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Dr. Eoin Devereux
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Head of Department and Senior Lecturer in SociologyOffice Hours Autumn Semester 2009: Wednesdays 12-1 @ F1004 or by appointment at eoin.devereux@ul.ie
Biographical Details:
From Limerick City, Eoin was educated at NUI Galway where he studied Sociology, Politics and History at undergraduate level and Sociology at postgraduate level. He holds a PhD from the School of Communications at Dublin City University.
Eoin’s latest books are: Understanding The Media 2nd edition (2007) a textbook for undergraduate media students and an edited collection called Media Studies: Key Issues and Debates (2007). Both are published by Sage: London.
Media Studies: Key Issues and Debates will be published in Cantonese in late 2009.
Understanding The Media 2nd edition will be published in Korean in 2010.
Along with Aileen Dillane and Martin Power he is editing a book of essays on Morrissey called Morrissey: Fandom, Representations and Identities which is due for publication by Intellect Books in early 2011.
Professional Activities:
Referee, OUP.
Referee, Irish Journal of Sociology.
Referee, Translocations.
Referee, European Journal of Communication.Referee, Peter Lang Publishers, New York.
Member, Editorial Board Sociology Compass, Blackwell Publishers (UK).
Member, International Editorial Board, Handbook of Communication Research (ICA, USA).
Eoin is an elected member of the University of Limerick Governing Authority. As a UL Governor, he is a member of the Access Committee and the Library Committee as well as being a member of the board of directors of the University Concert Hall Ltd.
Eoin contributes regularly to the print and broadcast media on media and other issues. Recent appearances include The Gerry Ryan Show (2fm) and The Ryan Tubridy Show (Radio 1), Newstalk, Spin Southwest, Phantom FM.
Awards
Excellence in Small Group Teaching, University of Limerick (2004).
Service to the Community, University of Limerick (2005).
Associations
Member, International Communication AssociationMember, Popular Culture Association
Member, Sociological Association of Ireland
Member, Editorial Board Sociology Compass
Member, Editorial Board Communications Yearbook Volume 34.
Research Interests
My research interests lie in cultural and economic sociology focusing specifically on media analysis, social exclusion and poverty.
Initially, I was interested in the sociology of community development in both rural and urban Ireland. My research career began by examining the workings of Muintir na Tire in the period 1931-1988. It focused in particular on how class conflict affected attempts at rural community development.
Since the mid 1990s my research has focused on media representations of poverty and social exclusion in the print and broadcast media in Ireland. This work has led to further collaborative research on the perspectives of Irish media professionals on social exclusion issues as well as a long-term research project on media coverage of and public beliefs about immigrants in Ireland.
Currently, I am researching in the area of the sociology of popular culture - with a particular emphasis on fan culture(s).
CONFERENCES ORGANISED
In April 2009 we organised a very successful second symposium on Morrissey.
Full details may be had from www.myspace.com/mozsymposium
Current Research
Current Research Projects 2009-10
- Morrissey's fandom with particular reference to debates about fandom and identity formation. This work is focused in particular on Morrissey's immigrant Latino fans in Los Angeles as well as the use of religious discourses amongst fans generally.
- An edited book with Aileen Dillane and Martin Power on Morrissey (due for publication in early 2011).
- Public attitudes and beliefs concerning immigrants in Irish Society (with Dr. Amanda Haynes and Dr. Michael Breen).
- Irish print media coverage of immigration (with Dr. Amanda Haynes and Dr. Michael Breen).
- Print and Broadcast Media Coverage of Moyross and Limerick City - especially in the context of Regeneration (with Dr. Amanda Haynes and Dr. Martin Power). This work is part of the Seven Estates Study led by Professor Tony Fahey (UCD).
Teaching Academic Year 2009-10
Current Teaching:Undergraduate: SO4033 Sociology of Media (Autumn Semester).
Postgraduate: SO5022 Researching Irish Media Audiences (MA in Irish Media Studies and MA in Journalism) (Spring Semester).
Individual course sites for each of the above courses are available on SULIS
Current PhD Supervision:
Katarzyna Ramsey: This project is examining print media coverage of Polish migration to Ireland.
Denis Maher: This project is examining workplace based partnership in Ireland.
Books
(2007) Understanding The Media 2nd edn. London: Sage. Reprinted (2008).(2007) (ed.) Media Studies: Key Issues and Debates. London: Sage.
(2003) Understanding The Media. London: Sage.
(1998) Devils and Angels: Television, Ideology and The Coverage of Poverty. Luton: John Libbey Media.
Book Chapters
(2010) (Forthcoming) 'Heaven Knows We'll Soon Be Dust: The Smiths, Catholicism and Fan Devotion' in C. Coulter and S. Campbell (eds) Why Pamper Life's Complexities? Essays on The Smiths. Manchester: Manchester University Press. (2010)
(2009) (Forthcoming) (with A. Haynes and M. Power) 'Behind The Headlines: Media Coverage of Social Exclusion in Limerick City – The Case of Moyross' in N. Hourigan (ed.) Understanding Limerick. Cork University Press.
