Tara Brabazon podcast
757 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsTara Brabazon explores popular culture and education, and the relationship between them.
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Episodes
Faracy brings analogue back
March 09, 2011 13:09 - 11 minutes - 16 MBFaracy Grouse, in this her fifth dissertation session with Tara Brabazon, states why she remains facinated by the analogue and what it can offer to humanities education.
Sample questions for a PhD oral examination
March 09, 2011 11:45 - 7 minutes - 10.9 MBA PhD oral examination is one of the most stressful events in academic life. But oral examinations have a shape. In this podcast, Tara presents the ten questions that often start or conclude a PhD exam.
Faracy does unplugged living
March 04, 2011 15:13 - 12 minutes - 17.7 MBFaracy Grouse and Tara Brabazon explore the function of disconnection from digital environments.
Mick and Tara think about social semiotics
March 04, 2011 14:23 - 19 minutes - 26.3 MBMick Winter and Tara Brabazon explore Gunther Kress and Robert Hodge's Social Semiotics. They ponder the nature of resistance and social change. Most importantly, they explore the function of sound and sonic social semiotics.
John Gill introduces theories of community
February 26, 2011 19:43 - 13 minutes - 18 MBTara talks with John Gill about his dissertation on the comment culture in online fora. Theories of community and otherness are discussed, along with the consequences of anonymity.
We have never been postmodern
February 26, 2011 19:10 - 18 minutes - 25.8 MBTara talks with Steve Redhead about his new book, We have never been postmodern. They discuss the nature of politics and theory in the contemporary social sciences and the humanities and the currency of post/modernity in higher education.
Faracy Grouse and unplugged moments
February 26, 2011 18:40 - 4 minutes - 6.82 MBFaracy and Tara discuss the key theorists for the building of her analogue and ephemeral instruments. Particularly she investigates the concept of randomness and unplugged moments.
John Gill prepares for his MA Creative Media dissertation
February 18, 2011 08:49 - 19 minutes - 26.2 MBTara talks to John Gill as he prepares to write his MA Creative Media dissertation.
Faracy Grouse and Tara Brabazon explore the nature of an exegesis
February 18, 2011 06:43 - 11 minutes - 15.5 MBIn this second podcast investigating Faracy's MA dissertation exploring analogue instruments, she discusses with Tara the nature of an exegesis and its relationship with artefacts.
Mick Winter, sonic media and the politics of sound
February 13, 2011 12:42 - 14 minutes - 20.3 MBThis podcast is the second in the series where Mick Winter and Tara Brabazon talk about his dissertation. In this week's podcast, Mick and Tara discuss the politics of sound and the role of sound in Mick's research.
Earth, wind, sun and water: Faracy Grouse and her MA Dissertation
February 08, 2011 15:09 - 10 minutes - 14.1 MBFaracy Grouse introduces her MA Creative Media dissertation. Faracy is building instruments to be played by earth, wind, sun and water. She probes the value of 'the analogue' in digital times.
Car alarm corrections
February 06, 2011 18:35 - 11 minutes - 15.1 MBSome errors are more than errors. This podcast explores what particular stylistic flaws mean for the academics who find them.
Dissertation Orientation Session
February 06, 2011 17:33 - 18 minutes - 25 MBMick Winter and Tara Brabazon conduct an orientation session on how to commence a dissertation for a Masters-level programme.
Mick Winter selects the topic of his MA dissertation
January 31, 2011 12:19 - 19 minutes - 26.6 MBMick Winter explores possible dissertation topics in the MA Creative Media programme. He also offer comments about the motivations for learning and returning to learning.
Disability and New Media
January 25, 2011 12:20 - 26 minutes - 36.5 MBTara talks to Dr Mike Kent and Dr Katie Ellis about their new book Disability and New Media. What is the current state of play in thinking about social media and social justice?
Klout or Community?
January 23, 2011 14:05 - 10 minutes - 14.3 MBKlout has been a big mover in social media during the early stages of 2011. But what is the value of Klout for academics and universities?
Change we need? Moving from information obesity to digital dieting
January 17, 2011 10:49 - 34 minutes - 47 MBTara applies Harold Innis's Bias of Communication to create methods and models to move students and citizens from information obesity to digital dieting.
Watch the shadows
January 12, 2011 15:33 - 11 minutes - 16.1 MBIs seeing believing? How can new visual media platforms challenge students to reconfigure and reimagine their environment?
60 seconds of scholarship
January 06, 2011 10:16 - 7 minutes - 10.5 MBSome universities are using podcasts for innovative functions, encompassing both marketing and research dissemination. Tara explores some of these strategies.
An impression of power
January 06, 2011 09:35 - 8 minutes - 11.3 MBTara 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.
Scholars in space
January 04, 2011 13:57 - 13 minutes - 18.4 MBTalk 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.
Zombie Academy
January 02, 2011 07:07 - 9 minutes - 13.2 MBWhat is the difference between popular cultural history and historical popular culture? Tara Brabazon explores how history is consumed.
Andreas Masouras discusses content diversity
December 17, 2010 12:09 - 6 minutes - 8.45 MBTara 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.
The podcasting librarian
November 25, 2010 16:23 - 38 minutes - 52.7 MBThis 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.
Matt Ingram reveals the artefacts to be used in his research on social media in education
November 16, 2010 16:22 - 5 minutes - 7.89 MBMatt 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.
Writing the difference
November 16, 2010 15:39 - 4 minutes - 6.02 MBHow can we help students develop writing skills for different audiences?
