Technology and academic virtue: Student plagiarism through the looking glass [Book Review]
Ethics and Information Technology 6 (4):271-277 (2004)
Abstract
Plagiarism is the misuse of and failure to acknowledge source materials. This paper questions common responses to the apparent increase in plagiarism by students. Internet plagiarism occurs in a context – using the Internet as an information tool – where the relevant norms are far from obvious and models of virtue are difficult to identify and perhaps impossible to find. Ethical responses to the pervasiveness of Internet-enhanced plagiarism require a reorientation of perspective on both plagiarism and the Internet as a knowledge tool. Technological strategies to “catch the cheats” send a “don’t get caught” message to students and direct the limited resources of academic institutions to a battle that cannot be won. More importantly, it is not the right battleground. Rather than characterising Internet-enabled plagiarism as a problem generated and solvable by emerging technologies, we argue that there is a more urgent need to build the background conditions that enable and sustain ethical relationships and academic virtues: to nurture an intellectual community.Author's Profile
Reprint years
2005
DOI
10.1007/s10676-005-5606-8
My notes
Similar books and articles
The wrongs of plagiarism: Ten quick arguments.Brook J. Sadler - 2007 - Teaching Philosophy 30 (3):283-291.
How do high school students justify internet plagiarism?Dominic A. Sisti - 2007 - Ethics and Behavior 17 (3):215 – 231.
Effects of Personality and Information Technology on Plagiarism: An Iranian Perspective.Babak Sohrabi, Aryan Gholipour & Neda Mohammadesmaeili - 2011 - Ethics and Behavior 21 (5):367 - 379.
An Academic Publisher’s Response to Plagiarism.Bruce R. Lewis, Jonathan E. Duchac & S. Douglas Beets - 2011 - Journal of Business Ethics 102 (3):489-506.
Systems for the production of plagiarists? The implications arising from the use of plagiarism detection systems in UK universities for asian learners.Niall Hayes & Lucas Introna - 2005 - Journal of Academic Ethics 3 (1):55-73.
Academic plagiarism: Explanatory factors from students' perspective. [REVIEW]Jaume Sureda-Negre - 2010 - Journal of Academic Ethics 8 (3):217-232.
Self-plagiarism or appropriate textual re-use?Tracey Bretag & Saadia Mahmud - 2009 - Journal of Academic Ethics 7 (3):193-205.
Analytics
Added to PP
2009-01-28
Downloads
62 (#194,185)
6 months
2 (#301,800)
2009-01-28
Downloads
62 (#194,185)
6 months
2 (#301,800)
Historical graph of downloads
Author's Profile
Citations of this work
Social networking technology and the virtues.Shannon Vallor - 2010 - Ethics and Information Technology 12 (2):157-170.
Contract cheating: a new challenge for academic honesty?Mary Walker & Cynthia Townley - 2012 - Journal of Academic Ethics 10 (1):27-44.
Plagiarism: Words and ideas.Mathieu Bouville - 2008 - Science and Engineering Ethics 14 (3):311-322.
Pernicious virtual communities: Identity, polarisation and the web 2. [REVIEW]Mitch Parsell - 2008 - Ethics and Information Technology 10 (1):41-56.
An Analysis of Student Privacy Rights in the Use of Plagiarism Detection Systems.Bo Brinkman - 2013 - Science and Engineering Ethics 19 (3):1255-1266.
References found in this work
On the emotional character of trust.Bernd Lahno - 2001 - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 4 (2):171-189.
The impact of the internet on our moral lives in academia.Lawrence M. Hinman - 2002 - Ethics and Information Technology 4 (1):31-35.
The use and abuse of metatags.Richard A. Spinello - 2002 - Ethics and Information Technology 4 (1):23-30.