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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Counter sites: On site-specific performance and the re-historicizing of space
(2011)
The aim of this research is to examine how government funding, through the creation of a cultural policy framework, can facilitate and support site-specific performance and highlight its value, particularly at sites of ...