Communications

Biographical Details:

Worked at Northern Illinois University, the University of Oregon and the University of New Mexico. From 1986, Professor of Communication in Dublin City University. At various periods since then, served in the role of Head of School and Dean of the Faculty. From 1995 to 2000, served as Chairman of RTE, the national public service broadcasting system in Ireland.

Research Interests:

Media Studies; Political Communication; European Media Policy and Public Communication in the EU; International Communication.

Selected Peer Reviewed Journals

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• F.Corcoran, D. Fahy. 2009. Exploring the European Elite Sphere: the Role of the Financial Times. Journalism Studies, 10, 1, pp100-113.
• F.Corcoran. 2007. Television Across the World: Interrogating the Globalisation Paradigm. New Review Of Film And Television Studies, 5, 1, pp81-96.
• F.Corcoran. 2002. The Political Instrumentality of Cultural Memory. Javnost-the Public, 9, 3, pp49-64.
• F.Corcoran. 2002. Digital Television in Ireland: Local Forces in a Global Context. Javnost-the Public, 9, 4, pp49-66.
• F.Corcoran. 1999. Towards Digital Television in Europe. Javnost-the Public, 6, 3, pp67-86.
• F.Corcoran. 1999. Globalisation, Television and Education. Circa,
• F.Corcoran. 1998. Refugee Challenges for Ireland: Cultural Globalisation or Identity Crisis?. Media Development, 45, 2, pp16-22.
• F.Corcoran. 1996. Media, Children and RTE. Irish Communications Review, 1, , pp83-88.
• F.Corcoran. 1996. Special Issue: Public Service Television (editor). Javnost-the Public, 3, 2
• F.Corcoran. 1996. Arts Council of the Air: Switching Attention from the Service to the Programme. Javnost-the Public, 6, 1, pp83-88.
• F.Corcoran. 1994. Linguistic Colonialism and the Survival of Subaltern Languages. Javnost-the Public, 1, 3, pp55-64.
• F.Corcoran. 1993. Nationalism, Identity and Social Memory. Media Development, 40,
• F.Corcoran. 1991. Restructuring Ireland for an Integrated Europe Telematics and Informatics 8 (3); 167-181.
• F.Corcoran. 1987. Television as Ideological Apparatus: the Power and the Pleasure. Critical Studies in Mass Communication 1.
• F.Corcoran. 1986. KAL-007 and the Evil Empire:Mediated Disaster and Forms of Rationalisation. Critical Studies in Mass Communication.
• F.Corcoran. 1985. Pedagogy in Prison: Teaching in Maximum Security Institutions. Communication Education 34.
• F.Corcoran. 1985. Correlates of the Interpretation of Television Drama: a Study of Young Children's Abilities. Early Childhood Development and Care 20.
• F.Corcoran. 1984. The Widening Gyre: Another Look at Wander and his Critics. Central States Speech Journal 35.
• F.Corcoran. 1984. Television as Ideological Apparatus:the Power and the Pleasure. Critical Studies in Mass Communication 1.
• F.Corcoran. 1984. Consciousness: a Missing Link in the Coupling of Technology and Communication. Canadian Journal of Communication 10.
• F. Corcoran. 1983. The Bear in the Backyard: Myth, Ideology and Victimage Ritual in Soviet Funerals. Communication Monographs. 31, , pp305-320.
• F.Corcoran & M.Breen. 1982. Myth in the Television Discourse. Communication Monographs.
• F. Corcoran. 1981. Towards a Semiotics of Screen Media: Problems in the Use of a Linguistic Paradigm. Western Journal of Speech Communication 45.
• F.Corcoran. 1981. Processing Information from the Screen Media: a Psycholinguistic Approach. Educational Communication and Technology Journal 49.

Selected Books

• Prof Farrel Corcoran.
• Farrel Corcoran. RTE and the Globalisation of Irish Television, Intellect Books, 2004.
• Prof Farrel Corcoran. Democracy and Communication in the New Europe, Hampton, 1995.

Selected Chapters

• F. Corcoran. 2010. From the Periphery to the Core: Post-Coloniality and the Celtic Tiger. Centres and Peripheries: Metropolitan and Non-metropolitan Journalism in the Twentieth Century
• F. Corcoran. 2010. The Politics of Belonging: Identity Anxiety in the European Union. Integrating Europe: Media, Nationalism and European Identities.
• F.Corcoran. 2010. Civic Engagement and Elite Decision-making in Europe: Reconfiguring Public Service News. Reinventing Public Service Communication: European Broadcasters and Beyond
• F.Corcoran. 2007. From Cultural Nationalism to Market Liberalism. Television and Public Policy: Change and Continuity in the Age of Liberalsim.
• F.Corcoran. 2007. Irish Television in a Global Context. Mapping Irish Media: Critical Explorations., pp17-48.
• F. Corcoran. 2006. The Circulation of Television Content Within Europe: Will Digitisation Make a Difference?. The Impact of the Internet on the Mass Media in Europe
• F.Corcoran. 2006. Refocusing on the Question of Power in New Media Research. Digitising Television: Theoretical Issues and Comparative Studies Across Europe., pp3-19.
• F. Corcoran. 2004. Digging Up the Past: Memory and Meaning in a State Funeral. Place and Non-place: the Reconfiguration of Ireland.
• F. Corcoran. 2004. Government, Public Broadcasting and the Urge to Censor. Political Censorship and the Democratic State., pp86-98.
• F.Corcoran. 2004. Strong and Weak Versions of Interactive Television. Television and Interactivity in Europe., pp17-28.
• F. Corcoran. 2001. Cultural Rights and Media Performance. Media and the Marketplace: Ethical Perspectives., pp15-32.
• F. Corcoran. 2000. Technologies of Memory. Memories of the Present., pp25-34.
• F. Corcoran. 2000. Public Communication in an Information Age: the Future of the National Broadcasting System. National Questions: Essays to Mark the 150th Anniversary of the Death of Daniel O'Connell.
• F. Corcoran. 1998. La Investigacio Sobre Comunicacio de Masses a Europe. Analisi 21, pp199-210.
• F. Corcoran and P. Preston. 1995. Communication and the Pursuit of Democracy in the New European and Global Order. Democracy and Communication in the New Europe: Change and Continuity: in East and West
• F.Corcoran. 1992. War Reporting: Collateral Damage in the European Theatre. Triumph of the Image: the Media's War in the Persian Gulf.
• F.Corcoran. 1990. KAL-007 and the Evil Empire: Mediated Disaster and Forms of Rationalisation. Rhetorical Dimensions in Media: a Critical Casebook
• F.Corcoran. 1989. Paradigm Dialogue in Communication: Identifying the Dividing Line. Rethinking Communication Volume 1.
• F.Corcoran. 1988. Cultural Studies: from Old World to New World. Communication Yearbook Volume 12
• F.Corcoran. 1987. Television ad Ideological Apparatus: the Power and the Pleasure. Television: the Critical Eye
• F.Corcoran. 1987. The Olympics, the News Media and the Least Favourite Communists. Media Coverage of the 1984 Olympic Games.
• F.Corcoran and M. Breen. 1986. Studies in Myth, Drama, Fantasy Theme and Ideology. Progress in Communication Sciences
• F.Corcoran. 1985. Ideology and Consciousness: the Construction of Social Meaning. Studies in Communication Volume 2: Methodology, Behaviour, Artifacts and Institutions.