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DJ6123: Dissertation: Journalism, communication and media
15 months long | Credits: 30
This is a capstone research module where students will have the opportunity to engage in a substantial piece of independent research into an academic subject within the field of journalism, media and/or the wider communications field.
Students will plan and produce research on a particular topic, drawing on appropriate scholarship in the field, and will be guided through the process of preparing for and producing the dissertation via regular academic supervision with an assigned supervisor.
(Language of instruction: English)
Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate familiarity with a broad range of research literature in the area of journalism studies.
- Choose and situate a project within the context of an existing body of scholarly investigation, and appropriate areas of professional practice.
- Apply appropriate humanistic and social science theories to problems in the field of journalism studies.
- Choose and implement appropriate research methodologies.
- Produce academic writing that adheres to professional conventions and standards within the field of journalism studies.
- Articulate ideas to present a convincing academic argument.
Assessments
- Research (100%)
Teachers
- UINSIONN MAC DUBHGHAILL:
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- KAREN M WALSH:
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- TOM FELLE:
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- Kelly Fincham:
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- Jonathan Albright:
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Reading List
- "Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks" by Meenakshi Gigi Durham (Editor), Douglas M. Kellner (Editor)
ISBN: 9780470658086.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell - "Key Readings in Journalism" by Elliot King (Editor), Jane Chapman (Editor)
ISBN: 9780415880282.
Publisher: Routledge - "Irish media" by John Horgan
ISBN: 0415216419.
Publisher: London ; Routledge, 2001 - "News: The Politics of Illusion" by W. Lance Bennett
ISBN: 0205082416.
Publisher: Pearson Education - "The Media Studies Reader" by Laurie Ouellette (Editor)
ISBN: 9780415801256.
Publisher: Routledge - "Media in Ireland" by Ireland) Cleraun Media Conference 1998 (Dublin, Damien Kiberd (Editor)
ISBN: 9781851825097.
Publisher: Four Courts Pr Ltd - "Media in Ireland" by Ireland) Cleraun Media Conference 2000 (Dublin, Damien Kiberd (Editor)
ISBN: 9781851826247.
Publisher: Open Air - "Media in Ireland" by Damien Kiberd
ISBN: 9781851823154.
Publisher: Four Courts Press - "Bicycle highway" by edited by Rosemary Day
ISBN: 9781905785377.
Publisher: Liffey Press - "Democracy without citizens" by Robert M. Entman
ISBN: 019506576X.
Publisher: Oxford University Press - "Keywords" by Raymond Williams
ISBN: 0006861504.
Publisher: Fontana Press - "Television" by Raymond Williams; edited by Ederyn Williams; with a new preface by Roger Silverstone
ISBN: 9780415314565.
Publisher: London ; Routledge, 2003. - "Empire and Communications" by Harold A. Innis, Alexander John Watson (Introduction)
ISBN: 1550026623.
Publisher: Dundurn Press - "The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction" by Walter Benjamin; translated by J. A. Underwood
ISBN: 9780141036199.
Publisher: Penguin - "James Carey" by Eve Stryker Munson and Catherine A. Warren, editors
ISBN: 0816627037.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press - "The culture industry" by Theodor W. Adorno; edited and with an introduction by J. M. Bernstein
ISBN: 0415253802.
Publisher: London ; Routledge, 2001. - "Manufacturing consent" by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky; with a new introduction by the authors
ISBN: 0375714499.
Publisher: Pantheon Books - "Culture and imperialism" by Edward W. Said
ISBN: 0679750541.
Publisher: Vintage Books - "Rethinking media theory" by Armand Mattelart + Mich�le Mattelart; translated by James A. Cohen and Marina Urquidi
ISBN: 0816619107.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press - "The invention of communication" by Armand Mattelart; translated by Susan Emanuel
ISBN: 0816626979.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press - "Theories of communication" by Armand Mattelart and Mich?ele Mattelart; translated by Susan Gruenheck Taponier and James A. Cohen
ISBN: 0761956476.
Publisher: Sage - "The economic regulation of broadcasting markets" by edited by Paul Seabright and J�rgen von Hagen
ISBN: 9780521696340.
Publisher: Cambridge ; Cambridge University Press, c2007. - "Comparing media systems" by Daniel C. Hallin, Paolo Mancini
ISBN: 9780521543088.
Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; Cambridge University Press, 2004. - "Understanding Media Industries" by Timothy Havens, Amanda Lotz
ISBN: 9780195397673.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA - "Theorizing communication" by Dan Schiller
ISBN: 0195101995.
Publisher: Oxford University Press - "Critical theories of mass media" by Paul A. Taylor and Jan Ll. Harris
ISBN: 0335218113.
Publisher: McGraw Hill/Open University Press
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