Anthony Quinn
Responsibilities
- Teaching Assistant in Journalism
Industry background:
Anthony Quinn worked for a decade as a researcher and journalist for online, print, radio and television outlets.
Academic background:
- Dip. Sound Engineering, Sound Training Centre, Dublin
- Adv. Dip. Communications (Journalism), first class, Dublin Institute of Technology
- B.Sc. Communications (Journalism), first class, Trinity College Dublin
- Postgraduate Cert. in Third Level Teaching and Learning, Dublin Institute of Technology
- PhD, completion in 2011, School of Media, Dublin Institute of Technology
- Tutor (part-time) 2006 to 2010, School of Media, Dublin Institute of Technology
Research interests:
- Political economy of media
- Media work
- Television
- Journalism
- Alternative media
- Technology and society
- Teaching and learning
Publications:
Entry on ‘Ireland’ in Sage Encyclopedia of Social Networking. Forthcoming.
‘Twenty exemplar television formats’ to be published in Brennan, E. (forthcoming) ‘A Political Economy of Formatted Pleasures’ in Oren, T and S. Shahaf (eds.) Global Television Formats Circulating Culture, Producing Identity. London: Routledge.
Book reviews:
Reviews of Understanding the Media by Devereux, E. and Media Studies: Key Issues and Debates by Devereux, E. (ed.) in Irish Communications Review (11, 2009)
Review for Media, Culture & Society journal of The Content of Media: Quality, Profit and Competition by Sanchez-Tabernero, A. (32.4, 2010)
Review for Media, Culture & Society of Production Studies: Cultural Studies of Media Industries by Mayer, V., Banks, M. and J. Caldwell (33.2, 2011)
Review for Media, Culture & Society of TV Formats Worldwide: Localizing Global Programs by Moran, A. (ed.). Forthcoming.
Review for Journal of Media Practice of Understanding Media Users: From Theory to Practice by Wilson, T. Forthcoming.
Papers presented:
Developing Ireland’s Contribution to the International Trade in Television Formats. Presented at Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association Postgraduate Conference in Coleraine, Northern Ireland (2006).
Indymedia Ireland and the CIA ‘Extraordinary Rendition’ Programme. Presented at Alternative Media and New Public Settings conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia (2006).
Glocalising identity: The Case of Formatted Television Programmes. Presented at Sociological Association of Ireland Post Graduate Conference in Dublin, Ireland (2006).
Using Complexity Theory to Study Television Formats. Presented at Sociological Association of Ireland Postgraduate Conference in Dublin, Ireland (2007)
Production Ecologies of Television. Presented at Dublin Institute of Technology / Columbia College, Chicago Joint Symposium in Dublin, Ireland (2007).
Actor-networking Television Formats. Presented at Political Economy of Information and Communication Techonologies Summerschool in Skagen, Denmark (2007).
‘Intellectual Property’ and Television Formats. Presented at Television without Borders: Transfers, Translations and Transnational Exchange Conference in University of Reading, UK (2008).
Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT): The issues for Ireland. Presented at DIT Centre for Consumption and Leisure Studies Seminar in Dublin (2008)
Television Formats and Changing Production Practices. Presented at Irish Media Research Network Conference in National University of Ireland Maynooth, Co. Kildare (2009).
(Un)covering ‘Extraordinary Rendition’ in Ireland. Presented at Global Media and the ‘War on Terror’ conference, University of Westminster, UK (2010)
The Use of Podcasts for Giving Generic Feedback. Presented at Conversations in the Consortium series, UL Centre for Teaching and Learning, Limerick (2011).