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Design strategies and dyslexia: Improving the accessibility of course material for third-level students with dyslexia
(2015)
This thesis examines the challenges faced by third-level students with dyslexia when reading course material by drawing on information obtained directly from students through one-to-one semi-structured interviews. By ...
Development of Open Source tools for creative and commercial exploitation of spatial audio
(2017)
This research deals with Binaural audio, and the technology behind this. Binaural processing aims to give listeners the same experience on a set of headphones that they get in the real world, sounds can be perceived from ...
A study of the economic and social impact of the arts in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County
(2012)
With public spending on the arts coming under ever greater scrutiny, studies of the economic and social impact of the arts need to make a stronger, more impartial case for the continuation of funding. A number of reports ...
Brands, online collaboration and social media. A case study - Starbucks
(2010)
The evolution of the Internet is one of the main driving forces behind competitive activity in today's markets. Consumer purchasing habits, as a result of the internet, is also changing rapidly. Professional marketers need ...
Bord na Mona - A case study: The challenges of embedding an eco-entrepreneurial ethos
(2015)
This study is concerned with the emerging concept of ecological entrepreneurship, whereby a business is operated in an economically, environmentally and socially sustainable fashion. This research explores the relevance ...
The impact of digital and social media on the news consumption and democratic engagement of 25 to 35 year olds
(2017)
In recent years, changing media consumption patterns, especially the increased use of interactive media, has fuelled optimism about the enhanced possibilities for democratic participation and active citizenship. For the ...
A place like all others: Picturing global capital in urban space
(2018)
This practice-led thesis addresses the representation of urban space within the context of globalised economies and increased capital flows between nations. Drawing on ethnographic practices, interviews taken from the ...
The impact of digital and social media on the news consumption and democratic engagement of 25 to 35 year olds
(2015)
In recent years, changing media consumption patterns, especially the increased use of interactive media, has fuelled optimism about the enhanced possibilities for democratic participation and active citizenship. For the ...
"Behold" photography, memory and material culture
(2012)
Historian and theorist Martha Langford has defined the family archive as a "meeting place". This metaphor generates a context for the performance of tactile and sonic registers. As the archive is awakened by the hands that ...
Digital ethics: Photojournalism and the public sphere in the age of citizen journalism and the camera phone
(2011)
Conventionally the media industries have a long history of being one-way transmitters of information, chief arbiters of public sphere discourse - closed fortresses regarding input from the public. An inevitable aspect to ...