1. In Price's article, he talks about how to properly cite and credit and he brings this in junction with conversations/discussions. At one point he talks about citing conversations in your essay or in your notes if the person you were talking with helping your ideas exponentially or said something that could contribute to your ideas. In a classroom where open discussion is encouraged and ideas are constantly being bounced back and forth and reworked, do you see citing conversations in your essay as something feasible? Or do you see open conversations as something that doesn't need to be officially cited? Is there a middle ground?
2. Lessig's Remix Intro highlights a new kind of art coming into the scene, something we see everyday, especially in music. With the sampling of other artists and taking works and completely remixing them, where do you see the line between stealing old work from another artist and creating an entirely new and original piece? That also begs the question, can art be called "original" if we are constantly basing our work off of other artists or bringing in prior knowledge?
Liana,
ReplyDeleteI too have issues with this part of Price’s argument. I feel like in the collaborative environment there is too much going on to accurately keep up with everything that is being said, I believe that this would lead to incorrect attribution. Moreover, I think that acknowledgement of contributions made to student’s work is worthy of dialog and explanation in a classroom, but I do not feel that it is something that freshman students should be focused on. Do not get me wrong, I see the value of acknowledging those that may have discussed through ideas or offered a better direction for a paper I am working on. However, I see this as something that should be done in upper level, graduate and professional papers.
Hey Liana,
ReplyDeleteI don't see conversations as feasible for citing. Not to mention, it seems kind of silly as unless you recorded the conversation, there's really nothing for the citation to refer back to. Perhaps the middle ground you're looking for would be for the writer to acknowledge that they did indeed get the idea from a conversation with classmates. I have seen professors do this when they credit an entire class that helped them find an error or help their work in some other way. So either saying in passing within the article that you developed the ideas in a class, or saying it in a footnote, it may still be respectful (in addition to lending you credibility) to admit that it wasn't fully your idea. On the other hand, if you develop or alter deep ideas in some long conversation, perhaps they specifically do deserve credit - either in mention, citation, or in an acknowledgments section. As long as you don't try to be specific about the ideas that they helped you with (which, again, unless you had a recording would be a somewhat useless pain) then this should be easy enough to accomplish respectfully.