What's in a copy?

I will answer the question "What's in a copy?" by considering three sets of related issues: the importance of copies in academia; in cultural life; and in the economic world. In academia the current capability of making copies is challenging pedagogical practices and the trust of its...

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Autor: Ribeiro,Gustavo Lins
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:Brasil
Institución:Associação Brasileira de Antropologia
Repositorio:Vibrant
Idioma:inglés
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Palabra clave:copy
digital era
knowledge society
imitation
plagiarism
fetishism
animism
property rights
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spelling What's in a copy?copydigital eraknowledge societyimitationplagiarismfetishismanimismproperty rightsI will answer the question "What's in a copy?" by considering three sets of related issues: the importance of copies in academia; in cultural life; and in the economic world. In academia the current capability of making copies is challenging pedagogical practices and the trust of its members, plagiarism being the most immediate problem. The notion of authorship is also undergoing changes provoked by a proliferation of authors and new possibilities opened up by cyberspace. In cultural life, imitation and mimesis have long been fundamental engines of socialization. Our enhanced capacity of copying problematizes, with new intensity, the relationships between homogeneity and heterogeneity, between the genuine and the spurious. In the economic world, the digital era is threatening some of the fundamental tenets of capitalism, especially of its variant called the "knowledge society", regarding the control of intellectual property rights. The gap between normativity and social practices is widening. The many dilemmas and tensions identified in the text are understood as symptoms of two major characteristics of the current times: hyperfetishism and hyperanimism.Associação Brasileira de Antropologia (ABA)2013-06-01info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersiontext/htmlhttp://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1809-43412013000100001Vibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology v.10 n.1 2013reponame:Vibrantinstname:Associação Brasileira de Antropologiainstacron:ABA10.1590/S1809-43412013000100001info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessengRibeiro,Gustavo Lins2013-07-29T00:00:00Zoai:scielo:S1809-43412013000100001Revistahttp://www.vibrant.org.br/https://old.scielo.br/oai/scielo-oai.phpvibrant.aba@gmail.com1809-43411809-4341opendoar:2013-07-29T00:00Vibrant - Associação Brasileira de Antropologiafalse
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title What's in a copy?
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Ribeiro,Gustavo Lins
copy
digital era
knowledge society
imitation
plagiarism
fetishism
animism
property rights
title_short What's in a copy?
title_full What's in a copy?
title_fullStr What's in a copy?
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dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Ribeiro,Gustavo Lins
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digital era
knowledge society
imitation
plagiarism
fetishism
animism
property rights
topic copy
digital era
knowledge society
imitation
plagiarism
fetishism
animism
property rights
description I will answer the question "What's in a copy?" by considering three sets of related issues: the importance of copies in academia; in cultural life; and in the economic world. In academia the current capability of making copies is challenging pedagogical practices and the trust of its members, plagiarism being the most immediate problem. The notion of authorship is also undergoing changes provoked by a proliferation of authors and new possibilities opened up by cyberspace. In cultural life, imitation and mimesis have long been fundamental engines of socialization. Our enhanced capacity of copying problematizes, with new intensity, the relationships between homogeneity and heterogeneity, between the genuine and the spurious. In the economic world, the digital era is threatening some of the fundamental tenets of capitalism, especially of its variant called the "knowledge society", regarding the control of intellectual property rights. The gap between normativity and social practices is widening. The many dilemmas and tensions identified in the text are understood as symptoms of two major characteristics of the current times: hyperfetishism and hyperanimism.
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