Plagiarism, or a generational shift towards "magpie writing"?

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'Some students, it seems, have shrugged off the old illusion of authorship in which “authors had a moral right to their own words and ideas” and have embraced instead “an ever-changing version of a self” involving “flexible social interaction and creative collaboration.” Authorship in this world is collaborative and “fluid.” It “celebrates the kind of creativity that comes from selecting, from accumulating a pastiche, a patchwork, a sample of others’ work.” [Susan] Blum invokes Facebook, Second Life, Wikipedia, Open Source software, YouTube, Flickr, iPods, and sampling in popular music as evidence of this de-authored world.'

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