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http://www.australianoftheyear.gov.au/pages/bio.asp?pID=211</ref>. She also is director of the [[Popular Culture Collective]] which tries to document popular culture with academic rigor.<ref>http://popularculturecollective.com/</ref><ref>http://brabazon.net/</ref>

http://www.australianoftheyear.gov.au/pages/bio.asp?pID=211</ref>. She also is director of the [[Popular Culture Collective]] which tries to document popular culture with academic rigor.<ref>http://popularculturecollective.com/</ref><ref>http://brabazon.net/</ref>

Brabazon came to international attention after she criticized [[Wikipedia]] and [[Google]] for encouraging a lack of critical thinking in students. Brabazon banned her students from using either website and compared the sites to "white bread" as they were filling but not nutritional.<ref>http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article3182091.ece</ref>. Wikipedia responded to this by drastically increasing the size of their article on her.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tara_Brabazon&diff=185239668&oldid=171903290</ref> <ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_Brabazon</ref>

Brabazon came to international attention after she criticized [[Wikipedia]] and [[Google]] for encouraging a lack of critical thinking in students. Brabazon banned her students from using either website and compared the sites to "white bread" as they were filling but not nutritional.<ref>http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article3182091.ece</ref>. Wikipedia responded to this by drastically increasing the size of their article on her.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tara_Brabazon&diff=185239668&oldid=171903290</ref> <ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_Brabazon</ref> Professor Brabazon has also criticized Wikipedia for stifling debate and critical evaluation.<ref name=Telegraph>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/14/nuni114.xml</ref>. Her views are similar the views of [[Andrew Keen]], another Wikipedia critic. <ref name=Telegraph/>

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