Although many scholars have engaged with questions about plagiarism and knowledge sharing within university classrooms, few have considered how cultural uses of recently developed technologies may call traditional academic values about knowledge ownership into question. To highlight issues of knowledge sharing in new times, this thesis presents findings from a survey of first-year composition students and their instructors. The survey presented participants with scenarios about traditional academic situations, new media academic situations, and non-academic situations, and asked participants to consider how ethically the characters behaved. Building on recent scholarship on plagiarism and knowledge sharing, this study found that many students do not understand the contextual nature of knowledge sharing values and struggle to apply them outside of traditional academic contexts.
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