Research Seminars - School of Communications

Seminar Series - 2013

Autumn - 2013

C103, Tuesdays, 12.00 – 13.00

8th Oct. - Steven Conlon, Students, Politics and Society: Constructing a theory of engagement.
15th Oct. – Pat Brereton, ‘Smart Cinema’, audiences and the crossover between new media and film studies.
22nd Oct. – Pat Hong, Stakeholder communication in sustainable development: a Q methodology study.
29th Oct. – Padraig Murphy, #gmpotato Community of Inquiry project.
12th Nov. – Denis Murphy, Ardmore studios, film labour and the Irish state (1962-1964)
19th Nov. – Yuliya.Shakalisava (Research Support Services), How to write a funding proposal
26th Nov. – Ingrid Lewis, The representation of women in European Holocaust films
3rd Dec. – Claudia Mellado, topic TBC
10th Dec. – Miriam Judge, The SmartVet Interactive Whiteboard Project - An Evaluation Perpsective.
17th Dec. - Eugenia Siapera. Reclaiming Journalism: Rethinking Journalism in a Post-Democratic Context

 

Spring - 2013

19th February – Lisa McInerney: presentation (incl. Q&A) from Research and Innovation Support on range of supports available to academic researchers
5th March – Prof. Colum Kenny: Researching and publishing James O'Shaughnessy: Chicago Journalist and American Adman. Colum will discuss his attempts to find a US publisher for his evolving book about a man on whose life's work he will also make a short presentation
12th March – Manuela Ascari: a discourse analysis of interactions from an online pro-anorexia forum
26th March – Visiting scholar, John Sullivan, Muhlenberg College, Pennsylvania: Free, Open Source Software Advocacy as a Social Justice Movement.
2nd April – Eugenia Siapera: Tweeting the #elections: Questions of Theory and Method
16th April - Angela Nagle: An investigation into anti-feminism within online countercultures.
23rd April – Prof. Steven Knowlton and Dr. Neil O’Boyle

 

Visiting Professor Dr. John Sullivan, Associate Professor of Media & Communication at Muhlenberg College, Pennsylvania, will give a lecture entitled

'Free,Open Source Software Advocacy as a Social Justice Movement' - on Tuesday 26th March at 12.00, C136

john Sullivan Dr. Sullivan's research explores the links between media industries and systems of social and economic power. More specifically, he focuses on the constructions of audiences within media organizations, the implementation of U.S. media policies, and on the political economy of cultural production.