DCU Faculties and Centres: School of Communications

2013

Sheehan, Helena (2013) To the Crucible: An Irish engagement with the Greek crisis and the Greek left. Irish Left Review .

2012

Trench, Brian and Miller, Steven (2012) Policies and practices in supporting scientists’ public communication through training. Science and Public Policy, 39 (6). pp. 722-731. ISSN 0302-3427

Lehmkuhl, Markus and Karamanidou, Christina and Tuomo, Mörä and Trench, Brian (2012) Scheduling science on television: A comparative analysis of the representations of science in 11 European countries. Public Understanding of Science, 21 (8). pp. 1002-1018. ISSN 0963-6625

Testar, Jason Thomas (2012) A case study of the televised international newsflow of Raidió Teilifís Éireann and The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: A comparative content analysis. Master of Arts thesis, Dublin City University.

Macri, Diana Gloria (2012) Logging into diaspora? Online identity narratives among the Romanian migrants in Ireland. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Naji, Jeneen (2012) Poetic Machines: an investigation into the impact of the characteristics of the digital apparatus on poetic expression. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Barry, Marguerite (2012) The age of interactivity: An historical analysis of public discourses on interactivity in Ireland 1995 - 2009. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Morgan, Trish (2012) Understanding innovation in digital media artistic production in Ireland. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Sheehan, Helena (2012) An Aisling for our age. In: Engage Ideas, 21 February 2012, Royal Irish Academy (organised by Age & Opportunity).

Sheehan, Helena (2012) Is history a coherent story? Critical Legal Thinking .

Sheehan, Helena (2012) Occupying Dublin: Considerations at the crossroads. Irish Left Review .

Trench, Brian (2012) Scientists’ blogs – glimpses behind the scenes. In: Rodder, Simone and Franzen, Martina and Weingart, Peter, (eds.) The Sciences’ Media Connection – public communication and its repercussions, Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook. Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 273-290. ISBN 978-94-007-2084-8

Trench, Brian (2012) Vital and vulnerable: science communication as a university subject. In: Schiele, Bernard and Claessens, Michel and Shi, Shunke, (eds.) Science Communication in the World: Practices, Theories and Trends. Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 241-258. ISBN 978-94-007-4278-9

2011

Sheehan, Helena (2011) Book review: South Africa pushed to the limit by Hein Marais. Monthly Review, 63 (6). pp. 52-56. ISSN 0027-0520

Byrne, Frank (2011) Free to Air: An examination of the role played by a radio phone-in programme, Liveline, in the democratic process. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

O'Sullivan, John (2011) The Internet and professional journalism: content, practice and values in Irish online news. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Furze, Robert (2011) The visceral screen: Between the cinemas of John Cassavetes and David Cronenberg, a Barthesian perspective. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

D'Souza, Darryl (2011) The Exercise of Personal Agency by Mobile Phone Use: A mixed methods study study among young people in Mumbai, India. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Trench, Brian (2011) Paradoxes of Irish scientific culture. The Irish Review, 43 . pp. 1-13. ISSN 0790-7850

2010

Murphy, Padraig (2010) Nanotechnology: public engagement with health, environment and social issues. Project Report. EPA. ISBN 978-1-84095-373-2

Fahy, Declan (2010) The Celebrity Scientists. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Cody, Lindsay (2010) Engaging with Online Audiences: A cross-country analysis of use of the Web for communicating biomedical science to public audiences. Master of Arts thesis, Dublin City University.

Rogers, Jim (2010) RE-THINKING CRISIS IN THE DIGITAL ECONOMY: A CONTEMPORARY CASE STUDY OF THE PHONOGRAPHIC INDUSTRIES IN IRELAND. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Sheehan, Helena (2010) Book review: Sue Vice, Jack Rosenthal. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2009. £50.00. 202 pp. European Journal of Communication, 25 (1). pp. 91-93. ISSN 1460-3705

2009

Uwah, Innocent Ebere (2009) From rituals to films: a case study of the visual rhetoric of Igbo culture in Nolywood films. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Bourke, Simon (2009) Media and heritage in Ireland: representations of heritage in Irish newspapers and the praxis of determination. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Connors, Paul (2009) Strategic communication through all stages of a major emergency life cycle, with particular reference to the needs of Ireland. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Murphy, Kenneth W. (2009) The political economy of Irish television broadcasting policy 1997 - 2007. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Merton, Eve (2009) The science communication environment: biotechnology researchers' discourse on communication. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Sheehan, Helena (2009) Review: Religion and the human prospect by Alexander Saxton. Science and Society, 73 (4). ISSN 0036-8237 (In Press)

