Tag Archives: DCU-Dublin City University
Architecture of Participation
In proper Web 2.0 style DCU Journalism student and fellow tweeter (as well as fellow BCFE alumnus) @cianginty is compiling a great list of Irish student journalists and media who tweet. I wont steal his links by quoting his text but I will just mention the two Twitter lists he has created here (of Journalists) [...]
DCU’s Hybrid Awards
By Piers Scott As the awards season finally draws to a close there remains one more event on the calendar, The Hybrids. The Hybrid Awards, DCU’s annual multimedia awards, take place this Wednesday in The Venue. According to the Media Production Society, who run the awards, this year saw 74 submissions across four categories. The [...]
Dublin City University’s Silver Surfers
WHILE SENATOR DAN BOYLE was attempting to bring down the government last week with the social networking site Twitter, JJ Higgins was doing something slightly more worthwhile. He was sending his first email. JJ (62), a retired postal worker, is among a growing number of older internet users in Ireland. A recent survey by the [...]
Mental Health Discrimination in Ireland
Amnesty Ireland has commissioned top DCU researchers to conduct the Republic’s first nationwide study into mental health discrimination. The five month study is part of Amnesty International’s larger three year study of mental health issues. The Irish study will look into the levels of discrimination faced by people with mental health problems. “Mental health issues [...]
Mashing my Thesis
“by 2010…(Mashups) will be the dominant model (80%) for the creation of new enterprise applications ” (Rust 2008) A few people have been asking me about my Multimedia Undergrad thesis so I thought I’d just take a few minutes to go over what we did. Mashup For my thesis myself and a few friends set [...]
