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Articles by Tara Brabazon
Wellington was once a town where espresso was dangerously pretentious, but an innovative alliance of galleries, libraries, archives and museums has helped rebrand the New Zealand city
Students¡¯ pleasure in writing is often knocked out of them by formal schooling. Blogging may become their only outlet of expression and, with a little encouragement, it is possible to reignite their love for the written word, suggests Tara Brabazon
The titles of the Open Media Series help lift Tara Brabazon above the daily grind and remind her of the need to question conventional wisdom and fight injustice
E-learning consultants invent crises and create divisions between students and teachers so they can sell their wares. Tara Brabazon analyses the rise of the digital Raj
Tara Brabazon on the cutting-edge centres that generated a new way of doing research
As with husbands, so with students. Lower the bar, as benchmarks do, and mediocre results are guaranteed, says Tara Brabazon
Many now-defunct public clocks once helped shape shared spaces. Tara Brabazon is delighted that a (digital) website is working to restore function and value to a neglected (analogue) public feature
School libraries are suffering, and even closing, as resources are cut, staff ¡®redeployed¡¯ and the internet deemed more important to learning than printed matter and professionals who can sort the wheat from the chaff. Tara Brabazon says we must fight to defend the invaluable contribution libraries make to information literacy and to an informed citizenry
Looking over the work produced by her masters students, Tara Brabazon is struck by their creativity, inspired by their enthusiasm and determination and humbled to see teaching help to change lives
The history of the CND is a reminder to academics that they have obligations above those of RAE targets and teaching outcomes, says Tara Brabazon
Muscians find it easier than academics to set their egos aside, be generous to their peers and play sidemen for a true great, argues Tara Brabazon
Tara Brabazon challenges her students to break from their reliance on Google and read Poulantzas in the original
Tara Brabazon on Peter Saville¡¯s remarkable staying power at the edge of fashion
Tara Brabazon takes a listophile¡¯s delight in a celebration of musical progress
Beware digi-evangelists and search engines, says Tara Brabazon. It is still real-life librarians, past and present, who remain the true custodians of human knowledge
Tara Brabazon is alarmed by people¡¯s growing removal from analogue life, where people are engaged with their mobile screens rather than with each other
Wikipedia reveals not the ¡®wisdom of the crowds¡¯ but the rule of the mob, argues Tara Brabazon
Although a believer in books, Tara Brabazon welcomes Amazon¡¯s wireless reading device and its potential to transform reading and researching
We¡¯re enslaved by Crazy Frog capitalism ¨C and the mobile phone is the symbol of our bondage, argues Tara Brabazon