(2009)'I'm not the man you think I am: Authenticity, Ambiguity and the cult of Morrissey' in E. Haverinen, U. Kovala and V. Rautavuoma (eds) Cult, Community, Identity. Research Center for Contemporary Culture of the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
(2008) (with A. Haynes and M. J. Breen) 'Public exercises in othering: Irish media representations of asylum seeking'. In B. Farago (ed) Facing the Other: Interdisciplinary Studies on Race, Gender and Social Justice in Ireland. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press.
(2006) 'Being Wild(e) About Morrissey: Fandom and Identity' in M. Corcoran and M. Peillon (eds.) Uncertain Ireland: A sociological chronicle 2003-2004. Dublin: IPA. A download of the chapter is HYPERLINK "http://www.ul.ie/sociology/Morrissey.pdf" available here. Reproduced by kind permission of the IPA, Dublin, © Eoin Devereux and IPA (2006)
(2006) (with A. Haynes and M. J. Breen) 'Citizens, Loopholes and Maternity Tourists: Media Frames in the Citizenship Referendum'. In Corcoran, M. and Peillon, M., Uncertain Ireland: A Sociological Chronicle 2003-2004. Dublin: IPA.
(2006) 'Naming and Framing: Irish Print Media Coverage of Asylum Seekers and Refugees' in Breen, M., E. Devereux and A. Haynes, Media and Migration, The Dialogue Series 6 UCSIA Antwerp.
(2005) Media and Mass Media in Austin Harrington, Barbara Marshall and Hans-Peter Muller (eds.) The Routledge Encyclopedia of Social Theory. London: Routledge.
(2004) (With M. Breen) 'No racists here: Public Opinion and Media Treatment of Asylum Seekers and Refugees.' In Neil Collins and Terry Cradden (eds.) Political Issues in Ireland To-day. 3rd edn. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
(2000) 'A Media Famine' in Michel Peillon and Eamon Slater (eds.) Memories of The Present. Dublin: IPA, pp. 199-210.
(1997) 'The Theatre of Reassurance: Glenroe, its Audience and The Coverage of Social Problems' in Mary Kelly and Barbara O'Connor (eds.) Media Audiences in Ireland. Dublin: UCD Press, pp. 231-248.
(1993) 'Negotiating Community: The Case of an Inner-City Community Development Group' in Chris Curtin, Hastings Donnan and Thomas Wilson (eds.) Irish Urban Cultures. Belfast: Institute for Irish Studies pp. 63-79.
Refereed Journal Articles:
(2009) (Forthcoming) (with M.J. Breen, H. Magee, C. O'Boyle and H. Goode) 'Suing the Pope and scandalising the people: Irish attitudes to sexual abuse by clergy pre- and post-screening of a critical documentary' Irish Communications Review Vol. 14. September
(2009) (with A. Haynes and M.J. Breen) 'In The Know? Media, Migration and Public Beliefs' Translocations, Vol. 4 No. 2. July.
(2005) (with A. Haynes and M. J. Breen) 'Fear, Framing and Foreigners: The othering of immigrants in the Irish print media'. International Journal of Critical Psychology, Vol. 16, pp. 100-121.
(2005) (with A. Haynes and M. J. Breen) "Smuggling Zebras for Lunch": Media framing of asylum seekers in the Irish print media. Étúdes Irlandaises, printemps, 2005 N° 30-1.
(2003) (with A. Haynes and M. J. Breen) 'Setting Up Margins: Public attitudes and media construction of poverty and exclusion in Ireland'. Journal of Irish-Nordic Studies, Volume 2 (1).
(2000) (with A. Haynes) HYPERLINK "http://www.wacc.org.uk/wacc/publications/media_development/archive/2000_1/irish_print_media_coverage_of_the_1998_sudanese_crisis_the_case_of_the_irish_times" 'Irish Print Media Coverage of the 1998 Sudanese Crisis: The Case of The Irish Times' Media Development 1/2000, pp. 20-23.
(1996) 'Good Causes, God's Poor and Telethon Television' Media, Culture and Society pp. 47-68.
(1995) 'Symbolizing Exclusion: The Codes and Conventions of Current Affairs Television' The Irish Journal of Sociology Vol. 5 1995 pp. 110-134.
(1994) 'Devils and Angels: The Rise of Irish Telethon Television' Irish Communications Review Vol. 4 pp. 60-68.
(1993) 'The Lonely Furrow: Muintir na Tire and Irish Community Development 1931-1991' Community Development Journal Vol. 28 no. 1 pp. 45-55.
(1992) 'Community Development - Problems in Practice: The Muintir na Tire Experience, 1931-1958' Administration Vol. 39 No. 4 pp. 351-370.
(1991) 'Saving Rural Ireland: Muintir na Tire and its Anti-Urbanism, 1931-1958' Canadian Journal of Irish Studies Vol. 17 No. 2 December pp. 23-31.
