Dear Ben,
Gig economy? Yes.
And, I would add, a game economy.
When students are able to submit essays to similarity software, such as
Turnitin, they seem to ethically distance themselves through the
impersonal communication.
That is, they have not lied to an individual; they have merely done what
the software allows them to do.
The software certifies the originality - like there is no DNA match.
There is research that points out people lie more readily over the phone
than they do face-to-face.
We even tend to diminish such lies when they are made to us.
For example, an employee rings up their boss to say they are sick.
The boss knows they are not sick, but does not accuse them of telling a
lie.
Face-to-face we tend to push back such lies even if only through body
language.
The gaming aspect is becoming more and more of a problem in my academic
life.
Students are using thesaurus software to scramble their plagiarism.
My Aspergeršs brain picks up on this, but then the institution finds
problems supporting such a forensic approach.
Unless students confess, they are often getting away with fraud.
I am aiming to do some research into student attitudes to such gaming
later in the year.
Cheers
keith
On 5/3/17, 12:20 am, "PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD
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<[log in to unmask] on behalf of [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Apropos academic writing and publishing, as part of commodification and
>globalisation of higher education (including PhD studies?), and perhaps
>even related to the on-demand, or so called gig, economy ("writing to
>order"?), this article may be of interest.
>
>BJ
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