What exactly constitutes plagiarism in the media world? Last class, we discussed all the different types of media out there. There are videos, blogs, facebook, twitter, email, websites, essentially anything you can imagine, there's a site for it online. But I must ask the question--are all of these sites citing all of their resources? For example, broadcast news searches for their stories, and often reads them off of AP wires, but they don't always cite that source. Is that just assumed knowledge? People copy and paste videos off of YouTube and put them on their own blogs. Is that plagiarism--or not, because people know that they got it off of YouTube? And what about watching TV shows on websites not directed from the host channel?
With the media growing wider and wider today, I couldn't help but think that plagiarism and downright stealing other people's work is soon going to get out of control, but that's something we can't be overly concerned about.
We must focus on investigating the academic level. What about academic honesty in colleges? Stealing someone else's term paper and putting your own name on it is much more serious than posting a YouTube link on your website, or reading press releases off of AP wires--which brings me to my final thought; if students are cheating on such a high scale as undergrads, what will they steal when they enter the "real world"?
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My Magazine Writing class is conducting an investigation on plagiarism and college students. How many people have plagiarized? Have people witnessed plagiarism and let their friends or classmates get away with it? What constitutes plagiarism? This blog will try to answer those questions, as well as react to how the class itself is working. I will explore how the classroom is handling the investigation, both good and bad aspects. What will the conclusion be?
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