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Your Attention is Desired

The title of Discussion

Is

Culture of Plagiarism in Journalism: Origin and Factors maintaining the trouble

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What Is Plagiarism?

The wrongful appropriation, close imitation, or purloining and publication, of another author's language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions, and the representation of them as one's own original work

(Wikipedia)

plagiarism is claiming someone else's work as one’s own without adequate attribution or credit to the original author. (Tony Rogers, 2010)

In journalism, plagiarism can take several forms: InformationWriting Ideas

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Two Dimensions of Plagiarism

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Types of Plagiarism

Verbatim or Cutting & Pasting Plagiarism copying word by word

Rewording or Paraphrased Plagiarism copying of idea or concept and rewriting in

one’s own style Self Plagiarism reusing or manipulating one’s own ideas to

claim the credit for more than once

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Who indulge in Plagiarism?

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Philosophical roots of Plagiarism?

“Cogito ergo sum”, =

“I think, therefore I am.”

Rene Descartes

Anything put forward contradictory to this spirit is Plagiarism Rene Descartes

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Information Acquiring Behavior

Willamson (1998) Ecological model modified by Williamson & Mc Gregor (2006)

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Information Acquiring Behavior (contd.)

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Culture of PlagiarismMcGrew suggests that we view culture as a process.

He lists six steps in the process:A new pattern of behavior is invented, or an existing

one is modified. The innovator transmits this pattern to another. The form of the pattern is consistent within and

across performers, perhaps even in terms of recognizable

stylistic features. The one who acquires the pattern retains the ability

to perform it long after having acquired it. The pattern spreads across social units in a

population. The pattern endures across generations.

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Culture of Plagiarism (contd.)

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Factors which are maintaining the trouble?Personal factors

Short-term benefits out of plagiaristic adventures

To win admirations/advancement, Avoid embarrassment,

punishment, or other “harms”Fear of failure & criticismPersonal pride of the journalistIt’s easier to copyAdvantage of saving time &

moneyNot understanding the ethical

issues

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Personal factors (contd.)Ignorance abouta) Copy right and copy left,b) patents, c) authentic style of crediting, d) laws against plagiarism,e) plagiarism detecting

mechanisms, andf) concerns about plagiarism

in journalism.

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Intellectual factorsInability to feel pleasure of

originality & creativity.Easy access to open sources in

the form of web pages.Acceptance and

encouragement to plagiarism in academic circles, specially in teaching learning process.

Absence of organized supervision mechanism of maintaining intellectual integrity.

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Professional factorsCorporate culture and High

stakes for the organization. Common industry practices.Not thinking through the

consequences.Lack of sensitivity towards

others hard work.Notion of first and fast as

winning combination in media industry.

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What is the way-out?Developing non plagiaristic values at

personal and social levels resulting in Plagiarism free culture. Remembering it won’t be easy

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Ideal conditions

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“Neither journalism nor public life will move forward until we actually rethink, re describe, and reinterpret what journalism is; not the science of information of our culture but its poetry and conversation.”—James Carey, Kettering Review, 1992

www.nmsu.edu/~journali/documents/mc7e_pp-ch14.ppt

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REFERENCES:

Brian Hansen(2003) Combating Plagiarism. C Q Researcher, Sept.19,2003, volume 13, No.32.

Setiono Sugiharto (2010) A culture of plagiarism. Retrieved on Aug.1,2010.

www.asianewsnet.net/news.php?id=10164&sec=3

Stanley Fish (Aug. 9,2010) Plagiarism Is Not a Big Moral Deal, In New York Times, Aug.13,

2010. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/09/plagiarism-is-not-a-big-moral-deal/

Tony Roger (2010) Avoiding plagiarism in journalism. Retrieved on Aug.1,2010.

http://journalism.about.com/od/ethicsprofessionalism/a/plagiarism.htm

Blame it on the French, or How did we get here? :

www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/plagiarism/ownership.html, retrieved on Jul. 27, 2010

Williamson, K. (1998). Discovered by chance: the role of incidental learning acquisition in an ecological

model of information use. Library & Information Science Research, 20(1), 23-40.

Williamson, K. & McGregor, J.H. (2006). "Information use and secondary school students: a model for

understanding plagiarism" Information Research, 12(1) paper 288. [Available at

http://InformationR.net/ir/12-1/paper288.html]

Culture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture retrieved on Jul. 27, 2010

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