Browsing Media and Communication Studies (Peer-reviewed publications) by Author "Breen, Michael J."
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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) -
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) -
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) -
Enough Already. Empirical data on Irish Public attitudes to Immigrants, Minorities, Refugees & Asylum Seekers.
Breen, Michael J. (UCSIA: Antwerp, 2006) -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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) -
No Racists here: Public Opinion and Media Treatment of Asylum Seekers and Refugees
Breen, Michael J.; Devereux, Eoin (Manchester University Press, 2003) -
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) -
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)