Browsing Media and Communication Studies (Peer-reviewed publications) by Title
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Failure, guilt, confession, redemption? Revisiting unpublished research through a psychosocial lens (Pre-published version)
(The Association for Psychological Studies, 2017)This article offers some critical reflections on a case of failure to bring a qualitative research project to completion and publication earlier in the author’s career. Possible explanations are considered in light of ... -
Fear of Social Isolation: Testing an Assumption from the Spiral of Silence
(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
(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 ... -
Football’s 'coming out' : Soccer and homophobia in England’s tabloid press .
(Media International Australia, 2011)This article examines the current contradictory discourses on homosexuality and soccer within the British (specifically English) newspaper media. While support ostensibly is given in the press to the eradication of homophobia ... -
From Barrytown to Ballymun: The Problematics of Space, Class and Gender in Roddy Doyle’s Family (1994).(Pre-Published Version)
(Manchester University Press, 2007) -
From the 'Other' Island to the One with 'No West Side':
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The Gnawa of Oujda: music at the margins in Morocco
(VWB - Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung, 1998)This paper describes some of my fieldwork encounters with the Gnawa, a group of eth- nic minority musicians living in Oujda , north-eastern Morocco, where I conducted re- search in 1994. I recount how I met the group and ... -
Homilies for April (Pre-published version)
(The Furrow, 1993) -
Homilies for July (C) (Pre-published version)
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How Media Content Assists and Neglects Child Safety
(Canada's Children, 2005) -
In the know? media, migration and public beliefs
(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 ... -
Introduction: Community Radio, What Could be Simpler?
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Introduction: non-western popular music
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The Irish language and radio: a response
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Keeping Them Under Pressure: Masculinity, Narratives of National Regeneration and the Republic of Ireland Soccer Team
(Routledge, 2005)Since 1988 the Republic of Ireland soccer team has been cast, in Irish media, as both symbol and material example of social, economic and cultural regeneration in Ireland. This paper argues that such claims are narrative ... -
Language Change and Ideology in Irish Radio Advertising
(Dublin Institute of Technology, 2016-11)Language ideologies have been defined as ‘sets of representations through which language is imbued with cultural meaning for a certain community’. These representations can be seen as ‘ways of understanding the world that ... -
The Local and the Global in North African Popular Music.
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Maternity services in the Irish mass media: an analysis of media content from 2007–2012
(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 ... -
Migration, Masculinity and the Fugitive State of Mind in the Irish Emigrant Footballer Autobiography: the Case of Paul McGrath
(Asociación Española de Estudios Irlandeses, 2010)The ‘confessional’ autobiography has become a popular variant of professional football autobiography in Britain. Co-written ‘autobiographies’ by prominent former emigrant Irish or Irish descended international footballers ...