What we should take from the QR Markham plagiarism scandal
Good article, perspective. I like the lining at the end regarding the fact that readers of the plagiarized works were the first to toss up flags, not software:
There is a great deal of difference between what is knowable and what is known, and the internet has increasingly smudged that distinction. Too often, technology can become a kind of prosthetic memory. Having all of Mozart’s operas on iTunes isn’t the same as having listened to all of Mozart’s operas. “Text-mining” vast swathes of literature to discover the preponderance of the words “hope” and “happiness” in the 19th century isn’t the same as an intimate knowledge of the books, with all their ironies and enigmas. If nothing else, the sad affair of QR Markham’s patchwork thriller shows that real reading still exists – if not, perhaps, among certain publishers.
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