Ging, Debbie (2009) All-consuming images: new gender formations in post-Celtic-Tiger Ireland **Modified FXC**. In: Ging, Debbie and Cronin, Michael and Kirby, Peadar, (eds.) Transforming Ireland: challenges, critiques, resources. Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0719078927

Mohamad Ali, Nazlena and Smeaton, Alan F. and Lee, Hyowon and Brereton, Pat (2009) Developing, deploying and assessing usage of a movie archive system among students of film studies. In: HCI International 2009 - 13th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 19-24 July 2009, San Diego, CA, USA. ISBN 978-3-642-02582-2

Murphy, Padraig (2009) The challenges of "upstream" communication and public engagement for Irish nanotechnology. In: Arnaldi, S. and Lorenzet, A. and Russo, F., (eds.) Technoscience in Progress. Managing the Uncertainty of Nanotechnology. IOS Press. ISBN 978-1-60750-022-3

O'Connor, Barbara (2009) Colleens and comely maidens: representing and performing Irish femininity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In: Flannery, Eóin and Griffin, Michael, (eds.) Ireland in focus: film, photography, and popular culture. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 978-0-8156-3203-0

Sheehan, Helena and Sweeney, Sheamus (2009) The wire and the world: narrative and metanarrative. Jump Cut, 51 (Spring 2009). ISSN 0146-5546

Sheehan, Helena (2009) Contradictory transformations: observations on the intellectual dynamics of South African universities. Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 7 (1). ISSN 1740-2743

Sheehan, Helena (2009) Philosophy and science: connection, disconnection, consequences. The Pantaneto Forum, April 2009 (34). ISSN 1741-1572

Gillan, Mary (2009) In the shadow of the church: Irish and Quebec cinema. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Brereton, Pat (2009) Documentary realism and fundamentalist religion in Ireland: a case study of power in the blood together with The Rocky Road to Dublin and The Road to God Knows Where. REA: Religion, Education and the Arts, 2009 (6).

Trench, Brian (2009) Representations of the knowledge economy - Irish newspapers' discourses on a key policy idea. Irish Communications Review, 11 . pp. 3-20. ISSN 0791-0010

2008

Sparviero, Sergio (2008) Innovation and the economic performance of the primary information sector: a multidisciplinary approach. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Brereton, Pat (2008) Ireland's America: a case study of Sheridan's In America (2002) and Get Rich or Die Tryin (2005). Studies in European Cinema, 5 (1). ISSN 1741-1548

Mohamad Ali, Nazlena and Smeaton, Alan F. and Lee, Hyowon and Brereton, Pat (2008) Developing a MovieBrowser for supporting analysis and browsing of movie content. In: iHCI 2008 - Irish Human Computer Interaction Conference 2008, 19-20 September 2008, Cork, Ireland.

Murphy, Padraig (2008) Come on, be serious: positioning and framing in the power play of classroom-based reproductive and genetic technology debates. In: Bell, A. and Davies, S. and Mellor, F., (eds.) Science and its Publics. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, pp. 57-77. ISBN 9781847185884

Trench, Brian (2008) Internet: turning science communication inside-out? In: Bucchi, Massimiano and Trench, Brian, (eds.) Handbook of Public Communication of Science and Technology. Routledge, London and New York. ISBN 978-0-415-38617-3

Ging, Debbie (2008) Goldfish memories? On seeing and hearing marginalised identities in contemporary Irish cinema. In: Faragó, Borbála and Sullivan, Moynagh, (eds.) Facing the other: interdisciplinary studies on race, gender and social justice in Ireland. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 182-203. ISBN 9781847185976

Brereton, Pat (2008) Religion and Irish cinema in studies. Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, 97 (387). ISSN 0039-3495

Trench, Brian (2008) Towards an analytical framework of science communication models. In: Cheng, D. and Claessens, M. and Gascoigne, T. and Metcalfe, J. and Schiele, B. and Shi, S., (eds.) Communicating science in social contexts: new models, new practices. Springer Netherlands, pp. 119-138. ISBN 978-1-4020-8597-0

2007

Sheehan, Helena (2007) The centenary of Christopher Caudwell and the philosophical landscape of the century. In: Christopher Caudwell Centenary Conference, 20 October 2007, London, UK.

