Communications

Selected Peer Reviewed Journals

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• Barbara O'Connor and Carol MacKeogh. 2007. New Media Communities: Performing Identity in an online women's magazine. Irish Journal Of Sociology, 16, 2, pp97-116.
• O'Connor, B. and Brereton, P. 2007. Pleasure and Pedagogy: The Consumption of DVD Add-Ons Among Irish Teenagers. Convergence, 13, 2, pp143-157.
• Dr. Barbara O'Connor. 2005. Sexing the Nation: Discourses of the Dance Hall in Ireland in the 1930s. Journal Of Gender Studies, 14, 2
• Dr. Barbara O'Connor. 2003. Ruin and Romance: Heterosexual discourses on Irish popular dance, 1920-1960. Irish Journal Of Sociology, 12, 2
• O'Connor B and Elisabeth Klaus. 2001. Pleasure and Meaningful Discourse: An overview of research issues. International Journal Of Cultural Studies, 3, 3, pp369-387.
• O'Connor B and R. Boyle. 1993. '"Dallas with Balls": televised sport, soap opera and male and female pleasures'. Leisure Studies, 12, , pp107-119.
• O'Connor B. 1984. 'Aspects of the Representation of Women in Irish Film'. 8,

Selected Books

• O'Connor, B. Mapping Irish Media: Critical Explorations (co-edited with John Horgan and Helena Sheehan), University College Dublin Press., 2007.
• Dr. Barbara O'Connor. Irish Tourism: Image, Culture and Identity. ( co-edited with Michael Cronin), Channel View Publications, 2003.
• O'Connor B. Media Audiences in Ireland Power and Cultural Identity (co-edited with Mary Kelly), University College Dublin Press, 1997.
• O'Connor B. Tourism in Ireland a critical analysis (co-edited with Michael Cronin), Cork University Press, 1993.
• O'Connor B. Gender in Irish Society (co-edited with Chris Curtin and Pauline Jackson), Galway University Press, 1987.

Selected Chapters

• Dr. Barbara O'Connor. 2010. Nationality. The Media: an Introduction (Third Edition), pp505-518.
• Dr. Barbara O'Connor Professor Elisabeth Klaus. 2010. Aushandlungprozesse in Alltag: Jugenliche Fans von Casting Shows. Alltage in den Medien- Medien im Alltag, pp48-73.
• O'Connor, Barbara. 2009. Colleens and Comely Maidens: Representing and Performing Irish Femininity in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Ireland in Focus: Film, Photography, and Popular Culture, pp144-165.
• Dr. Barbara O'Connor. 2007. 'Big Brother meets the Celtic Tiger?: Reality TV, cultural values and identities'. Mapping Irish Media: Critical Explorations, pp189-203.
• Dr. Barbara O'Connor. 2006. 'The Irish Dancing Body, 19206-1960s'. Irish Moves: An Illustrated History of Dance and Physical Theatre in Ireland
• Dr. Barbara O'Connor. 2004. 'Nation, Gender und die Dance Hall. Eine irische Fallstudie'. Identitatstraume: Nation, Korper und Geschlecht in den Medien, pp133-161.
• Dr. Barbara O'Connor. 2003. ' "Come Dance with me in Irelande": Dance performance in tourist settings'. Irish Tourism: Image, Culture and Identity, pp122-138.
• O'Connor B with M Cronin. 2000. 'From Gombeen to Gubeen: Tourism, Social Class and Cultural Identity in Ireland, 1949-1999'. Writing in the Irish Republic:Literature, Culture, Politics, 1949-1999
• O'Connor B. 1998. 'Riverdance'. Encounters with Modern Ireland: Irish Sociological Profiles, Vol.1 (1995-1996)
• O'Connor B. 1997. 'Gender, Class and Television Viewing: audience response to the 'Ballroom of Romance''. Media Audiences in Ireland: Power and Cultural Identity
• O'Connor B. 1997. 'Safe Sets: women, dance and 'communitas''. Dance in the City
• O'Connor, B. 1993. Myths and Mirrors: tourism and cultural identity. Tourism in Ireland: A Critical Analysis
• O'Connor B. 1991. 'Tourist Images in Ireland'. Nothing Bloody Stands Still: European Network for Cultural and Media Studies, Amsterdam, Vol.1
• O'Connor B with EM Trauth. 1991. ' A Study of the Interaction between Information Technology and Society: an illustration of combined qualitative research methods'. Information Systems Research: Contemporary Approaches and Emergent Traditions
• O'Connor B. 1988. Ireland. East of Dallas: The European Challenge to American Telvision
• O'Connor B. 1984. The Representation of Women in Television Drama. Television and Irish Society

Reviews

• Dr. Barbara O'Connor. 2004. Signifying Place: The Semiotic Realisation of Place in Irish Product Marketing. Journal Of Tourism & Cultural Change, 2,
• o'Connor B. 1999. Good Times: Bad Times: Soap Operas and Society in Western Europe. Media Culture & Society, 21, pp819-821.
• O'Connor B. 1998. Electronic Media and Indigenous Peoples: A voice of our own?. Media Culture & Society, 20, pp349-351.
• Dr. Barbara O'Connor. 1989. Television and its Audience: International Research Perspectives. European Journal Of Communication,

