PLAGIARISM
The Citation Project: Preventing Plagiarism, Teaching Writing. http://citationproject.net/
This mult-institution project includes ongoing research and the collection of descriptive data to delve into the complexities of plagiarism as it exists in college culture in order to better understand the phenomenon beyond its legal definition. The site includes details of the project, research questions, and an excellent bibliography.
Blum, Susan D. My Word! Plagiarism and College Culture. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2009.
The author is a professor of Anthropology at Notre Dame and shares here the results of 3 years of ethnographic research of plagiarism. Her findings verified some of her theories and challenged others. The book includes insights from students about how their lives have been arranged and orchestrated to maximize activity and achievement and how this social conditioning powerfully influenced their decisions in regard to academic work.
SOCIAL MEDIA
“How to Explain Memes to Your Parents.” Offbook: Visual Culture Online. Produced by Kornhaber Brown: PBS Arts.
http://memebase.com/2011/08/17/memes-how-to-explain-memes-to-your-parents/
(“Kornhaber Brown is a web video production company that combines the beauty and craftsmanship of the feature film world with the brevity, joy and immediacy of web videos.”)
Jenkins, Henry. Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. New York: NYU Press, 2006.
Jenkins, Henry. Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century: MIT Press, 2009
Li, Charlene and Josh Bernoff. Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2011.
Shirky, Clay. Here Comes Everybody. New York: Penguin, 2008.
TECHNOLOGY
Baron, Dennis. A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution. New York: Oxford UP, 2009.
K-12
This New York Times article by Sam Dillon describes the dramatic turn-around of a school district of 4100 students in Massachusetts since 1993 after the school, facing .. decided to focus on reading and writing across the curriculum rather than teach to the tests as so many districts have elected to do. Over time, this focus led to marked improvement in student performance on assessments
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/28/education/28school.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=education
