managing intertextuality:meaning, plagiarism and power

perry share phd, itsligo 2nd international plagiarism conference

gateshead 19 June 2006

living in an intertextual world

• the nature of contemporary communication

• the ethics of textual production• the specific nature of the academic

community• the purposes of education

brilliantly innovative or one

of the most blatant acts of plagiarism ever

conceived ?

(Amazon.com)

#1 mash-up

plagiarism or satire?

creativity or theft?

(someone else’s) Material Girl?

Madonna Bourdin

the realignment of [existing] elements in

transformative recombination (Livingston-Webber, 1999: 265)

• rap music• TV advertising• blog/zine culture • fashion• Hollywood film

• pop art• posters• T-shirts• cartoons• websites . . .

institutionalised plagiarism

• entertainment industry• the commercial internet• web 2.0

Eurovision copying contest?

Liefde is een kaartspel Belgium 1996

Listen to your heartbeat Sweden 2001

web of deceit?

web 2.0

more institutional plagiarism

speechwritingghostwritingphotocopying

software piracyacademic writing

teaching materials

intellectual property

[the law] forms an airtight protective seal around the brand, allowing it

to brand us, but prohibiting us from so much as scuffing it

(Klein, 2000: 176)

cultural appropriation

resistances to IPR

a moral or an ethical issue?

theft: plagiarism as stealingorigination

scalecontextualisationdisciplinary skills

why the concern now?

engagementmarketisation

technologycommunicative context

the question of power

• what is education for?• an instrumentalist and

managerialist state• a resolutely hierarchical system• disciplinary power

possibilities?

community education

‘a process of empowerment, social justice, change, challenge, respect

and collective consiousness’ (Aontas, 2000)