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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 ...
Arts programming on Irish public service television: Ideas, conflicts, and contradictions
(2009)
This study explores the historical relationship between public service television and the arts in Ireland and considers how this relationship has influenced the current range and quality of arts programmes on Irish public ...
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 ...
Cyberbullying: A new dimension to an old problem
(2009)
Shariff and Gouin (2005) describe cyberbullying as psychological bullying, enacted using electronic communication tools such as; mobile phones, blogs, websites, and chat rooms. The aim of this research was to examine the ...
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 image after tomorrow - Digital culture & the family archive
(2008)
Analogue photography has a rich history of putting into order the chaos of familial histories. Traditionally, the family album was dependent on object materiality for its existence. In its manifestation as book, memory-time ...
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 ...