Department of Media and Communication Studies: Recent submissions
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Diaspora and Rootedness, Amateurism and Professionalism in Media Discourses of Irish Soccer and Rugby in the 1990s and 2000s
(Irish-American Cultural Institute, 2013)This article explores the tensions between conceptualizations of the nation in terms of diaspora and rootedness, and between amateurism and professionalism, in Irish media discourses of Irish soccer and rugby in the 1990s ... -
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 ... -
Religion, values, and secularization in Europe: a multilevel. cross-national, comparative analysis of the European Values Study Data
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2017)This thesis examines the relationship between religion and values through an analysis of the four waves of the European Values Study 1981 -2008. The thesis engages with key conceptualisations and theorisations of the ... -
Being 'Good' fans in 'Bad Times':Irish fans of the US television drama The West Wing and the reflexive negotiation of personal and collective identity at a time of political and social crisis
(2016-01-09)Much contemporary theory posits a relationship between the consumption of cultural and media artefacts and the construction and negotiation of individual and collective identities. An additional debate concerns whether ... -
'Against the rest': fanzines and alternative music cultures in Ireland
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2015)This thesis investigates the role of fanzines in developing music communities in Ireland. It explores these fan-produced texts from the emergence of the first Irish punk fanzines in 1977 to the present, questioning their ... -
The television anti-hero
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2013)This thesis tests the hypothesis that there has been a sustained depiction of the anti-hero on US cable television since the late 1990s. It also addresses a number of closely related research sub-questions. In summary, why ... -
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.
(University of Limerick & Mary Immaculate College, 2004) -
The rise of secularism and the decline of religiosity in Ireland: the pattern of religious change in Europe
(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 ... -
Introduction: non-western popular music
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The Local and the Global in North African Popular Music.
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Pirates of the Mediterranean : Moroccan music video and technology
(Liverpool University Press, 2009)Technologies for the consumption and production of global media have brought ‘foreign bodies’ into the domestic spaces of millions of Moroccans. Such unprecedented access to cultural materials is, however, negotiated at a ... -
Canadian Multicultural Models: Lessons for Northern Ireland?
(Liverpool University Press, 2006) -
New Technologies and the Facilitation of Participation in Community Radio.(Pre-Published Version)
(Intellect, 2011)This paper investigates the extent to which Irish community radio stations use new technologies to facilitate the participation of members of their communities in programme production, station management and in the ... -
Measure for Measure: Comparing methodologies for determining newspaper exposure.
(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 ... -
From Barrytown to Ballymun: The Problematics of Space, Class and Gender in Roddy Doyle’s Family (1994).(Pre-Published Version)
(Manchester University Press, 2007) -
Music and Politics in North Africa.
(Ashgate Publishing., 2009) -
Outside-In: Music, New Media and Tradition in North Africa.
(Scarecrow Press (Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group), 2005) -
Community Radio and Community Development.
(The Liffey Press, 2007) -
Introduction: Community Radio, What Could be Simpler?
(The Liffey Press, 2007)