Tara Brabazon podcast

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 release Long Player Late Bloomer to explore how great music can become popular music.

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 what is happening with the old piano in the corner of Tara's office without any black and white keys?

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 exam.

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 and sonic social semiotics. 

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.

Tara talks with Steve Redhead about his new book, We have never been postmodern.  They discuss the nature of politics and theory in the contemporary social sciences and the humanities and the currency of post/modernity in higher education.

Faracy and Tara discuss the key theorists for the building of her analogue and ephemeral instruments.  Particularly she investigates the concept of randomness and unplugged moments. 

Tara talks to John Gill as he prepares to write his MA Creative Media dissertation.

In this second podcast investigating Faracy's MA dissertation exploring analogue instruments, she discusses with Tara the nature of an exegesis and its relationship with artefacts.

This podcast is the second in the series where Mick Winter and Tara Brabazon talk about his dissertation.  In this week's podcast, Mick and Tara discuss the politics of sound and the role of sound in Mick's research.

Faracy Grouse introduces her MA Creative Media dissertation.  Faracy is building instruments to be played by earth, wind, sun and water.  She probes the value of 'the analogue' in digital times.

Some errors are more than errors.  This podcast explores what particular stylistic flaws mean for the academics who find them.

Mick Winter and Tara Brabazon conduct an orientation session on how to commence a dissertation for a Masters-level programme.

Mick Winter explores possible dissertation topics in the MA Creative Media programme. He also offer comments about the motivations for learning and returning to learning.

Tara talks to Dr Mike Kent and Dr Katie Ellis about their new book Disability and New Media.  What is the current state of play in thinking about social media and social justice?

Klout has been a big mover in social media during the early stages of 2011.  But what is the value of Klout for academics and universities?