Posted on behalf of Dr Celia Thompson (Languages and Linguistics, Faculty of Arts):
Given the Information Futures Commission’s focus on teaching and learning in the Digital Age, I would like to propose that the Project Team include the paper entitled “Web 2.0 authorship: Issues of referencing and citation for academic integrity” as a recommended resource for academic staff.
This paper has recently been published by Dr Kathleen Gray, Dr Celia Thompson (University of Melbourne), Dr Rosemary Clerehan and Dr Judithe Sheard (Monash University) and Dr Margaret Hamilton (RMIT University),in the Internet and Higher Education journal (2008).
It raises questions concerning academic integrity in relation to current referencing and citation style guides and argues that these guides are inadequate to the task. We suggest that traditional concepts of authorship need to be reformed in order to accommodate the collaborative and multi-voiced dimensions of authorship afforded by Web 2.0 authoring tools such as wikis, blogs and social bookmarking.
Please see below for the abstract. The full paper is available.
Abstract:
Web 2.0 authoring forms such as wikis, blogs, social bookmarking, and audio and video podcasting pose a challenge to academic authorship traditions. This paper reviews the provisions made in major academic referencing and citation style guides for acknowledging content and ideas that may be published using these new web authoring forms. It offers an overview of features of web 2.0 authoring forms and explores concepts of authoring that can help academics to understand the challenges of working with these forms. It provides examples of referencing and citation in scholarly and scientific communication, and concludes that the conceptual basis of referencing and citation as expressed in current systems and standards needs reform in order to bring academic integrity to the use of these new forms of authorship.
Thanks, Celia :-)