http://www.edtags.org/ http://www.edtags.org/css/EdTags.jpghttp://www.edtags.org/bookmarks.php/all/authorship Recent bookmarks posted to Edtags.org 60 http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3160&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en Academic cheating and dishonesty have long been a problem. But with YouTube students have discovered a new avenue for actually promoting such fraud. Liz Losh, a rhetorician at the University of California at Irvine, notes that there’s now a genre of videos that combine cheating advice with a “do-it-yourself aesthetic.” She flagged one of them Wednesday on her blog. It shows a student using a scanner and photo-editing software to make a cheat sheet on a Coke bottle. katiebda Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:39:12 +0000 july08 authorship story youtube cheating http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3136&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en Publishers see Web sites like Textbook Torrents, which offer free downloads of textbooks without authorization, as part of a growing problem of piracy that could potentially threaten their industry. But the founder of Textbook Torrents calls his actions “civil disobedience” against “the monopolistic business practices” of textbook publishers. katiebda Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:45:02 +0000 july08 authorship story http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2999&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en Despite the worries of their parents (and professors), teenagers’ use of language online is surprisingly sophisticated. That’s the conclusion of two researchers from the University of Toronto, who looked at spoken and IM communications of 72 people ages 15 to 20. Instant messaging represented, they said, “an expansive new linguistic renaissance.” katiebda Thu, 15 May 2008 18:47:48 +0000 may08 youth authorship research http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2945&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en A professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law has created a nifty blog for students to hash out a debate about a fictional copyright-infringement case. katiebda Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:13:41 +0000 april08 authorship copyright http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2534 One hallmark of the new site will be the ability of users to “remix” content posted to Pronetos by others (with everyone involved getting proper credit, one hopes), creating new, custom publications that Pronetos will then market, with all editors and authors sharing in any revenues. katiebda Sat, 10 Nov 2007 21:47:58 +0000 authorship ownership story social networking november07 http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2497 Anyone can add to Wikipedia, the popular online encylopedia, but whether a submission survives is determined entirely by its global community of users — and apparently those users are tougher graders than college professors. katiebda Sat, 27 Oct 2007 23:41:01 +0000 october07 story wikipedia authorship http://www.ugcprinciples.com/index.html Leading commercial copyright owners (“Copyright Owners”) and services providing user-uploaded and user-generated audio and video content (“UGC Services”) have collaborated to establish these Principles to foster an online environment that promotes the promises and benefits of UGC Services and protects the rights of Copyright Owners. katiebda Sat, 20 Oct 2007 04:44:14 +0000 october07 ownership authorship news http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2426 According to K.G. Schneider, a librarian, in CIO, Wikipedia’s “inclusionists” (who argue that the site should continue to encourage new entries) and its “deletionists” (who advocate cutting articles deemed fatuous or picayune) are now engaged in a pitched battle. katiebda Thu, 04 Oct 2007 04:38:29 +0000 wikipedia authorship quality october07 participation http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/16/AR2007091601699.html?nav=rss_email/components On Wikipedia, everyone can be an editor, and every day thousands of them are engaging in fierce battles over the life stories of the 2008 presidential candidates. Wikipedia's founding principle is that everyone has something to contribute. And in a way, the site represents both what's good (collective knowledge) and what's potentially dangerous (rampant anonymity). katiebda Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:57:20 +0000 authorship collective intelligence story september07 participation wikipedia politics http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2007/08/16/schools_broaden_efforts_to_stop_piracy/?rss_id=Boston Globe -- Education As the school year approaches, several Boston-area colleges are intensifying efforts to prevent illegal downloading on campus, including hosting sessions on the perils of pirating and offering students free, legal means of getting songs. trustteam Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:48:20 +0000 ownership authorship copyright dowloading http://www.betanews.com/article/Illegal_Music_Downloads_Up_in_UK_Down_in_US/1185908414 A survey in the United Kingdom has shown a 7 percent increase in the number of people downloading music illegally online, while the legal music download market is slowing. In the United States, however, data from earlier this year has indicated otherwise. According to the 2007 Digital Media Survey, which was published in the UK by Entertainment Media Research and law firm Olswang, unauthorized downloading of music is at its highest level - reversing the slight decline of last year. trustteam Wed, 01 Aug 2007 20:36:05 +0000 authorship ownership copyright http://screens.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/07/30/its-tricky/ Political “dirty tricks” have been around since well before Donald Segretti was on the scene; but now they are emerging in the world of new media. To cite one recent example, there was the Web video that merged Hillary Clinton and “1984.” Is Web video, with its relative anonymity, the new home for dirty tricks? trustteam Wed, 01 Aug 2007 02:47:55 +0000 ethics politics web video user-generated content authorship identity http://many.corante.com/archives/2007/06/27/knowledge_access_as_a_public_good.php The Internet - and Wikipedia - change the rules for distribution and production. It means that those with knowledge do not have to retreat to the ivory towers to share what they know. It means that individuals who know something can easily share it, even when they are not formally declared as experts. It means that those with editing skills can help the information become accessible, even if they only edit occasionally. katiebda Fri, 06 Jul 2007 23:00:15 +0000 june07 empowerment wikipedia authorship participation credibility http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/magazine/01WIKIPEDIA-t.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5070&en=72637d907b6d73b4&ex=1183867200&emc=eta1 Interviews with youth Wikipedia administrators. Interesting perspectives on authorship and participation. trustteam Mon, 02 Jul 2007 21:01:38 +0000 participation ownership authorship wikipedia youth ethics bias media information news http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070615-copyright-coalition-piracy-more-serious-than-burglary-fraud-bank-robbery.html NBC/Universal general counsel Rick Cotton suggests that society wastes entirely too much money policing crimes like burglary, fraud, and bank-robbing when it should be doing something about piracy instead. "Our law enforcement resources are seriously misaligned," Cotton said. "If you add up all the various kinds of property crimes in this country, everything from theft, to fraud, to burglary, bank-robbing, all of it, it costs the country $16 billion a year. But intellectual property crime runs to hundreds of billions [of dollars] a year." Cotton's comments come in Paul Sweeting's report on Hollywood's latest shenanigans on Capitol Hill. trustteam Fri, 29 Jun 2007 21:21:22 +0000 authorship ownership copyright