Sheehan, Helena (2007) The assault on scientific rationality: historical analysis and epistemological response. In: ECSO 2007 - The Assault on Science: Constructing a Response, 13th European Skeptics Congress, 7-9 September 2007, Davenport Hotel, Dublin.

Trench, Brian (2007) How the Internet changed science journalism. In: Bauer, Martin and Bucchi, Massimiano, (eds.) Journalism, science and society: science communication between news and public relations. Routledge, pp. 133-142. ISBN 978-0-415-37528-3

Sheehan, Helena (2007) Marxism and science studies: a sweep through the decades. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 21 (2). pp. 197-210. ISSN 1469-9281

Sheehan, Helena (2007) Universities, social movements and market forces. In: All Africa House lecture series, 8 March 2007, University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Sheehan, Helena (2007) Identities, ideologies, market forces and social sciences. In: University of Cape Town Dept of Sociology seminar series, 22 February 2007, University of Cape Town.

Murphy, Padraig (2007) Choosing identities: the politics and practices of classroom discourse on reproductive and genetic technologies. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Brereton, Pat (2007) Editorial: The consumption and use of DVDs and their add-ons. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 13 (2). ISSN 1748-7382

Sheehan, Helena (2007) J D Bernal: philosophy, politics and the science of science. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (57). pp. 29-39. ISSN 1742-6596

Fincham, Kelly (2007) One thousand days of propaganda. Master of Arts thesis, Dublin City University.

Brereton, Pat and O'Connor, Barbara (2007) Pleasure and pedagogy: the consumption of DVD add-ons among Irish teenagers. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 13 (2). ISSN 1748-7382

King, Linda (2007) Traditions and modernities: Aer Lingus and the visualisation of Irish identities 1951-1961. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

2006

Brereton, Pat (2006) Nature tourism and Irish film. Irish Studies Review, 14 (4). pp. 407-420. ISSN 1469-9303

Sheehan, Helena (2006) Review: Popular television drama: critical perspectives. European Journal of Communication, 21 (2). pp. 263-265. ISSN 1460-3705

Sheehan, Helena (2006) Are the humanities threatened by the increasing commercialisation of universities? In: Humanities Festival, 11 May 2006, Dublin City University, Ireland.

Sheehan, Helena (2006) Speaking of the south: northern voices and southern realities. In: Linking the global and the local: education for development in a globalising world, 23-24 March 2006, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland.

Skamnakis, Antonis (2006) Politics, media and journalism in Greece. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Caden, John (2006) RTÉ's coverage of the campaigning on the eighth amendment to the constitutionissues of objectivity, impartiality and fairness. Master of Arts thesis, Dublin City University.

2005

Murphy, Padraig (2005) Young people's perspectives on genetics, identity and society using film and discussion. In: Fischer , Hans E., (ed.) Developing Standards in Research on Science Education. Taylor and Francis, London, pp. 165-170. ISBN 9780415383394

Ging, Debbie (2005) A 'manual on masculinity'? The consumption and use of mediated images of masculinity among teenage boys in Ireland. Irish Journal of Sociology, 14 (2). pp. 29-52. ISSN 0791-6035

Elananza, Azzam A.H. (2005) Freedom of expression in Jordan: a critical study of themes and issues based on an evaluation of influences on the development of the press and publication laws in Jordan since 1920, with particular emphasis on government pressures and censorship of weekly newspapers between 1989 and 1998. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Sheehan, Helena (2005) Introduction: A voice from the dead. In: Philosophical Arabesques by Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin. Monthly Review Press. ISBN 1-58367-102-1

O'Connell, Díóg (2005) Narrative strategies in contemporary Irish cinema: 1993-2003. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

McCole, Niamh (2005) Seeing sense: the visual culture of provincial Ireland 1896-1906. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

O'Connor, Barbara (2005) Sexing the nation: discourses of the dancing body in Ireland in the 1930s. Journal of Gender Studies, 14 (2). pp. 89-105. ISSN 0958-9236

Fennell, Nicholas (2005) The alternative within the mainstream: a critical analysis of some recent Irish films. Master of Arts thesis, Dublin City University.

