Tara Brabazon
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Tara Brabazon is Professor of Communication at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada. Born in Perth
, Western Australia
, she was previously the Professor of Media at the University of Brighton, Associate Professor of Media, Communication and Culture at Murdoch University in Australia
and held lectureships at the Victoria University of Wellington
in Aotearoa
/New Zealand
.
A specialist in online education, popular culture and cultural history, she has published ten books. Her best known monographs are Digital Hemlock: internet education and the poisoning of teaching (2002) and The University of Google (2007), which both focus on building an information scaffold for students managing the information age. She has also written extensively on popular culture, including Thinking Popular Culture (2008) and in 2005, published From Revolution to Revelation: Generation X, Popular Culture, Popular Memory and edited Liverpool of the South Seas: Perth and its popular music. Calling attention to the interplay between nation, identity, representation and popular culture, Tracking the Jack: a retracing of the Antipodes (2000) and Playing on the Periphery: sport, memory and identity (2006), investigate the historical iterations of culture and iconography between the United Kingdom and the Antipodes. More recently, The Revolution will not be downloaded: dissent in the digital age was published in January 2008, and Thinking Pop: war, writing and terrorism was being published by Ashgate in June 2008.
A finalist for Australian of the Year
in 2005, she has also won awards for postgraduate supervision, disability education and teaching excellence. In 1998, Brabazon received the Australian Award for University Teaching (Humanities). She is also a public commentator on cultural and political issues, and was a features writer for the Times Higher Education (THE). She has previously published feature articles in both The Times
and The Guardian
.
Brabazon is also director of the Popular Culture Collective, a nonprofit community organization whose stated goals are to "create thinking - and thoughtful - popular culture."
She is married to Steve Redhead
, Professor of Legal Studies at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. They live in Oshawa.
She received some media and online coverage for 'banning' students on her courses from using Google
and Wikipedia
in their first year of study. Currently she is completing this argument in the third book of her Digital Hemlock trilogy, titled Digital Dieting.
Her Inaugural Address at the University of Brighton in 2008 was titled "Google is White Bread for the Mind."
Perth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
, Western Australia
Western Australia
Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...
, she was previously the Professor of Media at the University of Brighton, Associate Professor of Media, Communication and Culture at Murdoch University in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
and held lectureships at the Victoria University of Wellington
Victoria University of Wellington
Victoria University of Wellington was established in 1897 by Act of Parliament, and was a former constituent college of the University of New Zealand. It is particularly well known for its programmes in law, the humanities, and some scientific disciplines, but offers a broad range of other courses...
in Aotearoa
Aotearoa
Aotearoa is the most widely known and accepted Māori name for New Zealand. It is used by both Māori and non-Māori, and is becoming increasingly widespread in the bilingual names of national organisations, such as the National Library of New Zealand / Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa.-Translation:The...
/New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
.
A specialist in online education, popular culture and cultural history, she has published ten books. Her best known monographs are Digital Hemlock: internet education and the poisoning of teaching (2002) and The University of Google (2007), which both focus on building an information scaffold for students managing the information age. She has also written extensively on popular culture, including Thinking Popular Culture (2008) and in 2005, published From Revolution to Revelation: Generation X, Popular Culture, Popular Memory and edited Liverpool of the South Seas: Perth and its popular music. Calling attention to the interplay between nation, identity, representation and popular culture, Tracking the Jack: a retracing of the Antipodes (2000) and Playing on the Periphery: sport, memory and identity (2006), investigate the historical iterations of culture and iconography between the United Kingdom and the Antipodes. More recently, The Revolution will not be downloaded: dissent in the digital age was published in January 2008, and Thinking Pop: war, writing and terrorism was being published by Ashgate in June 2008.
A finalist for Australian of the Year
Australian of the Year
Since 1960 the Australian of the Year Award has been part of the celebrations surrounding Australia Day , during which time the award has grown steadily in significance to become Australia’s pre-eminent award. The Australian of the Year announcement has become a very prominent part of the annual...
in 2005, she has also won awards for postgraduate supervision, disability education and teaching excellence. In 1998, Brabazon received the Australian Award for University Teaching (Humanities). She is also a public commentator on cultural and political issues, and was a features writer for the Times Higher Education (THE). She has previously published feature articles in both The Times
The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...
and The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
.
Brabazon is also director of the Popular Culture Collective, a nonprofit community organization whose stated goals are to "create thinking - and thoughtful - popular culture."
She is married to Steve Redhead
Steve Redhead
Steve Redhead is Professor of Legal Studies at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. Previously, he has held professorships in the United Kingdom and a Visiting Professorship at Murdoch University in Australia...
, Professor of Legal Studies at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. They live in Oshawa.
She received some media and online coverage for 'banning' students on her courses from using Google
Google
Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
and Wikipedia
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 20 million articles have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world. Almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site,...
in their first year of study. Currently she is completing this argument in the third book of her Digital Hemlock trilogy, titled Digital Dieting.
Her Inaugural Address at the University of Brighton in 2008 was titled "Google is White Bread for the Mind."