Tara Brabazon is Professor of Media at the University of Brighton, United Kingdom, director of the Popular Culture Collective, Programme Leader of the Master of Arts Creative Media, Visiting Professor at Edge Hill's SOLSTICE CETL and Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA).
She teaches first year students through to doctoral supervision. She has written and edited ten books: Thinking Popular Culture, Key Concepts in Popular Music, The Revolution Will Not Be Downloaded (editor), The University of Google, Playing on the Periphery, From Revolution to Revelation, Liverpool of the South Seas (editor), Digital Hemlock, Ladies who Lunge and Tracking the Jack. Brabazon.net provides information about Tara's profile, publications and teaching.
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008
ISBN: 9780754675297
This book is about war and popular culture, and war in popular culture. Tara Brabazon summons, probes, questions and reclaims popular culture, challenging the assumptions of war, whiteness, Christianity, modernity and progress that have dominated our lives since September 11. It is essential reading for any scholar of cultural studies and popular culture, media and journalism, creative writing and terrorism studies.
Oxford: Chandos, 2008
ISBN-13: 978-1843344605
This book attacks the often implicit and damaging assumption that "everyone" is online and that "everyone" is using online resources within the specified parameters of employers, government and national laws. Put another way, this book summons a critical Web Studies, asking not only who is using particular applications, but also how and why. This remedial work is required.