Carville, Justin (2005) The city and the body in the archive: photography, history and the representation of Dublin 1860-1922. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

2004

Martin, Patrick (2004) Characterisation in the novel: an aesthetic of the uncanny. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

O'Brien, Mark (2004) Disavowing democracy: the silencing project in the South. In: Corcoran, Mary P. and O'Brien, Mark, (eds.) Political Censorship and the Democratic State: The Irish Broadcasting Ban. Four Courts Press, Dublin, pp. 48-58. ISBN 1-85182-869-9

Ging, Debbie and Malcolm, Jackie (2004) Interculturalism and multiculturalism in lreland: textual strategies at work in the media landscape. In: Titley, Gavin, (ed.) Resituating culture. Council of Europe, pp. 125-136. ISBN 9287153965

O'Brien, Breda (2004) Irish churches and mosque - towards a model of media relations. Master of Arts thesis, Dublin City University.

Sheehan, Helena (2004) Irish television drama: a society and its stories. Broadcasting and Irish Society . Radio Telefís Éireann, Dublin . ISBN 0860290115

O'Connor, Barbara (2004) Nation, gender und die dance hall. Eine irische fallstudie. In: Hipfl, Brigitte and Klaus, Elisabeth and Scheer, Uta, (eds.) Identitätsräume Nation, Körper und Geschlecht in den Medien. Eine Topografie. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, pp. 133-161. ISBN 978-3-89942-194-1

O'Brien, Mark (2004) Selling soccer. In: Peillon, Michael and Corcoran, Mary P., (eds.) Place and Non-Place - The Reconfiguration of Ireland. Institute of Public Administration, pp. 54-64. ISBN 1-904541-06-2

Sheehan, Helena (2004) The continuing story of Irish television drama: tracking the tiger. Broadcasting and Irish Society . Four Courts Press, Dublin. ISBN 1-85182-688-2

Ging, Debbie (2004) The politics of sound and image: Eisenstein, artifice and acoustic montage in contemporary feminist cinema. In: Antoine-Dunne, Jean and Quigley, Paula, (eds.) The montage principle: Eisenstein in new cultural and critical contexts. Rodopi, pp. 67-95. ISBN 978-90-420-0898-4

2003

O'Connor, Barbara (2003) 'Come and daunce with me in Irlande': tourism, dance and globalisation. In: Cronin, Michael and O'Connor, Barbara, (eds.) Irish tourism: image, culture and identity. Channel View Publications, Clevedon, pp. 122-140. ISBN 978-1-873150-53-5

Connolly, Maeve (2003) An archaeology of Irish cinema: Ireland's subaltern, migrant and feminist film cultures (1973-87). Master of Arts thesis, Dublin City University.

Day, Rosemary (2003) Community radio in Ireland: building community, participation and multi-flow communication. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Cawley, Anthony (2003) Innovation in the Irish digital media industry between 1999 and 2002: an emergent new 'content' industry. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Trench, Brian (2003) New roles for users in online news media? Exploring the application of interactivity through European case studies. In: Servaes, Jan, (ed.) The European information society: a reality check. ECREA series . Intellect, pp. 205-224. ISBN 9781841501062

Trench, Brian and Quinn, Gary (2003) Online news and changing models of journalism. Irish Communication Review, 9 (1). ISSN 0791-0010

Barbagallo, Fiona (2003) Public participation and controversy involving science: an Irish perspective. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Breathnach, T.M. (2003) The consumption of heritage centres in Ireland, with particular reference to Wicklow's historic gaol. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Manfreda, Giovanni (2003) The myth of the 1960s and its influences on the collective imagination of western contemporary popular culture. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

2002

Keating, Anthony (2002) Secrets and lies: an exploration of the role of identity, culture and communication in the policy process relating to the provision of protection and care for vulnerable children in the Irish Free State and Republic 1923-1974. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

2001

Sheehan, Helena (2001) The drama of the science wars: what is the plot? [Review: Beyond the science wars: the missing discourse about science and society]. Public Understanding of Science, 10 (2). ISSN 1361-6609

2000

Sheehan, Helena (2000) Ecological roots: which go deepest? Review of Marx's ecology by John Bellamy Foster. Monthly Review, 52 (5). ISSN 0027-0520

O'Connor, Barbara and Cronin, Michael (2000) From gombeen to gubeen: tourism, social class and cultural identity in Ireland 1949-1999. In: Ryan, Ray, (ed.) Writing in the Irish Republic: literature, culture and politics 1949-1999. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-333-73658-6

