Stefan Weber
- January 4, 2024
- Media Scholar
Quick Facts
| Full Name | Stefan Weber |
| Occupation | Media Scholar |
| Date Of Birth | Jun 14, 1970(1970-06-14) |
| Age | 54 |
| Birthplace | Salzburg |
| Country | Austria |
| Birth City | Salzburg |
| Horoscope | Gemini |
Stefan Weber Biography
| Name | Stefan Weber |
| Birthday | Jun 14 |
| Birth Year | 1970 |
| Place Of Birth | Salzburg |
| Home Town | Salzburg |
| Birth Country | Austria |
| Birth Sign | Gemini |
Stefan Weber is one of the most popular and richest Media Scholar who was born on June 14, 1970 in Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria. Stefan Weber (born 14 June 1970 in Salzburg) is an Austrian media researcher and writer. The mass media often call him “plagiarism hunter” (in German “Plagiatsjäger”).
In 2007, Weber co-authored a Google-critical study and published the book “The Google-Copy-Paste-Syndrome”.
Weber has raised allegations against several high-profile public personalities. A media sensation was created by the allegations against the then Austrian Minister for Science and Research, Johannes Hahn (see “Discussion about his PhD thesis”), in 2007, claiming that in his doctoral thesis he had “copied page per page without proper reference”.
Stefan Weber Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Media Scholar |
| House | Living in own house. |
Stefan Weber is one of the richest Media Scholar from Austria. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Stefan Weber 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
When Weber discovered in 2005 that a Tübingen theologian, in 2004, had copied approximately half of his doctoral thesis more or less verbatim from Weber’s own 1996 thesis, he launched a public media campaign to draw attention to the problem of plagiarism in academia. The Tübingen plagiarist had his doctoral degree retracted in July 2005. In addition, he received a criminal court sentence in 2007.
Weber studied journalism and communication science at the University of Salzburg and subsequently worked in Salzburg as a journalist and university lecturer. In 2005 he completed his Habilitation at the University of Vienna.
In 2011, Weber founded with Gerhard Fröhlich (University of Linz) the “Initiative Transparente Wissenschaft” (also “AntiPlag Austria”), which operates a website on Wikia. There, suspicious cases of scientific misconduct in Austria can collaboratively be dealt with.
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