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Plagiarism in Ivy League graffiti: what are Brown University students ripping off?

I’ve started slogging through all the graffiti transcriptions for my next analysis (see previous post for details), and as a teaser I’m posting the data about quotes found in the Brown University corpus. Perhaps “plagiarism” is unnecessarily accusatory. Many of the pieces pull from popular culture, a frame of reference ideally shared by writer and [...]

Go to Italy, be a cobbler

“Go to Italy, be a cobbler” seems to be one of the most popular pieces of graffiti in the collection. It was Explored on Flickr in October 2007, and used on five different blogs (to date). It’s even on the mini-buttons I ordered for the book release. But Val Archambeau suggested on the Crescat Graffiti [...]