[Asis-l] Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age

Tue Aug 3 15:42:18 EDT 2010

Of some interest is an article, "Plagiarism of print and electronic
resources," published in the *Encyclopedia of Library and Information
Sciences* (ELIS 3rd, Bates and Maack, Eds). ELIS is available online. NY:
Taylor & Francis, Jan 2010.

Zorana Ercegovac

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Gerry McKiernan <gerrymckiernan at live.com>wrote:

>  [snip]
>
> TRIP GABRIEL / August 1, 2010 / NYTimes
>
> [snip]
>
> Professors used to deal with plagiarism by admonishing students to give
> credit to others and to follow the style guide for citations, and pretty
> much left it at that.
>
> But these cases — typical ones, according to writing tutors and officials
> responsible for discipline at the three schools who described the plagiarism
> — suggest that many students simply do not grasp that using words they did
> not write is a serious misdeed
>
> It is a disconnect that is growing in the Internet age as concepts of
> intellectual property, copyright and originality are under assault in the
> unbridled exchange of online information, say educators who study
> plagiarism.
>
> Digital technology makes copying and pasting easy, of course. But that is
> the least of it. The Internet may also be redefining how students — who came
> of age with music file-sharing, Wikipedia and Web-linking — understand the
> concept of authorship and the singularity of any text or image.
>
> [snip]
>
> Ms. Brookover, who works at the campus library, has pondered the
> differences between researching in the stacks and online.
>
> “Because you’re not walking into a library, you’re not physically holding
> the article, which takes you closer to ‘this doesn’t belong to me,’ ” she
> said. Online, “everything can belong to you really easily.”
>
> In an interview, ... [Susan D. Blum University of Notre Dame anthropologist
> ... and author of "Word!: Plagiarism and College Culture" [Cornell Universiy
> Press, 2009],  said the idea of an author whose singular effort creates an
> original work is rooted in Enlightenment ideas of the individual. It is
> buttressed by the Western concept of intellectual property rights as secured
> by copyright law. But both traditions are being challenged.
>
> [snip]
>
> In an interview, she said the idea of an author whose singular effort
> creates an original work is rooted in Enlightenment ideas of the individual.
> It is buttressed by the Western concept of intellectual property rights as
> secured by copyright law. But both traditions are being challenged.
>
> [more]
>
> A few years ago I gave a keynote at the 3rd International Plagiarism
> Conference / 23 - 25 June 2008 / City Campus East, Northumbria University  /
> Newcastle-upon-tyne, UK /
>
> "Disruptive Scholarship: An Idea Whose Time Has Come: (Re)Use / (Re)Mix /
> (Re)New"
>
> Abstract
>
> Hadrian's Wall is a stone and turf fortification built by the Roman Empire
> across the width of modern-day England. ... [It was] 117 kilometres long,
>
> ... [I]ts width and height [were] dependent on the construction materials
> [that] ... were available nearby.
>
> ... [T]he wall in the east follow[ed] the outcrop of a hard, resistant
> igneous diabase rock escarpment ... Local limestone was used in the
> construction, except for ... section[s] in the west ... where turf was used
> instead ... .
>
> The Broad Wall was initially built with a clay-bonded rubble core and
> mortared dressed rubble facing stones, but this seems to have made it
> vulnerable to collapse, and repair with a mortared core was sometimes
> necessary.... [I]n time ... [Hadrian's] Wall was abandoned and fell into
> ruin. Over the centuries and even into the twentieth century a large
> proportion of the stone was reused in other local buildings.
>
> Throughout history, humans have (re)used local resources to create not only
> buildings and fortifications, but monuments, roads, and a wide variety of
> other structures. For countless generations, artists, composers, and writers
> have freely incorporated elements from local and  distant cultures to create
> new visual, musical, and textual forms.
>
> In The Web 2.0 World, the open (re)combination of multiple media has
> become commonplace in many venues, practices that Lawrence Lessig [snip],
> founder of Creative Commons [snip]and others, would characterize as
> emblematic of a 'Remix ' or 'Read/Write' culture. Indeed, from his point  of
> view, “the health, progress, and wealth creation of a culture is
> fundamentally tied to this participatory remix process” [snip]
>
> In the recently-released Horizon Report 2008 - a joint publication of the
> New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI),
> six emerging information technologies and practices that are expected to
> significantly impact educational organizations are profiled: Grassroots
> Video, Collaborative Webs, Mobile Broadband, Data Mashups, Collaborative
> Intelligence, and Social Operating Systems.
>
> In this presentation, we will review the Read/Write Traditions of the
> Arts, Humanities, and Sciences; analyze key Past / Present / Future
> Participatory Technologies; and explore the potential of Web 2.0 for
> creating/fostering Disruptive Learning / Scholarship / Teaching in the  21st
> century.
>
> Links To NYTimes Article And The Director's Cut of the (150+ Slides) PPT is
> available from my  _Scholarship 2.0_ blog at
>
> [ http://bit.ly/bEYvK7 ]
>
> I hope The Title and Abstract indicate that That I Have A Different View
> Of The P-Word [:-)
>
> Regards,
>
> /Gerry
>
> Gerry McKiernan
> Associate Professor
> Science and Technology Librarian
> Iowa State University Library
> Ames IA 50011
>
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