managing intertextuality: meaning, plagiarism and power

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• managing intertextualitymeaning, plagiarism and
  power
• perry share phd, itsligo
• 2nd international plagiarism conference
• gateshead 19 June 2006

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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

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• brilliantly innovative or one of the most blatant
  acts of plagiarism ever conceived ?
• (Amazon.com)

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1 mash-up
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plagiarism or satire?

• ?

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creativity or theft?
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(someone elses) Material Girl?
Madonna
Bourdin
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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 . . .

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institutionalised plagiarism

• entertainment industry
• the commercial internet
• web 2.0

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Eurovision copying contest?
Liefde is een kaartspel Belgium 1996
Listen to your heartbeat Sweden 2001
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web of deceit?
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web 2.0
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more institutional plagiarism

• speechwriting
• ghostwriting
• photocopying
• software piracy
• academic writing
• teaching materials

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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)

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cultural appropriation
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resistances to IPR
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a moral or an ethical issue?

• theft plagiarism as stealing
• origination
• scale
• contextualisation
• disciplinary skills

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why the concern now?

• engagement
• marketisation
• technology
• communicative context

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the question of power

• what is education for?
• an instrumentalist and managerialist state
• a resolutely hierarchical system
• disciplinary power

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possibilities?
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community education

• a process of empowerment, social justice,
  change, challenge, respect and collective
  consiousness (Aontas, 2000)