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Prof. Dr. Eva Gredel is Junior Professor (with tenure track) of German Linguistics with a focus on »Digital Communication in Contexts of Mediation« at the University of Duisburg-Essen. In her habilitation thesis at the University of Mannheim, she analyzed digital discourses in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. She was a co-applicant for the research network Digilog@bw and is still involved in the research of the subproject Wikilog@bw as an associate member after her appointment at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

Dr. Maja Linthe received her PhD from Freie Universität Berlin and then worked as a freelance author and journalist. Since 2018, she has been a research associate in the Department of German Linguistics at the University of Mannheim. In her research, she is primarily concerned with the multimodality, interaction, and authenticity of texts in social media. In her teaching projects, she brings university knowledge into Wikipedia and Wikipedia know-how into the university by involving students in the collaborative production of Wikipedia articles.

Prof. Dr. Angelika Storrer has been Professor of German Linguistics at the University of Mannheim since 2014. During and after her doctorate at the University of Heidelberg, she was a research fellow at the IBM Scientific Center. She then worked as a research assistant at the University of Tübingen and later at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language in Mannheim. In 2002, she accepted a call to the TU Dortmund University, where she worked as a professor of German language and language didactics until her move to the University of Mannheim. Since the 1990s, she has been conducting research on hypertext and Internet-based communication, focusing on chat communication and the analysis of language and interaction in Wikipedia. She is co-editor of the 2012 anthology »Wikis in Schule und Hochschule« (Wikis in Schools and Universities) and has published relevant articles in handbooks and journals.

Moderator: Sabina Zweil is a research associate in the Knowledge Department at ZKM | Karlsruhe. Her focus is on the research field of artificial intelligence. She is currently working for the research project »Digitalization in Dialogue – digilog@bw«.