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Research 2.0

 

Has the Internet caused a rise in plagiarism?  This question turned accusation has grown in interest and intensity since the Internet reached an audience of 10 million users in 1996.  This is about the same time that articles began to appear online warning instructors of how students could use the Internet to plagiarize such as Jane McKenzie’s now classic, “The New Plagiarism: Seven Antidotes to Prevent Highway Robbery in an Electronic Age.” 

 

While student cheating and plagiarizing has a long and well established history that predates the Internet, there is no denying that writing with technology has impacted access and use of information.  On the one hand, the positive result of writing with technology has been an increase in writing and revision.  The negative consequence has been the explosion of what some call the "cut and paste generation" faced with the ever present temptation to use the words, images, and ideas of others without proper attribution. 

The resources presented in this wiki take the perspective that the merging of technology, writing, and research has brought new opportunities for involvement, collaboration, and distribution as well as new challenges for conducting responsible research.  These challenges require one to understand what is happening online where vast amounts of information are not only accessible, but the space between users, audience, and authors has merged and blurred.  Consequently, this wiki embraces the ideas and technologies of Web 2.0 as we present responsible research resources for the GW community, or what can be called "Research 2.0."

Web 2.0 is a concept coined by Tim O'Reilly to mean the many layers and dimenions of interconnectivity now opperating on the Internet.  To help explain the concept, in 2007 Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University, made a video titled "Web 2.0, The Machine is Us/ing Us," that he released on YouTube.  The video is provided below.

 

 

 

 

Researching with Web 2.0 Tools

 

This wiki presents links to search tools that helps one research deeper into the web than simple keyword searches.  The wiki includes tools for searching text, images and videos and tools that aid in validating the credibility of sites.

 

 

This wiki was developed to accompany a workshop by the same name given by Eric Hoefler.  The wiki begins by examining how Web 2.0 is changing how we think about research.  The first part provides links to tools and the second part examines concepts such as the deep web, copyright and plagiarism, and tagging.

 

 

Organizations

 

The Digital Futures Coalition strives to find "an appropriate balance in law and public policy between protecting intellectual property and affording public access to it."  Created in 1995, this 42-member group monitors and advocates on intellectual property issues and is made up of academic and professional organization

 

Founded in 2001 as a response to the tensions caused over copyright with digital developments, this organization developed the Creative Commons License to provide creators a way to protect their work while at the same time encouraging open and creative use of it through a "some rights reserved" licensing.  In addition to explaining the Creative Commons license and proving a easy system for using it, the site also offers links to Creative Commons-licensed media

 

 

Publications

 

  • Lessig, Lawrence. (2004). Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity.

    Available online at http://www.free-culture.cc/index.html

This e-book by Lawrence Lessig, Standford law professor and new media intellectual property scholar and visionary, examines how media companies are using technology law to limit "the public domain of ideas." This e-book is available for free as a downloadable pdf file through a Creative Commons license. There is also a video of Lessig speaking about Free Culture from the 2002 O'Reilly Open Source Conference.  

 

 

 

Wikipedia 

Wikipedia, the online social networking encyclopedia, is not without its controversy.  Below are links to examples of the challenges presented with user-generated and free access content.

 

  • Nature versus Britannica over Wikipedia Accuracy
In 2005, an article was published in Nature that claimed that information found on Wikipedia was as accurate as the Encyclopedia Britannica.  Britannica printed a 20 page rebuttal on its corporate web site.  Nature responded with its own press release rebuttal.
 
  • Wikiality
This segment from a July 30, 2006 "Colbert Report" from Comedy Central brings a humorous look at the benefits and liabilites of audience-generated content.  This segment of the Cobert Report's The Word titled "Wikialityhttp://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/index.jhtml?ml_video=72347

 

 

 

 

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