In January of this year, a professor at the University of Brighton made headlines for banning her students from using Google and Wikipedia.
Fed up with the banal and shallow work her students were handing in, she told them in their first year, they would only be able to base their essays on peer-reviewed journals and actual printed-out paper-using books.
Some greying and grumpy luddite? A blinkered digital refusenik?
Hardly. Tara Brabazon is a thirtysomething media studies ...
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