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Prof. Dr. Debora Weber-Wulff

Debora Weber-Wulff

(c) 2022 HTW Berlin/
Alexander Rentsch

I am a professor for Media and Computing at the HTW Berlin
(Dr./she/her)

I retired at the end of March 2023, but that doesn't mean I will stop doing plagiarism research!
I will continue to teach a few hours but have no administrative duties.

I teach various media and software-oriented subjects. Projects on Internet and eLearning interest me, as well as my work on detecting and educating about plagiarism.

Check out my plagiarism FAQ, my portal with the Plagiarism Detection Software Tests, my blog about good scientific practice, and my eLearning unit "Fremde Federn Finden".

My book on plagiarism, "False Feathers: A Perspective on Academic Plagiarism" was published in 2014. I published a chapter in the "Handbook of Academic Integrity" on text-matching software in 2016.

Online I am active in the VroniPlag Wiki group, which documents plagiarism in dissertations, and in the Wikipedia project. I use the name WiseWoman in both projects. The new text comparison tool similarity-texter was produced by a student, the old one is here.

I am a founding member of Wikimedia Deutschland, there is a Wikipedia page about me and I can be found as Q1181545 on Wikidata.

I am fellow of the Gesellschaft für Informatik and a member of the GI working group "Computing and Ethics". Our second book, Gewissensbisse – Fallbeispiele zu ethischen Problemen der Informatik, was published in Open Access 2023. We blog ethical scenarios at Gewissensbits.

Information about my remote teaching experiments can be found online.

I am on Mastodon and used to be active on the bird site.

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in Zoom

(Meeting ID 731 376 8416 // 714129)

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Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft
HTW Berlin / FB 4

Postal address:
Treskowallee 8
10318 Berlin
Visiting address:
Wilhelminenhofstr. 75a
12459 Berlin
HTW E-Mail:
 weberwu@htw-berlin.de
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Current favorite quote
Machines which ape people are tending to encroach on every aspect of people's lives, and that such machines force people to behave like machines. The new electronic devices do indeed have the power to force people to "communicate" with them and with each other on the terms of the machine. Whatever structurally does not fit the logic of machines is effectively filtered from a culture dominated by their use.
The machine-like behaviour of people chained to electronics constitutes a degradation of their well-being and of their dignity which, for most people in the long run, becomes intolerable. Observations of the sickening effect of programmed environments show that people in them become indolent, impotent, narcissistic and apolitical. The political process breaks down, because people cease to be able to govern themselves; they demand to be managed.

Ivan Illich, Silence is a Commons (1982)

Address at the "Asahi Symposium Science and Man - The computer-managed Society," Tokyo, Japan (21 March 1982); as published in The CoEvolution Quarterly (Winter 1983)

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