Why Napster matters to writing: Filesharing as a new ethic of digital delivery

Computers and Composition

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 178-210

  DeVoss, Dànielle Nicole ^a   Porter, James E ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Delivery; Digital rhetoric; Ethics; Filesharing; Napster; Plagiarism

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646922305     PISSN: 87554615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2006.02.001     Document Type: Article

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