Tara Brabazon podcast

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.