Communications

Biographical Details:

Dr. Debbie Ging is a lecturer in the School of Communications. She teaches Media Studies, Film Studies and Cultural Studies (with a focus on gender and sexuality and ethnicity and interculturalism). She is currently chair of the MA in Film and Television Studies. Debbie is a member of the International Advisory Board for the journal Men and Masculinities (http://jmm.sagepub.com/) and is a member of the Editorial Board of Gender, Sexuality and Feminism (http://www.gsfjournal.org/). She is a member of the EROSS research group in DCU (http://www.dcu.ie/eross/index.shtml) and of the new National Research Centre for Media, Power and the Public.

Research Interests:

All aspects of gender and sexuality in the media, masculinity in film, advertising, multiculturalism / interculturalism and the media, audience research, sound in cinema. PhD: a textual and audience analysis of marginalised masculinities in contemporary Irish film.

Selected Peer Reviewed Journals

• Ging, Debbie. 2007. All the Rage: Digital Games, Female Violence and the Postfeminisation of Cinema¿s New Action Heroines. Film Ireland, 4,
• Ging, Debbie. 2005. A `Manual on Masculinity¿?: The Consumption and Use of Mediated Images of Masculinity among Teenage Boys in Ireland. Irish Journal Of Sociology, 14, 2
• Ging, Debbie. 2004. The Lad from New Ireland: Marginalised, Disaffected and Criminal Masculinities in Contemporary Irish Cinema. Film And Film Culture, Vol. 3,
• Ging, Debbie. 2003. Noises Off: the Unsung Potential of Sound in Cinema. Film And Film Culture, 2,

Selected Books

• Ging, Debbie. Men and Masculinities in Irish Cinema, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
• Ging, Debbie, Cronin, Michael and Kirby, Peadar (Eds.). Transforming Ireland: Challenges, Critiques and Resources, Manchester University Press, 2009.

Selected Chapters

• Ging, Debbie. 2013. Culture on the Edge: the Postfeminist Challenge in Margrit Shildrick and Noreen Giffney (Eds) Theory on the Edge: Irish Studies and the Politics of Sexual Difference [in press].
• O'Higgins-Norman, James and Ging, Debbie. 2013. Cyberbullying among Adolescent Girls: Issues and Responses. A Case Study from Ireland in Bernadette Flanagan, Sharon Thornton (Eds.) The Bloomsbury Guide to Pastoral Care. Bloomsbury Continuum [in press].
• Ging, Debbie. 2009. All-Consuming Images: New Gender Formations in Post-Celtic-Tiger Ireland. Transforming Ireland: Challenges, Critiques and Resources.
• Ging, Debbie. 2008. Goldfish Memories? On Seeing and Hearing Marginalised Identities in Contemporary Irish Cinema in Wanda Balzano, Anne Mulhall, and Moynagh Sullivan (Eds.) Facing the Other: Interdisciplinary Studies on Race, Class and Gender in Ireland. Cambridge Scholar's Press.
• Ging, Debbie. 2007. New Lads or Protest Masculinities?: Investigating Marginalised Masculinities in Contemporary Irish Film. Mapping Irish Media: Critical Explorations.
• Ging, Debbie. 2004. The Politics of Sound and Image: Eisenstein, Artifice and Acoustic Montage in Contemporary Feminist Cinema . The Montage Principle: Eisenstein in New Cultural and Critical Contexts (Critical Studies 21). Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, 2004., pp67-98.
• Ging, Debbie and Malcolm, Jackie. 2004. Interculturalism and Multiculturalism in Ireland: Textual Strategies at Work in the Media Landscape. Re-situating Culture. Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing, 2004., pp125-135.
• Ging, Debbie. 2002. Screening the Green: Irish Cinema under the Celtic Tiger. Reinventing Ireland: Culture and the Celtic Tiger London: Pluto, 2002, pp177-195.

Reviews

• Ging, Debbie. 2010. Stephanie Rains, The Irish-American in Popular Culture: 1945-2000 (Irish Academic Press, 2007). Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television,
• Ging, Debbie. 2010. Nina Power, One Dimensional Woman (Zero Books, 2009). Irish Left Review http://www.irishleftreview.org/2010/07/21/nina-power-dimensional-woman/,
• Ging, Debbie. 2002. Annette Kuhn, An Everyday Magic: Cinema and Cultural Memory (I.B. Tauris, 2002). Film And Film Culture, Vol. 2.,
• Ging, Debbie. 1999. 'Tales of the City' - a review of the Cinema and the City conference organised by UCD's Centre for Film Studies. Circa, 88,

