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Keepers Of The Port: Visualising Place And Identity In A Dublin Dock Community, Moira Sweeney
Keepers Of The Port: Visualising Place And Identity In A Dublin Dock Community, Moira Sweeney
Doctoral
This practice-based thesis responds to the absence of documentary film or photographic studies and scholarship that embrace the contrasting experiences of different dock working constituencies in the transforming early twenty-first century space of Dublin Port. It is a filmic investigation into how the experiences and memories of this community of workers in Dublin’s surviving port space shape their urban identity and sense of place, undertaken with regard to the sensuous, haptic qualities of documentary and ethnographic filmmaking. In the ever-shifting world of neoliberalism, its narratives – in relation to labour practices – prioritise faceless markets over the humanity of working …
Working The News: Preserving Professional Identity Through Networked Journalism At Elite News Media, Jenny Hauser
Working The News: Preserving Professional Identity Through Networked Journalism At Elite News Media, Jenny Hauser
Doctoral
The concept of journalism as a profession has arguably been fraught and contested throughout its existence. Ideologically, it is founded on a claim to norms and a code of ethics, but in the past, news media also held material control over mass communication through broadcast and print which were largely inaccessible to most citizens. The Internet and social media has created a news environment where professional journalists and their work exist side-by-side with non-journalists. In this space, acts of journalism also can be and are carried out by non-journalists. Through the new news distribution channels offered by social media, non-journalists …