Tara Brabazon podcast

Tara asks Steve Redhead about prisons and popular culture.  Why did he take university students on prison visits?

The iPad 2 is the archetype of proto-obsolescent technology.  It embodies Thorstein Veblen's phrase 'conspicuous consumption.'  Yet there is one company that makes iPad cases built on the bookbinding…

Mick Winter talks with Tara Brabazon for the last time in the context of the MA Creative Media.  Mick and Tara review ihis dissertation process and the entire programme, connecting 'learning' with 'd…

Tara Brabazon talks with Faracy Grouse about her sonic intervention.  They discuss the challenges involved in transforming strong artefacts into strong research.

How do we open out universities to enable rather than disable?  Tara Brabazon explores options in developing a rich sensory environment to enliven a learning environment for all students.

In this sixth session for his MA Creative Media dissertation, Mick Winter and Tara Brabazon discuss how his research is to be presented.  Once the artefacts are finished, how does it link with the ex…

What is the relationship between popular and unpopular culture?  Put another way, how does one song become a chart success and others do not?  Tara talks about Ron Sexsmith's career and his new relea…

Mick and Tara talk through his complete sonic pieces that aim to create defamiliarization in patterns of thinking about politics and social change.

Faracy talks to Tara Brabazon about her upcoming sonic intervention.  She explores how remembering the analogue recofigures the place of digital platforms in our lives.

Faracy Grouse explains to Tara the development of her instruments.  She conveys how they were built and the importance of recycling and sustainability in their construction.

How did the events of September 11 impact on the media and media research?  This presentation asks if fighting fundamentalism with other fundamentalisms is the only option.

How do we explain the rise of the celebrity chef and the slow food movement?  More potently, how is the relationship between food and popular culture transforming?

Why do newspapers 'encourage' comments from their readers?  What is the point?  In this podcast, Tara talks with John Gill about his dissertation on online comment cultures.

What happens to the analogue in a digital world?  Faracy Grouse and Tara Brabazon, in this sixth session exploring Faracy's dissertation topic, asks why she is crafting analogue sonic objects.  And w…

In this fourth podcast, Mick and Tara discuss the structure and arguments to be expressed in his dissertation.  We explore how and why sound creates social change.

Faracy 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.

A 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 …

Faracy Grouse and Tara Brabazon explore the function of disconnection from digital environments. 

Mick 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…

Tara 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.