O'Connor, Barbara and Klaus, Elisabeth (2000) Pleasure and meaningful discourse: an overview of research issues. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 3 (3). pp. 369-387. ISSN 1460-356X

Sheehan, Helena (2000) Review: Questioning Ireland: debates in political philosophy and public policy. Irish Political Studies, 15 (1). pp. 223-224. ISSN 1743-9078

O'Connor, Barbara and Klaus, Elisabeth (2000) The meaning of pleasure and the pleasure of meaning: towards a definition of pleasure in reception analysis. In: Brosius, Hans-Bernd, (ed.) Kommunikation über Grenzen und Kulturen. Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft , 27 . UVK Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Konstanz, pp. 411-428. ISBN 978-3-89669-280-1

1998

Sheehan, Helena (1998) Grand narratives then and now: can we still conceptualise history? Socialism and Democracy, 12 (1). pp. 75-87. ISSN 0885-4300

Peillon, Michel and Slater , Eamonn (1998) Riverdance. In: Peillon, Michel and Slater, Eamonn, (eds.) Encounters with modern Ireland: a sociological chronicle of Ireland, 1995-1996. Institute of Public Administration, Dublin. ISBN 978-1872002590

1997

O'Connor, Barbara (1997) Gender, class and television viewing: audience responses to the 'Ballroom of romance'. In: Kelly, Mary J. and O'Connor, Barbara, (eds.) Media audiences in Ireland: power and cultural identity. University College Dublin Press, Dublin. ISBN 9781900621090

1996

O'Connor, Barbara (1996) Safe sets: women, dance and 'Communitas'. In: Thomas, Helen, (ed.) Dance in the city. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-312-17453-8

1995

Sheehan, Helena (1995) Ideological analysis and the alternatives. [Review: Communication, culture and hegemony by J Martin-Barbero]. Irish Communications Review, 5 . pp. 103-104. ISSN 0791-0010

1994

Sheehan, Helena (1994) Has the red flag fallen? In: A dozen lips. Attic Press. ISBN 1-85594-060-4

1993

Sheehan, Helena (1993) Soap opera and social order: Glenroe, Fair City and contemporary Ireland. In: Imagining Ireland, 30-31 October 1993, Irish Film Centre, Dublin, Ireland.

O'Connor, Barbara and Boyle, Raymond (1993) Dallas with balls: televized sport, soap opera and male and female pleasures. Leisure Studies, 12 (2). pp. 107-119. ISSN 0261-4367

Sheehan, Helena (1993) Introduction: The fate of marxism. In: Marxism and the philosophy of science: a critical history. Humanities Press International, Atlantic Highlands, NJ, USA, xiii-xvii. ISBN 0-391-03780-3

Sheehan, Helena (1993) Portrait of a marxist as a young nun. In: Marxism and spirituality: an international anthology. Bergin & Garvey, Greenwood Publishing, Westport & London, pp. 153-170. ISBN 0-89789-291-7

1992

Sheehan, Helena (1992) European socialism: a blind alley or a long and winding road? Other. MSF (now Amicus) trade union.

Sheehan, Helena (1992) Gender and Genre [or The end of his story]. Graph (12). pp. 21-25. ISSN 0790-8016

Sheehan, Helena (1992) On public service broadcasting: against the tide. Irish Communications Review, 2 . pp. 59-60. ISSN 0791-0010

Sheehan, Helena (1992) The parameters of the permissible: how Scrap Saturday got away with it. Irish Communications Review, 2 . pp. 73-76. ISSN 0791-0010

1991

Sheehan, Helena (1991) America: symptoms of decline. The Irish Review (11). pp. 56-63. ISSN 0790-7850

Sheehan, Helena (1991) Writing and the zeitgeist. Irish University Review, 21 (2). pp. 295-306. ISSN 0021-1427

1988

Sheehan, Helena (1988) Images of the 60s in the 80s: memories of social unrest in US tv series. In: International Television Studies Conference, 20-22 July 1988, Institute of Education, London, UK.

1981

Sheehan, Helena (1981) Philosophers, scientists and the unity of science. In: 16th International Congress of the History of Science, 26 August - 3 September 1981, Bucharest, Romania.

1979

Sheehan, Helena (1979) The history of the philosophy of science: a broader perspective. In: 6th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, 22 - 29 August 1979, Hannover, Germany.