Nick Dunn talks through his crowdsourcing project
November 09, 2010 09:07 - 7 minutes - 10.9 MBNick Dunn discusses with Tara Brabazon the developments in his crowdsourcing project. When music becomes a service, rather than a product, how is it funded?
Matt Ingram discusses his social media marketing project
November 09, 2010 08:30 - 6 minutes - 8.65 MBMatt Ingram discusses the development of his social media marketing project. Why are organizations and businesses moving to social media?
Aca-Journo?
November 04, 2010 11:15 - 36 minutes - 49.6 MBWhat is the relationship between academics and journalists? Can the Web 2.0 environment create closer relationships between these professions?
Abigail Edwards describes the experience of completing the Master of Arts Creative Media
October 26, 2010 09:13 - 4 minutes - 6.61 MBAbigail Edwards talks with Tara Brabazon about the experience of graduate education.
Matt, Nick and Tara discuss 'The Great Reset'
October 20, 2010 08:55 - 9 minutes - 12.8 MBMatt Ingram, Nick Dunn and Tara Brabazon explore 'The Great Reset' - the changing relationship between work and leisure, production and consumption.
The sound of a librarian
October 17, 2010 13:18 - 21 minutes - 29 MBTara Brabazon explores how librarians can use sound, and in particular podcasting, in their professional lives.
Going Gaga
October 16, 2010 05:54 - 9 minutes - 13.5 MBTara Brabazon explores the value of popular cultural studies as a way to subvert the (easy) justifications of education, beyond 'art' and 'industry.' Lady Gaga dances her way to this different future.
Matt Ingram: an introduction to his dissertation
October 09, 2010 15:48 - 2 minutes - 3.51 MBTara Brabazon talks with Matt Ingram about his MA Creative Media Dissertation. Matt asks how the new economic environment - post the credit crunch - has transformed content, context and marketing
Dead media
October 03, 2010 12:24 - 15 minutes - 21.2 MBWhat happens when new media become old media, and old media becomes redundant? Tara Brabazon explores the honesty of dead media in understanding the economic, social and environmental consequences of obsolescence.
Nick Dunn: An introduction to his dissertation
October 02, 2010 14:05 - 3 minutes - 5.07 MBTara Brabazon talks with Nick Dunn about his MA Creative Media dissertation. He is exploring the use of social media to advertise remixing applications for the iPhone.
Final thoughts with Boniswa
September 30, 2010 03:40 - 5 minutes - 7.9 MBTara Brabazon talks with Boniswa Vaz Contreiras at the end of her candidature, just before her journey back to Angola.
From social media to academia.edu
September 24, 2010 15:25 - 11 minutes - 16.2 MBHow can teachers and learners use social media for teaching and learning, rather than socializing?
How to fail a PhD
September 24, 2010 15:11 - 24 minutes - 33.2 MBTara Brabazon uses her expertise as both a supervisor and examiner to show how to fail - and indeed how to pass - a Doctor of Philosophy
Part two of a distance education orientation with Mick Winter
September 12, 2010 08:40 - 38 minutes - 52.8 MBMick Winter and Tara Brabazon present an orientation for distance education students. This is the second part of the orientation, where Mick asks his key questions about how to manage a distance education MA degree.
A distance education orientation with Mick Winter
September 11, 2010 07:23 - 11 minutes - 16.4 MBTara Brabazon talks with Mick Winter about his experience and advice for distance education students enrolled in a graduate degree.
Inspiration and aspiration
September 02, 2010 08:21 - 9 minutes - 13.7 MBTara Brabazon talks with students from the University of Cape Town, exploring their inspirations and aspirations.
Beyond world standards
August 26, 2010 15:03 - 13 minutes - 18.9 MBHow do we value and assess research 'impact'?
The cultural studies can(n)on
August 26, 2010 14:29 - 4 minutes - 5.89 MBTara Brabazon explores the relationship between cultural studies and E.P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class.
Cascading memory
August 25, 2010 15:48 - 11 minutes - 15.1 MBWhat makes popular culture popular? Thinking about The Cascades' "Rhythm of the Rain," Tara Brabazon explores why particular songs become much more than a temporary success on the charts and travel through place and time.
Tara Brabazon discusses with Boniswa Vaz Contreiras Angolan postcolonialism through education
August 16, 2010 10:56 - 15 minutes - 20.9 MBBoniswa discusses how postcolonialism is activated in Angola, with attention to the city imaging of Luanda and education.
Tara Brabazon talks with Ana Kvalheim about liminal spaces and identities
July 28, 2010 07:56 - 8 minutes - 11.4 MBTara Brabazon talks with Ana Kvalheim about her MA Creative Media dissertation about liminal spaces and identities.
Laura Nuevo talks to Tara Brabazon about her research into online infidelity
July 28, 2010 07:00 - 7 minutes - 10.3 MBLaura Nuevo talks to Tara Brabazon about her research into online infidelity. This project is the basis of her Master of Arts Creative Media dissertation.
The sound of education
July 16, 2010 05:33 - 22 minutes - 30.3 MBAt a recent Teaching and Learning conference at Middlesex University, Tara Brabazon discussed with staff their use of sound in education.
Laura Kinsella: media literacy, the flip and ethnography
June 22, 2010 02:35 - 6 minutes - 8.49 MBLaura Kinsella discusses her MA Creative Media with Tara Brabazon. She is particularly interested in how the Flip camera, by using media literacy theory, can moderate and mitigate some of the ethical challenges of visual ethnography.