Selected Non-peer Reviewed Journals

• Ging, Debbie and Canning, Laura. 2012. From Rural Electrification to Rural Pornification: Sensation¿s Poetics of Dehumanisation. http://www.estudiosirlandeses.org/Issue7/FilmReviews_7/IrishFilm&TV_7.htm,
• Ging, Debbie and Judge, Miriam. 2010. Someone Else's Shoes: Developing a 'serious game' for educating about migration and cultural integration in Ireland.
• Ging, Debbie. 2010. 'Padded bras will never empower young girls'.
• Flynn, Roddy and Ging, Debbie. 2009. Representations Of People With Disability In Irish Broadcast Media. NDA / BCI,
• Ging, D., Lawless, K., Pearson-Evans, A., Mulcahy, C. and Rogers, P. 2007. DCU Finglas for Diversity Project Report: First steps in community-university partnership: lessons from the Dublin City University Finglas for Diversity initiative. ,
• Ging, Debbie. 2007. The Celtic Chick-flick: How About You (2007) and PS I Love You I (2007). Estudios Irlandeses. Irish Film and Television: the Year in Review,
• Ging, Debbie. 2007. Society is complicit in turning girls into sex objects . The Irish Times,
• Ging, Debbie. 2006. Masculinity in Contemporary Irish Cinema, Irish Cinema 2005: Year in Review. Estudios Irlandeses (online journal), 1,
• Ging, Debbie. 2006. Review of Capital Letters, Irish Cinema 2006: Year in Review . Estudios Irlandeses (online journal), 2,
• Ging, D., Connolly, M. and Malcolm, J. 2002. Report on the Forum on Media and Interculturalism, Dublin City University, 21st and 22nd March, 2002. . ,
• Ging, Debbie. 2001. All About Adam? Postfeminist apathy in the Irish film industry. Film West , Issue 44, pp50-51.
• Ging, Debbie. 2001. Men Behaving Predictably? The new 'masculinity crisis' films. Film West , Issue 44, pp50-51.
• Ging, Debbie. 2000. Partners in Crime. Interview with writer-director Fintan Connolly and producer Fiona Bergin. Film West, Issue 41, pp26-28.
• Ging, Debbie. 1999. Some Prefer Cake: homosexual identities in contemporary cinema. Film West, Issue 37, pp58-59.

