamberg, Fak. Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Fach Soziologie Lehrstuhl fuer Soziologie I, Bamberg (DE) / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekSIGLEDEGerman

Transatlantische Tagung zum internationalen Menschenschmuggel Tagungsbericht

'Anlaesslich zweier transatlantischer Tagungen diskutierten Regierungsvertreter, Polizeibeamte, Wissenschaftler, Experten und Vertreter non- und intergouvernementaler Organisationen ueber: Fallstudien zum internationalen Menschenschmuggel, den Menschenhandel zum Zwecke sexueller Ausbeutung, das Einschleusen von Asylbewerbern, den Einsatz gefaelschter Dokumente beim Menschenschmuggel. Die Teilnehmer eroerterten, welche Konsequenzen aus dem Menschenschmuggel und der sozialen Situation illegaler Migranten zu ziehen sind, sowie konkrete Massnahmen gegen den Menschenschmuggel. Abschliessend formulierten sie weiteren Forschungsbedarf.' (Textauszug)SIGLEAvailable from http://www.bafl.de/template/aktuelles/asylpraxis pdf/asylpraxis band 8 teil 03.pdf / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekDEGerman

PredictCBC-2.0: a contralateral breast cancer risk prediction model developed and validated in ~ 200,000 patients

Abstract Background Prediction of contralateral breast cancer (CBC) risk is challenging due to moderate performances of the known risk factors. We aimed to improve our previous risk prediction model (PredictCBC) by updated follow-up and including additional risk factors. Methods We included data from 207,510 invasive breast cancer patients participating in 23 studies. In total, 8225 CBC events occurred over a median follow-up of 10.2 years. In addition to the previously included risk factors, PredictCBC-2.0 included CHEK2 c.1100delC, a 313 variant polygenic risk score (PRS-313), body mass index (BMI), and parity. Fine and Gray regression was used to fit the model. Calibration and a time-dependent area under the curve (AUC) at 5 and 10 years were assessed to determine the performance of the models. Decision curve analysis was performed to evaluate the net benefit of PredictCBC-2.0 and previous PredictCBC models. Results The discrimination of PredictCBC-2.0 at 10 years was higher than PredictCBC with an AUC of 0.65 (95% prediction intervals (PI) 0.56–0.74) versus 0.63 (95%PI 0.54–0.71). PredictCBC-2.0 was well calibrated with an observed/expected ratio at 10 years of 0.92 (95%PI 0.34–2.54). Decision curve analysis for contralateral preventive mastectomy (CPM) showed the potential clinical utility of PredictCBC-2.0 between thresholds of 4 and 12% 10-year CBC risk for BRCA1/2 mutation carriers and non-carriers. Conclusions Additional genetic information beyond BRCA1/2 germline mutations improved CBC risk prediction and might help tailor clinical decision-making toward CPM or alternative preventive strategies. Identifying patients who benefit from CPM, especially in the general breast cancer population, remains challenging

PredictCBC-2.0: a contralateral breast cancer risk prediction model developed and validated in ~ 200,000 patients

Abstract Background Prediction of contralateral breast cancer (CBC) risk is challenging due to moderate performances of the known risk factors. We aimed to improve our previous risk prediction model (PredictCBC) by updated follow-up and including additional risk factors. Methods We included data from 207,510 invasive breast cancer patients participating in 23 studies. In total, 8225 CBC events occurred over a median follow-up of 10.2 years. In addition to the previously included risk factors, PredictCBC-2.0 included CHEK2 c.1100delC, a 313 variant polygenic risk score (PRS-313), body mass index (BMI), and parity. Fine and Gray regression was used to fit the model. Calibration and a time-dependent area under the curve (AUC) at 5 and 10 years were assessed to determine the performance of the models. Decision curve analysis was performed to evaluate the net benefit of PredictCBC-2.0 and previous PredictCBC models. Results The discrimination of PredictCBC-2.0 at 10 years was higher than PredictCBC with an AUC of 0.65 (95% prediction intervals (PI) 0.56–0.74) versus 0.63 (95%PI 0.54–0.71). PredictCBC-2.0 was well calibrated with an observed/expected ratio at 10 years of 0.92 (95%PI 0.34–2.54). Decision curve analysis for contralateral preventive mastectomy (CPM) showed the potential clinical utility of PredictCBC-2.0 between thresholds of 4 and 12% 10-year CBC risk for BRCA1/2 mutation carriers and non-carriers. Conclusions Additional genetic information beyond BRCA1/2 germline mutations improved CBC risk prediction and might help tailor clinical decision-making toward CPM or alternative preventive strategies. Identifying patients who benefit from CPM, especially in the general breast cancer population, remains challenging