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Tara Brabazon is a professor of media studies at the University of Brighton at Brighton & Hove in the south of England. She was a finalist for Australian Teacher of the Year in 2005.[1]. She also is director of the Popular Culture Collective which tries to document popular culture with academic rigor.[2][3]
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.[4]. Wikipedia responded to this by drastically increasing the size of their article on her.[5] [6]
References
- ↑ http://www.australianoftheyear.gov.au/pages/bio.asp?pID=211
- ↑ http://popularculturecollective.com/
- ↑ http://brabazon.net/
- ↑ http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article3182091.ece
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tara_Brabazon&diff=185239668&oldid=171903290
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tara_Brabazon