Browsing Department of Media and Communication Studies by Author "Breen, Michael J."
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Inferring production values from content
Breen, Michael J. (2004) -
Maternity services in the Irish mass media: an analysis of media content from 2007–2012
Breen, Michael J.; Devereux, Eoin; Marron, Aileen; Burke, Gerard (BMJ Publishing Group Ltd & Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, 2013)The mass media play a key role in informing the public about matters of public interest and, critically, in the actual shaping of public opinion about those matters. With this in mind, the purpose of this study was to ... -
Measure for Measure: Comparing methodologies for determining newspaper exposure.
Breen, Michael J.; Shoemaker, Pamela J.; Wrigley, Brenda J. (1997)Measure for Measure: Comparing Methodologies for Determining Newspaper Exposure Measuring media exposure requires careful consideration of both the reliability and validity of the operational definitions. This study ... -
Murder, We Vote: The Death Penalty and Media Exposure to Violence
Breen, Michael J. (1996) -
The Net, Its Gatekeepers, Their Bait & Its Victims:Ethical issues relating to the Internet(Pre-Published Version)
Breen, Michael J.; Campbell, Paul B. (IPA Press, 2001) -
The New Poor
Breen, Michael J. (1999) -
No Racists here: Public Opinion and Media Treatment of Asylum Seekers and Refugees
Breen, Michael J.; Devereux, Eoin (Manchester University Press, 2003) -
Pastors or Predators: A case study of clergy representation in two nations
Breen, Michael J. (2001) -
Perverts, Press and Public Policy: How the print media represent sexual crime in Ireland and the UK
Breen, Michael J. (2004) -
Presumptions of Immunity: Ideology, mass media and third level students
Breen, Michael J.; Devereux, Eoin (2004) -
Public exercises in othering: Irish print media coverage of asylum seekers and refugees (pre-published version)
Breen, Michael J.; Devereux, Eoin; Haynes, Amanda (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008) -
Rethinking Power: An Analysis of Media Coverage of Sexual Abuse in Ireland, the UK and the USA
Breen, Michael J. (2004) -
The rise of secularism and the decline of religiosity in Ireland: the pattern of religious change in Europe
Breen, Michael J.; Reynolds, Caillin (Common Ground Publishing, 2011)The European Values Study is a pan-European project which utilises an omnibus survey focusing especially on values associated with work, religion, lifestyles and other issues. Its most recent data gathering exercise was ... -
Secularization in Ireland: Analyzing the relationship between religiosity and demographic variables in Ireland from the European Social Survey 2002-2012 (Pre-published version)
Breen, Michael J.; Healy, Amy (Common Ground Research Networks, 2014)This research will explore both of these theories, secularization and existential (in)security, within Ireland against the backdrop of the recent economic crisis of 2008 using the first five rounds of the European Social Survey. -
Setting up Margins: Public Attitudes and Media Construction of Poverty and Exclusion in Ireland
Breen, Michael J.; Devereux, Eoin (Journal of Irish-Nordic Studies, 2003) -
Smuggling Zebras for Lunch: Media framing of asylum seekers in the Irish print media.
Breen, Michael J.; Haynes, Amanda; Devereux, Eoin (Presses Universitaires de Rennes., 2005)In this paper we offer a critical account of Irish print media coverage of recent immigration. Using data from the year 2002 we consider how both broadsheet and tabloid print media have sought to explain the issues surrounding ... -
Suing the Pope and Scandalising the People: Irish attitudes to sexual abuse by clergy pre- and post-screening of a critical documentary
Breen, Michael J.; Devereux, Eoin; McGee, Hannah; O'Boyle, Ciaran; Goode, Helen (Irish Communications Review, 2010) -
A Tale of Two Centuries: Power and Influence as Sources of Media Content
Breen, Michael J. (2000) -
Through the Looking Glass: How the mass media represent, reflect and refract sexual crime in Ireland
Breen, Michael J. (Irish Communications Review, 2004)Sexual crimes, against adults and children, represent significant social problem in Ireland as indicated in the SAVI report (McGee et al., 2002). This paper examines the framing, representation and construction of sexual ... -
The Truth Will Set You Free: Reflections on the Scandal of Child Sexual Abuse
Breen, Michael J. (The Furrow, 2002)