Quantifying academic integrity: Turnitin and negotiated ethics in higher education in Turkey

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dc.contributor.authorNuhrat, Yagmur
dc.date.accessioned2026-04-04T18:55:43Z
dc.date.available2026-04-04T18:55:43Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.departmentİstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractThe similarity/plagiarism detection software Turnitin's 'similarity score' has come to constitute a singularly reliable measure of academic integrity. By focusing on the case of Turkey, I describe how this quantification is facilitated by the spread and normalization of platformization in higher education, itself a component of the increasingly neoliberal academic field. I argue that such quantification both posits academic integrity as a technicality to manage and simultaneously engenders novel ethical negotiations. Quantification and its related skillsets modify one's relations to their writing(-self) by severing the bond between originality and integrity. At the same time, academic integrity acquires new (and negotiated) content through practices around the use of Turnitin. I trace these negotiations in interlocutor discourses on Turnitin hacks, literature reviews and academic fraud. My approach is informed by the 'ethical turn' in anthropology of the 2010s.
dc.description.sponsorshipIstanbul Bilgi University - Scientific Research Fund
dc.description.sponsorshipThe work was supported by the Istanbul Bilgi University - Scientific Research Fund.
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/17508487.2025.2461480
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/17508487.2025.2461480
dc.identifier.issn1750-8487
dc.identifier.issn1750-8495
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85217187027
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2025.2461480
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11411/10540
dc.identifier.wosWOS:001415062600001
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ1
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherRoutledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd
dc.relation.ispartofCritical Studies in Education
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.snmzKA_WoS_20260402
dc.snmzKA_Scopus_20260402
dc.subjectTurnitin
dc.subjectQuantification
dc.subjectEthical Negotiation
dc.subjectHigher Education
dc.subjectPlatformization
dc.subjectNeoliberalism
dc.subjectTurkey
dc.titleQuantifying academic integrity: Turnitin and negotiated ethics in higher education in Turkey
dc.typeArticle

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