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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? Bourdin Madonna 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 speechwriting ghostwriting photocopying software piracy academic 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 stealing origination scale contextualisation disciplinary skills why the concern now? engagement marketisation technology communicative 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)