{"title":"Tara Brabazon","description":"\u003cp\u003eTara Brabazon’s work explores the intersections of education, culture, and technology, offering insightful perspectives on how digital environments shape learning and knowledge. Readers can expect thoughtful analysis and innovative ideas that challenge traditional approaches to education and information consumption.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHer books, such as \u003cem\u003eDigital Dieting\u003c\/em\u003e, engage critically with contemporary issues in media and technology, encouraging a reflective and mindful approach to our digital lives. This collection is ideal for those interested in educational theory, cultural studies, and the evolving role of technology in society.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"digital-dieting-by-tara-brabazon-9781472409379","title":"Digital Dieting","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eImagine if a student spent as much time managing information as celebrities doted on dieting? While eating too much food may be the basis of a moral panic about obesity, excessive information is rarely discussed as a crisis of a similar scale. Obviously, plentiful and high quality food is not a problem if eating is balanced with exercise. But without the skills of media and information literacy, students and citizens wade through low quality online information that fills their day yet does not enable intellectual challenge, imagination and questioning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDigital Dieting: From Information Obesity to Intellectual Fitness\u003c\/em\u003e probes the social, political, and academic difficulties in managing large quantities of low quality information. But this book does not diagnose a crisis. Instead, \u003cem\u003eDigital Dieting\u003c\/em\u003e provides strategies to develop intellectual fitness that sorts the important from the irrelevant and the remarkable from the banal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn April 2010, and for the first time, Facebook received more independent visitors than Google. Increasingly there is a desire to share rather than search. But what is the impact of such a change on higher education? If students complain that the reading is 'too hard', then one response is to make it easier. If students complain that assignments are too difficult, then one way to manage this challenge is to make the assignments simpler. Both are passive responses that damage the calibre of education and universities in the long term.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDigital Dieting: From Information Obesity to Intellectual Fitness\u003c\/em\u003e provides active, conscious, careful, and applicable strategies to move students and citizens from searching to researching, sharing to thinking, and shopping to reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47605596160236,"sku":"9781472409379","price":341.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781472409379-digital-dieting.jpg?v=1778134182"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/tara-brabazon.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}