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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...