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Let's Talk About Ditching Plastics At Festivals, Ellen Foley
Let's Talk About Ditching Plastics At Festivals, Ellen Foley
Case Studies
Student blog series from MSc in Event Management students at TU Dublin. In this blog post Ellen Foley asks is it time to stop using plastic at festivals. She discusses how how Education and collaboration are the two vital ingredients that festival planners must embrace in order to tackle this ever-pressing problem. It’s time to get creative and work together to ditch the plastic.
In An Era Of Fake News, Information Literacy Has A Role To Play In Journalism Education In Ireland, Isabelle Courtney
In An Era Of Fake News, Information Literacy Has A Role To Play In Journalism Education In Ireland, Isabelle Courtney
Irish Communication Review
Framed by the problem of fake news and misinformation, a recent study into journalism education in Ireland focused on the overlaps that exist between two professions: journalism and librarianship. The emerging literature on fake news is overwhelmingly coming from these two disciplines. Historically both have deep roots in truth and fact and employ a specific range of tools for the evaluation of information. Librarians use a framework called information literacy, while journalism educators speak of media literacy, fact-checking and verification of sources. With the many overlaps in media and information literacy, journalists and librarians would appear to be natural partners …
Journalism Education In Ireland, Nora French
Journalism Education In Ireland, Nora French
Irish Communication Review
The start of journalism education in Ireland is generally dated from the 1960s with the setting up of the journalism course in the College of Commerce, Rathmines. However, there were some earlier initiatives in the first decade of the 20th century. A series of lectures was organised by the Institute of Journalists in Trinity College Dublin in 1908-9 (Hunter, 1982; Institute of Journalists, 1909) and journalism is said to have become a degree subject in Queens College/University College Cork around the same time (Stephenson and Mory, 1990; Murphy, 1995). These efforts appear to have rapidly faded. They coincide with similar …
Media Education In Ireland: An Overview, Brian O'Neill
Media Education In Ireland: An Overview, Brian O'Neill
Irish Communication Review
The Irish educational system is frequently celebrated as a world class system that is held in high domestic esteem, has contributed substantially to Ireland’s economic success and been compared very favourably with our counterparts elsewhere in the European Union. Such contentment belies the fact that it has also been a system very slow to change, is notoriously centralised and has only in the last decade instituted significant legislative reform that will enable and facilitate the growth of new curricular areas such as media studies – the topic of this article – an area in which Ireland lags substantially behind our …
Television And Schools, Sheelagh Drudy
Television And Schools, Sheelagh Drudy
Irish Communication Review
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Alcohol Analysis Of Breath And Urine To Support Drink Driving Awareness In Students, Megan Haverty
Alcohol Analysis Of Breath And Urine To Support Drink Driving Awareness In Students, Megan Haverty
Students Learning with Communities
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Journalism Education In Ireland, Nora French
Media Education In Ireland: An Overview, Brian O'Neill