AWEJ Volume.4 Number.2, 2013 Pp.246- 254
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Challenges of Conducting Research in a Digital Age
Jinjin Lu
Faculty of Education, University of Tasmania,
Australia
Wei Fan
Faculty of Education, University of Tasmania
Australia.
Ruiting Wu
Faculty of Education, University of Tasmania
Australia
Abstract
Human’s lives have been changed in forms of different ways since a substantial development of the high technological appliances in the 21st century. This also includes the ways researchers conduct research by adopting the high technology tools in this era. Most people just witness the development and the substantial benefits brought to the research; however, some drawbacks could be neglected. Particularly, the plagiarism occurs when the widespread of adopting the Internet and lacking the anti- plagiarism software. This paper focuses on exploring the challenges and new directions for researchers when they conduct research in a digital age.
Keywords: digital age, plagiarism, advanced technology, multimedia, digital.