Dónal Mulligan
Dr.

Dónal Mulligan is a lecturer and researcher at Dublin City University's School of Communications, where he works on interdisciplinary digital research topics, and teaches on a range of modules related to digital media analysis, design and production.
His doctoral research focussed on the study of Irish political discourse on Twitter, amongst which the 2015 Marriage Referendum was a major case study. He is interested in how identity and political discourse are mediated in the structured conversational spaces of social media, and how the emergent field of computational social science addresses and answers these issues with new methodologies. Especially relevant here are the application and development of ethics in digital research.
Dónal Mulligan is a member of the RIA Irish Humanities Alliance board, and working group on Digital Humanities. He has co-founded and is currently a committee member of DCU's Interdisciplinary Digital Research Group, more details on which are available at: hybridresearch.org
He was a co-investigator (2015 - 2017) on an Erasmus+ project investigating the use and efficacy of tablet technologies in the European classroom, and maintains a research interest in the effective use of communicative media technologies in educational settings.
His doctoral research focussed on the study of Irish political discourse on Twitter, amongst which the 2015 Marriage Referendum was a major case study. He is interested in how identity and political discourse are mediated in the structured conversational spaces of social media, and how the emergent field of computational social science addresses and answers these issues with new methodologies. Especially relevant here are the application and development of ethics in digital research.
Dónal Mulligan is a member of the RIA Irish Humanities Alliance board, and working group on Digital Humanities. He has co-founded and is currently a committee member of DCU's Interdisciplinary Digital Research Group, more details on which are available at: hybridresearch.org
He was a co-investigator (2015 - 2017) on an Erasmus+ project investigating the use and efficacy of tablet technologies in the European classroom, and maintains a research interest in the effective use of communicative media technologies in educational settings.
Peer Reviewed Journal
Year | Publication | |
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2020 | O'Sullivan, G; Chew, D; Kenny, G; Hendrichs, I; Mulligan, D (2020) 'The trace element composition of apatite and its application to detrital provenance studies'. Earth-Science Reviews, 201 . Link |
Conference Publication
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2018 | Mulligan, Dónal (2018) Innovations and Design in Online and Blended Learning (EdTech 2018) Developing an online peer review tool for university group project based assessment Ireland, Link | |
2017 | Mulligan, Dónal (2017) Queering Ireland 2017: 19th Annual USC Comparative Literature Conference . In: Madden, E eds. Social change, 140 characters at a time: A Bourdieusian analysis of the discourse of topical Irish political discourse on Twitter Columbia, South Carolina, | |
2015 | Mulligan, Dónal (2015) Fifth Annual Postgraduate Conference in Humanities and Education Tracking Twitter: Quantitative methodological imperatives derived from qualitative interviewing |
Discussion Paper
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2017 | Mulligan, Dónal; Judge, Miriam (2017) Systematic evaluation of educational apps: The MICOOL App Rubric. Dublin, Ireland: DP Link |
Book Review
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2010 | Mulligan, Dónal (2010) Queer Notions: New Plays and Performances from Ireland. Alberta, Canada: BREV Link |
Conference Contribution
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Research Interests
Digital Research Methods, Digital Research Ethics, Interdisciplinary Research, Online activism, Political Discourse on Twitter, Technology in Education
Teaching Interests
- Interactive & Responsive Media Production
- Digital Mediated Communication, especially data literacy and communications
- Programming and Design for engaging Interactivity
- Pedagogy & Teaching Practice for Practical & Production Modules
- Group-based Assessment Strategies & Good Practice
- Interdisciplinary Approaches in Digital T&L