

Tara Brabazon podcast
Tara Brabazon
Tara Brabazon explores popular culture and education, and the relationship between them.
Episodes
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Jan 17, 2011 • 34min
Change we need? Moving from information obesity to digital dieting
Tara applies Harold Innis's Bias of Communication to create methods and models to move students and citizens from information obesity to digital dieting.

Jan 12, 2011 • 12min
Watch the shadows
Is seeing believing? How can new visual media platforms challenge students to reconfigure and reimagine their environment?

Jan 6, 2011 • 8min
60 seconds of scholarship
Some universities are using podcasts for innovative functions, encompassing both marketing and research dissemination. Tara explores some of these strategies.

Jan 6, 2011 • 8min
An impression of power
Tara asks what happens when Generation X assumes leadership. Can popular culture provide models for power? Thinking about Michael Winterbottom's The Trip and Kevin Smith's podcast network, Tara explores the future of old pop.

Jan 4, 2011 • 13min
Scholars in space
Talk of mobile learning underestimate the importance of time and space in education. This podcast reviews the brilliance of Harold Innis and his bias of communication.

Jan 2, 2011 • 10min
Zombie Academy
What is the difference between popular cultural history and historical popular culture? Tara Brabazon explores how history is consumed.

Dec 17, 2010 • 6min
Andreas Masouras discusses content diversity
Tara Brabazon talks with her soon-to-be completed PhD student Andreas Masouras. Andreas discusses content diversity and what communication scholars can learn from small nations.

Nov 25, 2010 • 38min
The podcasting librarian
This podcast captures Tara Brabazon's presentation for the seminar series titled "The Development of a vision for LSE library services," delivered live on November 26, 2010 at the LSE.

Nov 16, 2010 • 6min
Matt Ingram reveals the artefacts to be used in his research on social media in education
Matt Ingram's dissertation, which investigates the role of social media in leisure, work and education, will deploy artefacts and an exegesis. In this podcast, he discusses the artefacts to be used.

Nov 16, 2010 • 4min
Writing the difference
How can we help students develop writing skills for different audiences?


