Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Juristische Fakultät

Trainer: Dr. Thorsten Beck

Date: 28.11.2019

Target Group: Candidates in all years of doctorate (open to all doctoral candidates)

OBJECTIVES

Are you working with images and want to learn what the boundaries are in changing images? We introduce you to actual cases where Image manipulation had real-world consequences. Learn in interactive exercises where potential boundaries are and discuss what should be fair in your field. We will take a look at current software that helps identifying image manipulation and explore with you how you can avoid having your own images retracted in your scholarly work.

CONTENT AND FORMAT

This workshop is interactive, including discussions and exercises. We will give you an overview to introduce you to the topic in the first part of the workshop.

We will cover the following topics:

- Defining image manipulation

- Guidelines for proper image preparation

- Quantifying image manipulation?

- Practice: test basic forensic software to detect image manipulations

- Practice and discussion: compare and contrast image manipulations across disciplines

- Q&A

- Reflection: you will individually develop a greyscale for acceptable and less acceptable image manipulation and defend it

- Review of the workshop where you can give feedback

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