The Guttenberg Case

Staats- und Gesellschaftswissenschaften

von Lucke, Jörn

The Guttenberg Case In: Marijn Janssen, Ann Macintosh, Hans Scholl, Efthimios Tambouris, Maria Wimmer, Hans de Bruijn und Yao-Hua Tan, editors. Electronic Government and Electronic Participation, Joint Proceedings of Ongoing Research and Projects of IFIP EGOV and ePart 2011

von Lucke, Jörn: The Guttenberg Case, in: Marijn Janssen, Ann Macintosh, Hans Scholl, Efthimios Tambouris, Maria Wimmer, Hans de Bruijn und Yao-Hua Tan (Hrsg.): Electronic Government and Electronic Participation, Joint Proceedings of Ongoing Research and Projects of IFIP EGOV and ePart 2011, 1. Auflage, Linz, Trauner Verlag, 2011: 56-64 (Schriftenreihe Informatik).

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Freiherr Karl Theodor zu Guttenberg was a well respected young conservative politician in Germany, who became the Federal Minister of Defense in October 2009. In 2007, he received the doctoral of law from the University of Bayreuth for his dissertation on the development of constitutional law in the United States and the European Union. In February 2011, Professor Fischer-Lescano from the University of Bremen realized that several parts of the thesis were just copied and pasted and used without references to the original authors. The minister declined this issue first. But the scientific community could prove with the help of a wiki and Google Search where and what texts he had copied for his dissertation. The university revoked his doctoral degree within a week. But the political debate continued and lead to strong protests in the scientific community including an open letter, several investigations and in the end to his resignation as Federal Minister. Web 2.0 technologies, social media and the people using them had a strong influence on these developments. The article will focus on the case, the used technologies, their effects on the political life and anticipated consequences.

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