[ecrea] CFP Plagiarism and Digital Culture

The
MediaCommons Front Page Collective welcomes responses to the survey
question: How does digital culture affect and/or reimagine the concept
of plagiarism?

Much
of the conversation in the chronicle and other academic venues would
lead one to believe that plagiarism is (and might always have been) an
arms race where technology offers opportunities both for students to be
more creative in plagiarism and teachers to be more adept at finding
it. Likewise, while many courses discuss plagiarism either in class or
on the syllabus, plagiarism continues, with students occasionally even
turning in their own professor’s
work.
This survey is interested in ways in which plagiarism tools do/do not
function to locate plagiarism, but also in how digital culture calls
into question issues of what plagiarism means or how students and
teacher see plagiarism in a digital age. Likewise, the discussion of
plagiarism within academia is different but shares similarities with
discussions of copyright. We welcome survey responses on experiences,
projects, and theorizations on plagiarism and digital media.

Responses
may include:

*

Class
lessons on plagiarism that would be useful
*

Discussions
of how plagiarism is handled in your classes
*

Changes
in institutional perspectives on plagiarism
*

Discussions
of how digital culture as it stands influences student perspectives on
plagiarism


The
project will run from March
3rd through March 21st.
Responses are 400-600 words and typically focus on introducing an idea
for larger discussion, with the idea that interested individuals will
read responses daily. Proposals may be brief (a few sentences) and
should state your topic and approach. You may submit as an individual
or offer up a special cluster of responses with others. Submit
proposals to (mediacommons.odu /at/ gmail.com)
by February
15th to
be considered for inclusion in this project.

In
case you are unfamiliar with MediaCommons, we are an experimental
project created in 2006 by Drs. Kathleen Fitzpatrick and Avi Santo,
seeking to envision how a born-digital scholarly press might
re-conceptualize both the processes and end-products of scholarship.
MediaCommons was initially developed in collaboration with the
Institute for the Future of the Book through a grant from the MacArthur
Foundation and is currently supported by New York University’s Digital
Library Technology Services through funding from the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The site
regularly receives tens of thousands of unique readers a month.

http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/


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