Browsing Department of Media and Communication Studies by Author "Breen, Michael J."
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Abusers, Beasts and Child Molesters: The ABCs of constructing sexual abuse in the Irish print media.
Breen, Michael J. (Proceedings of the 2004 Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities. Honolulu, Hawaii., 2004) -
Ask Me Another: An evaluation of issues arising from the European Values Survey in relation to questions concerning Technology & Transcendence
Breen, Michael J. (Columba Press, 2003) -
Blind, Deaf & Dumb: The Media, the Middle-Class and the Construction of Poverty
Breen, Michael J.; Devereux, Eoin (2001) -
Citizens, Loopholes and Maternity Tourists: Irish Print Media Framing of the 2004 Citizenship Referendum.
Breen, Michael J.; Haynes, Amanda; Devereux, Eoin (The Institute of Public Administration, 2006) -
Conduct Unbecoming: The Institutional Church & Media Coverage of Sex Scandals
Breen, Michael J. (2002) -
A cook, a Cardinal, his Priests, and the press: deviance as a trigger for intermedia agenda setting (Pre-published version)
Breen, Michael J. (Sage, 1997) -
A cosy consensus on deviant discourse: How the refugee and asylum seeker meta-narrative has endorsed an interpretative crisis in relation to the transnational politics of the world's displaced persons.
Breen, Michael J.; Haynes, Amanda; Devereux, Eoin (University of Limerick & Mary Immaculate College, 2004) -
Deconstructing Media Reports of Sexual Abuse: An Analysis of Framing in Irish Print Media Coverage of Sexual Abuse 1993-2002.(Pre-Published Version)
Breen, Michael J. (Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2007) -
Depraved Paedos and Other Beasts: The Media Portrayal of Child Sexual Abusers in Ireland and the UK
Breen, Michael J. (Oxford: Interdisciplinary Press, 2004)Child sexual abuse is a significant social problem is Ireland and the UK. Research shows that there are significant differences between the reporting of sexual offences in the process and the reality of such offences on ... -
Different from their Elders & Betters: Age cohort differences in the Irish data of the EVS.
Breen, Michael J. (Veritas, 2002) -
Dreams of a simpler future: Exploring the relationship between technological attitudes and general happiness
Breen, Michael J. (2006) -
Enough Already. Empirical data on Irish Public attitudes to Immigrants, Minorities, Refugees & Asylum Seekers.
Breen, Michael J. (UCSIA: Antwerp, 2006) -
Exploratory Analysis of Photographic Imagery as used In Irish Printed Daily Newspapers
Breen, Michael J.; O'Sullivan, Grace (2009)The purpose of this study is to examine visual representation of our society in the news sections of Irish printed daily national newspapers and to analyse the power distribution that traverses these images for evidence ... -
Fear of Social Isolation: Testing an Assumption from the Spiral of Silence
Breen, Michael J.; Shoemaker, Pamela J.; Stamper, Marjorie (Irish Communications Review, 2000)An untested assumption of the Spiral of Silence has been whether people’s fear of social isolation affects their willingness to voice their opinions in public, especially if their opinions are in the minority. It has also ... -
Fear, framing and foreigners: the othering of immigrants in the Irish print media
Breen, Michael J.; Devereux, Eoin; Haynes, Amanda (Palgrave & Macmillan, 2006)Recent public attitudes research indicates that Ireland has witnessed both an increase in levels of intolerance generally and in racism in particular. Using a frame analysis approach this paper examines how the Irish print ... -
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Media Coverage of Scandals in the Catholic Church in Ireland
Breen, Michael J. (Studies, 2000) -
Homilies for April (Pre-published version)
Breen, Michael J. (The Furrow, 1993) -
Homilies for July (C) (Pre-published version)
Breen, Michael J. (The Furrow, 1998) -
How Media Content Assists and Neglects Child Safety
Breen, Michael J. (Canada's Children, 2005) -
In the know? media, migration and public beliefs
Devereux, Eoin; Breen, Michael J.; Haynes, Amanda (Dublin City University, 2009)Given our wider concerns as to the degree to which the mainstream mass media in Ireland constitutes a public sphere, we have undertaken our analysis in the context of the longstanding debates within media and communication ...