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lolgfballsack'''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 [[Australia]]n Teacher of the Year in 2005.<ref>
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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 [[Australia]]n Teacher of the Year in 2005.<ref>
 
http://www.australianoftheyear.gov.au/pages/bio.asp?pID=211</ref> and 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> and 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>
  

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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] and is director of the Popular Culture Collective which tries to document popular culture with academic rigor.[2][3]

Brabazon came to international attention in January of 2008 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 increasing the size of their article on her.[5] Professor Brabazon has also criticized Wikipedia for stifling debate and critical evaluation.[6]. Her views are similar to the views of Andrew Keen, another Wikipedia critic. [6]

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