Graduate Diploma in Internet Studies

January 16, 2009 by Tara Brabazon

Tara completed a Graduate Diploma in Internet Studies from Curtin University in 2001. The qualification required the completion of six courses:

IS 501 - The informatic age
IS 502 - Advanced Skills for Internet Use
IS 503 - The Internet: a socio-technical approach
IS 514 - Virtual Communiites
IS 590 - Individual Project
IS 593 - Individual Project

Through her results, Tara attained the Graduate Diploma with Distinction.

A series of refereed articles emerged from the completion of this qualification:

“Bonfire of the literacies: (il)Literacy in the informatic age,” Social Alternatives, Vol. 21, No. 3, 2002, pp. 55-60

“Book Memory and the administration of knowledge,” Libri, Vol. 52, No. 1, March 2002, pp. 28-35

“From crayons to perfume, to content providers: teaching in the Informatic Age,” Social Alternatives, Vol. 19, No. 1, January 2000, pp. 40-46

“He lies like a rug: pondering digital memory,” MIA, No. 96, August 2000, pp. 56-64. This article was reprinted (by request) in Media Development (United Kingdom), No. 1, January 2001, pp. 6-12

“How imagined are virtual communities?” Mots Pluriels, http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP1801tb2.html, No. 18, August 2001

“Internet teaching and the administration of knowledge,” First Monday, http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_6/brabazon/index.html, June 2001

“Interrupting the festivities: Digitising HAL’s memory,” LIBRI, Vol. 49, No. 3, September 1999, pp. 159-165

“Libraries and the privatisation of knowledge,” MIA, No. 103, May 2002, 124-134

“Selling silicon snake oil: the buying and selling of education,” AQ, September 2001, pp. 27-35

“Together in Electric Dreams? Narratives of self, sex and romance in the film Electric Dreams.” Metro, No. 126/127, 2001, pp. 33-35

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