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• Ging, Debbie, Men and Masculinities in Irish Cinema, UCD School of English Seminar Series, 21-NOV-12 - 21-NOV-12, UCD, Dublin
• Ging, Debbie, Discussant on Media and Diversity in Europe: Recent Research symposium, Media Diversity in Theory and Practice: Symposium and Workshop, 02-FEB-12 - 02-FEB-12, Dublin City University, Ireland
• Ging, Debbie, Dublin University Gender Equality Society seminar, `Sex on the Screen¿ , 18-OCT-11 - 18-OCT-11, TCD, Dublin
• Ging, Debbie, `Changing Images of Masculinity? A Qualitative and Quantitative Study of Men in Irish-Mediated Advertising¿, Masculinity in Popular Culture, 24-SEP-11 - 25-SEP-11, Huston School of Film and Digital Media, NUIG
• Ging, Debbie and Judge, Miriam, `Piloting a Digital Game for Educating about Migration: Initial Feedback from the Classroom¿, Diverse conference, 28-JUN-11 - 30-JUN-11, Dublin City University, Ireland
• Ging, Debbie and Judge, Miriam, `Developing and Piloting a Digital Game for Educating about Migration', Games, Learning and Society conference 2011 , 15-JUN-11 - 17-JUN-11, Madison Wisconsin, US
• Ging, Debbie, 'Using film and media as pedagogical tools in education', Ubuntu Network, Dialogue Day 5: Media Stories and Messages ¿ Critical Media Literacy for Development Education, 28-FEB-11 - 28-FEB-11, NCAD, Dublin
• Ging, Debbie, 'Sex Positive Feminism: libidinal liberation or sexual disempowerment?', UCD Women's Studies Centre Public Seminar Series, 24-FEB-11 - 24-FEB-11, UCD, Dublin
• Ging, Debbie, Judge, Miriam and Morgan, Trish, Using Someone Else's Shoes in the Classroom, CESI Computer Education Society of Ireland, `ICT in Education - Changing Landscapes¿ conference, 05-FEB-11 - 06-FEB-11, Portlaoise, Ireland
• Ging, Debbie and Flynn, Roddy, `Written on the Skin: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Irish-Mediated Advertising's Treatment of Male and Female Ageing¿, ECREA (European Communication Research and Education Association), 12-OCT-10 - 15-OCT-10, Hamburg, Germany
• Ging, D., Cronin, Michael and O¿Donnell, Katherine, `Into the future, into the past: sexuality, history and Irish literary and cultural studies¿ (joint panel presentation) , IASIL (International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures), 26-JUL-10 - 30-JUL-10, NUI Maynooth, Ireland
• Ging, Debbie, `Transitional spaces? A study of gender representations in Irish-mediated advertising¿, Visualising Ireland: Visualising Gender symposium, 05-JUN-10 - 06-JUN-10, Humanities Research Institute UCD
• Ging, Debbie and Judge, Miriam, Mapping the pedagogical, technical, philosophical and creative processes involved in the development of a prototype game on migration, Migrant Lives: Past, Present and Future, 08-APR-10 - 08-APR-10, Dublin City University
• Ging, Debbie, Sex-positive Feminism: Redemptive Liberation or Self Disempowerment?, Self, Selves and Sexualities Conference, 19-MAR-10 - 20-MAR-10, Dublin City University
• Ging, Debbie, Boys on Film: Irish Cinema's Challenge to Myths of Irish Manhood since the 1970s, Irish Masculinities: An Interdisciplinary Conference , 26-FEB-10 - 27-FEB-10, Institute of Irish Studies, Queens University, Belfast
• Ging, Debbie and Judge, Miriam, `Developing a 'serious game' for educating about migration and interculturalism in Ireland¿, CESI Computer Education Society of Ireland, Creative Technology in Challenging Times , 05-FEB-10 - 06-FEB-10, Portlaoise, Ireland
• Ging, Debbie, Written on the Skin? A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Irish-Mediated Advertising's Treatment of Male and Female Ageing, British Sociological Association, Ageing, Body and Society Study Group Conference: 'Gender, Ageing and the Body ', 20-JUL-09 - 20-JUL-09, British Library Conference Centre, London
• Ging, Debbie and Tuite, Declan, Someone Elses Shoes: Developing a serious game for educating about immigration and cultural education in Ireland, ECREA (European Communication Research and Education Association,2nd European Communication Conference), 25-NOV-08 - 28-NOV-08, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
• Ging, Debbie, Titley, Gavan and Lentin, Alanna, All-consuming images: postfeminisms reconstruction of gender identities and relations, as part of panel entitled Subverting Radicality, 1968: Impact and Implications. BSA Theory Study Group Conference in collaboration with Birkbeck Institute for Social Research., 03-JUL-08 - 04-JUL-08, Birkbeck, University of London
• Ging, Debbie, All-Consuming Images: Consumerism, Media Commercialisation and the Reconstruction of Gender in Contemporary Ireland, NUIM Centre for Media Studies Lecture Series 2008, 05-MAR-08 - 05-MAR-08, NUI Maynooth, Ireland
• Ging, Debbie, New Lads or Protest Masculinities?: An Audience Study of the Meanings of Male Marginalisation in Contemporary Irish Film, IAMCR (International Association for Media and Communication Research) 50th Anniversary conference, 23-JUL-07 - 25-JUL-07, Paris, France
• Ging, Debbie, All-Consuming Images: New Gender Formations in Post-Celtic-Tiger Ireland, Mediating New Ireland: 3rd annual conference of the Irish Media Research Network, 15-JUN-07 - 15-JUN-07, Digital Hub, Dublin, Ireland
• Ging, Debbie, All the Rage: Postfeminism, Girl Power and Female Violence in Contemporary Mass Media, Gender and Violence: An Interdisciplinary Exploration, 18th annual conference of the Feminist and Women¿s Studies Association (UK & Ireland), 09-SEP-05 - 11-SEP-05, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
• Ging, Debbie, Exploring Masculinity in Contemporary Irish Cinema: An Audience Perspective (part of joint panel presentation entitled 'Gender in Irish Cinema: A Comparative Framework for Analysis', Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference 2005, 31-MAR-05 - 03-APR-05, Institute of Education, London
• Ging, Debbie, Invisible Voices, Inaudible Images: the Representation / Articulation of Marginalised Identities in Contemporary Irish Cinema, Double Vision: Liminal Irish Identities, 18-MAR-05 - 20-MAR-05, UCD, Dublin
• Ging, Debbie, Globalization and the Representation of Marginalised Identities in Contemporary Irish Cinema, Colloquium on Globalization, Culture and Civil Society, 08-FEB-05 - 08-FEB-05, DIT Dundalk
• Ging, Debbie, Masculinity and the Media: A Study of Male Transition Year Students in Ireland, Boys, Men and Masculinities Conference, 02-APR-04 - 02-APR-04, Irish Writers' Centre, Dublin
• Ging, Debbie and Malcolm, Jackie, 'Media Models of Interculturalism in Ireland', 'What's the Culture in Multiculturalism? What's the Difference of Identities?', 22-MAY-03 - 24-MAY-03, University of Aarhus, Denmark
• Ging, Debbie, Representations of Masculinity in the films of Bigas Luna, Spanish Cinema Lecture Series, 30-APR-02 - 30-APR-02, Irish Film Institute, Dublin
• Ging, Debbie, Malcolm, Jackie and Connolly, Maeve, Introduction: Working Group on Media and Interculturalism, Forum on Media and Interculturalism, 21-MAR-02 - 22-MAR-02, Dublin City University
• Ging, Debbie, Ireland and its Others: Racism, Modernity and Multiculturalism in Cinema, Cultures in Transition (Joint Faculty of Humanities Interdisciplinary Conference) , 18-FEB-00 - 19-FEB-00, Dublin City University
• Ging, Debbie, The Politics of Sound and Image: Eisenstein, Artifice and Acoustic Montage in Contemporary Feminist Cinema, Celebrate Eisenstein, 02-DEC-98 - 05-DEC-98, UCD, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2