Man bites dog

For your information - from the University of Brighton - and just the sort of vdeo we'd like to see posted on YouTube - surely someone recorded it?

Google is white bread for the mind - inaugural lecture from Professor Tara Brabazon

Some provocations from a mediated age

Wikipedia and user-generated content are creating an age of banality and mediocrity by providing consensual information and stifling debate. Students must be trained to be dynamic and critical thinkers rather than drifting to the first site returned through Google.

Tara Brabazon, Professor of Media Studies, will argue in a lecture on 16 January that universities must teach students to question, argue, debate and challenge, rather than accept the 'facts' from Wikipedia or the rankings of Google. more...

Source: JISC RSC