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TURNITIN? TURNITOFF: The Deskilling of Information Literacy

Author(s) -

Tara Brabazon

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

turkish online journal of distance education

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1309-4564

pISSN - 1302-6488

DOI - 10.17718/tojde.55005

Subject(s) - deskilling , information literacy , literacy , business , computer science , sociology , world wide web , pedagogy , engineering , work (physics) , mechanical engineering

Plagiarism is a folk devil into which is poured many of the challenges, problems and difficulties confronting higher education. This article investigates how software -Turnitin in particular- is ‘solving’ a particular ‘crisis’ in universities. However, I investigate how alternative strategies for the development of information literacy offer concrete, productive and imaginative trajectories for university staff and students.

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