Selected Non-peer Reviewed Journals

• O'Connor B. 1990. Soap and Sensibility: Audience Responses to 'Dallas' and 'Glenroe''. Monograph published by RTE, *,

• O'Connor B and E. Klaus, The meaning of pleasure and the pleasure of meaning towards a definition of pleasure in reception analysis (with Elizabeth Klaus), Horizon Conference, - , Utrecht
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• O'Connor B, Cultural Identity and the female audience, Department of Sociology University College Cork, - , Cork
• O'Connor B, Research directions in studies of the television audience, Department of Media Studies Queen Margaret College Edinburgh, - , Edinburgh
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• O'Connor B, Soap and sensibility responses of Irish audiences to Dallas and Glenroe, Media and Culture Summer School, - , Dublin City University
• O'Connor b and M Cronin, From Gombeen to Gubeen Tourism Identity and Class in Ireland 1949-1999 (with Michael Cronin SALIS), Joint Faculty of Humanities Conference, - , St Patrick's College Drumcondra Dublin
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• Barbara O'Connor and Elizabeth Klaus, , International Association for, - , Barcelona, Spain
• O'Connor B, Television soap opera: Genre and Gender, Bicentennial Guest Lecture Series, - , Maynooth College, Kildare
• O'Connor B, Research methodology the use of focus group discussion in audience research, Department of Sociology, University College Dublin, - , Dublin
• O'Connor B, The television audience and the cultural imperialism debate, Department of Media Studies Queen Margaret College Edinburgh, - , Scotland
• O'Connor B, Space/Places of Celebrity: Local, national and global discourses in audience engagement with television talent shows, International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) Annual Conference, 21-JUL-09 - 24-JUL-09,
• B. O'Connor, 'Come Back to Erin- Representing Ireland in Tourist History', 'Come Back to Erin' : Seminar on Irish Travel Posters, 21-SEP-07 - , National Museum of Ireland- Country Life, Turlough Park, Co. Mayo
• O'Connor, B and Klaus, E., Fandom for Fame: TV Talent Shows and their Young Audiences, Media, Communication, Information: Celebrating 50 Years of Theories and Practices. 50th. Anniversary Conference of the International Association for Mass Communication Research (IAMCR), 23-JUL-07 - 26-JUL-07, Paris
• O'Connor, B., Gender Studies and Communications in East-and West-Europe, A troubled relationship: issues and theories, First European Communication Conference, 24-NOV-05 - 26-NOV-05, Amsterdam
• O'Connor, B., 'The Colleen and the Camera: Representing and Performing Irish Femininity, Into the Light: Photography in 19th Century Ireland, 02-NOV-05 - , Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dun Laoghaire
• O'Connor B, Desparately Seeking and Audience? Shifting Paradigmsi in the Consumption of New Media, Digital Landscapes: Media Transformations in Ireland, 18-MAY-01 - 19-MAY-01, Dublin
• O'Connor B, 'Come Dance with me in Irelande': Dance Performance in Tourist Settings, 16th. Annual Conference of the European Seminar in Ethnomusicology (ESEM), 07-SEP-00 - 09-SEP-00, Belfast, Northern Ireland
• O'Connor B, , Dance in the City conference, 13-FEB-98 - 14-FEB-98, Institute for Contemporary Arts London
• O'Connor B, From the local to the global in Irish dance, Research Seminar, Department of Sociology, 12-DEC-97 - , NUI Maynooth
• O'Connor B, The local and the global in the consumption of older and newer media technologies in Ireland, International Association for Mass Communication Research(IAMCR), 04-JUL-97 - 07-JUL-97, Oaxaca, Mexico
• O'Connor B, Media, cultural identity and citizenship, The European Media Technology and Everyday Life Network (EMTEL) Workshop, 09-MAY-97 - 10-MAY-97, Dublin
• O'Connor B, Consuming culture class gender and the formation of of national identities, Conference on Gendered narratives: Aspects of Cultural Identity in ireland, 04-MAR-94 - , Derry
• O'Connor B, Differential pleasures and the Irish televison audience, Department of Media Studies University of Ulster, 08-FEB-92 - , Coleraine Northern Ireland
• O'Connor B, Some issues in the reception of of television serial drama in Ireland, University of Siegen Germany, 15-DEC-91 - , Germany
• O'Connor B and R. Boyle, "Dallas with Balls" televised sport, soap opera and male and female pleasures, International Television Studies Conference, 16-JUL-91 - 19-JUL-91, London
• O'Connor B, Changes and chains for Irish women, Beannulacht Conference on Women Worldwide, 18-MAY-91 - , Dublin
• O'Connor B, Tourist images of Ireland, ERASMUS Media and Cultural Studies Network Intensive Programme, 18-APR-91 - , Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• O'Connor B, National Broadcasting and national identity, International Communication Association Conference, 19-JUN-90 - 21-JUN-90, Dublin
• O'Connor B, Cultural tourism in Ireland: Prospects and Problems, The Pearse Foundation annual weekend Scoil an Phiarsaigh 90, 09-APR-90 - ,
• O'Connor, Gender in Irish society, Marxist School, New York City, 21-JUL-89 - , New York
• O'Connor B, Community, local and regional television in Ireland, International Colloqium on Community:Regional and Local television in the EC, 10-MAR-89 - , Namur Belgium