{"id":2274,"date":"2011-09-30T15:12:18","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T20:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=2274"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:11:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:11:01","slug":"agree-or-disagree-its-not-plagiarism-in-the-digital-age-its-repurposing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/30\/agree-or-disagree-its-not-plagiarism-in-the-digital-age-its-repurposing\/","title":{"rendered":"Agree or disagree: &#8220;It&#8217;s Not Plagiarism. In the Digital Age, It&#8217;s &#8216;Repurposing.'&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Uncreative-Writing\/128908\/\"><img src='http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/photo_14982_landscape_large.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The prominent literary critic Marjorie Perloff has recently begun using the term &#8220;unoriginal genius&#8221; to describe this tendency emerging in literature. Her idea is that, because of changes brought on by technology and the Internet, our notion of the genius\u00e2\u20ac\u201da romantic, isolated figure\u00e2\u20ac\u201dis outdated. An updated notion of genius would have to center around one&#8217;s mastery of information and its dissemination.<\/p>\n<p>Perloff has coined another term, &#8220;moving information,&#8221; to signify both the act of pushing language around as well as the act of being emotionally moved by that process. She posits that today&#8217;s writer resembles more a programmer than a tortured genius, brilliantly conceptualizing, constructing, executing, and maintaining a writing machine.<\/p>\n<p>via\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Uncreative-Writing\/128908\/\"> The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prominent literary critic Marjorie Perloff has recently begun using the term &#8220;unoriginal genius&#8221; to describe this tendency emerging in literature. Her idea is that, because of changes brought on by technology and the Internet, our notion of the genius\u00e2\u20ac\u201da romantic, isolated figure\u00e2\u20ac\u201dis outdated. An updated notion of genius would have to center around one&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/30\/agree-or-disagree-its-not-plagiarism-in-the-digital-age-its-repurposing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Agree or disagree: &#8220;It&#8217;s Not Plagiarism. In the Digital Age, It&#8217;s &#8216;Repurposing.&#8217;&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[497,496,499,498],"class_list":["post-2274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-chronicleofhighereducation","tag-palgiarism","tag-perloff","tag-repurposing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10098,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274\/revisions\/10098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}