(1992) (with C. Curtin and D. Shields) 'Replaying 'The Match': Marriage Settlements in North Galway' The Irish Journal of Sociology Vol. 2 1992.
Keynote Addresses
(2007) 'I'm not the man you think I am: Morrissey, Fandom and Identity' Cult and Identity Conference, Academy of Finland, University of Jyvlaska, September 3rd.(2006) (with A. Haynes and M. J. Breen) 'Dreams of a simpler future: Exploring the relationship between technological attitudes and general happiness'. Keynote address to the Polish Academy of Science's Institute of Fundamental Technological Research (Polska Akademia Nauk: Instytut Podstawowych Problemów Techniki), Warsaw, Poland as part of the Sophia Europa 'Culture, Technology, and Religion in Society' initiative, March 1st – 4th.
Refereed Conference Papers Since 2001
(2009) (with A. Magliocco) 'Desperate for What? Irish Male Fans of Desperate Housewives' Transforming Audiences 2, University of Westminster, London, September 4th. (2009)
‘Some Kind of Religious Figure? Morrissey, Catholicism and Fan Devotion’ International Communication Association Conference, Chicago, May. (2009)
(with A. Haynes and M. Breen) ‘ In The Know? Media and Public Attitudes towards Inward Migration’ International Communication Association Conference, Chicago, May. (2009)
(with A. Haynes and M. Power) ‘Media Representations of Moyross, Limerick’, Sociological Association of Ireland Conference, Waterford Institute of Technology, May 8-10.(2008) (with A. Haynes and M. Breen) ‘Communicating Difference: Constructions of Inward Migration in the Public Sphere’ Conference on Communications and Humanity, LSE, London.
(2008) ‘The Songs That Saved Your Life: Fan Discourses about The Smiths and Morrissey’ SAI Annual Conference, NUIG.
(2008) ‘Heaven Knows We’ll Soon Be Dust: The Smiths, Catholicism and Fan Devotion’ Department of Sociology/IWAMD Seminar The Songs That Saved Your Life: A Symposium on Morrissey, University of Limerick.(2007) 'I'll Never Be Anybody's Hero Now: Morrissey, Fandom and Identity', Queer Theory Panel, The Popular Culture/American Culture Conference, Boston, MA, April 4-7, 2007.
(2007) (with A. Haynes and M. J. Breen) 'Barbarians at the Gates? The implications of migration for religion in Europe'. Paper presented at the European Society for Catholic Theology Conference, All Hallows College, Dublin, 14th May, 2007.
(2007) (with A. Haynes and M. J. Breen) 'Teasing out the Tangled Threads: How audiences negotiate media content about refugees, asylum seekers and migrants'. Paper presented at the Sociological Association of Ireland Annual Conference, University of Limerick, 11th – 13th May, 2007.
(2006) (with A. Haynes and M. J. Breen) 'Othering Discourses and The Production of Fear' CRESC 2nd Annual Conference, Media, Change and Social Theory, Oxford, UK, September 6-8th.
(2006) (with A. Haynes and M. J. Breen) 'Construction, Conflation and Content: Irish Media Coverage of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Ireland' Paper presented at the ISA Conference, Durban, South Africa, July.
(2006) (with Breen, M.J., McGee, H., O'Boyle, C. & Goode, H.) 'Suing the Pope and scandalising the people: Irish attitudes to clergy sexual abuse'. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, June 19-23, Dresden, Germany
(2006) 'The Last Night at The Fair -- Morrissey and the Festive and The Tragic' Paper presented to the SOFEIR Conference, The Festive and the Tragic in Irish Life, Besancon, France, March 28th.
(2005) (with A. Haynes and M. Breen) ''The Blessed Trinity: A Critical Methodological Approach to Media Coverage of Recent Inward Migration in Ireland', ACIS Conference 'Ireland Beyond Borders', University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, USA.
(2005) (with A. Haynes and M. Breen) 'Telling US who THEY are: Analysing the relationship between Irish newspaper content on refugees and asylum seekers with public attitudes to these groups and individuals', ACIS Conference 'Ireland Beyond Borders', University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, USA.
(2005) (with A. Haynes and M. Breen) 'Fear, Framing and Foreigners: The Significance of Fear to the Representation of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in the Irish Media', ACIS Conference 'Ireland Beyond Borders', University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, USA.
(2005) (with A. Haynes and M. Breen) Public Exercises in Othering: Irish Media Coverage of Asylum Seekers. Double-Vision: Liminal Identities Conference, University College Dublin.
(2005) (with A. Haynes and M. Breen) 'Immigrants, Emigrants and Me' DCU/DIT Power, Trust and Ethics Conference, June 10th.
(2004) (with A. Haynes and M. Breen) 'Media and Refugees: How media coverage influences people's (negative) attitudes on refugees and asylum seekers'. Universitair Centrum Sint-Ignatius Antwerpen (UCSIA) conference on 'Solidarity in Europe: are migration and enlargement real challenges?' September 22-24.
(2004) (With A. Haynes and M. Breen) 'From 'King-Con' to 'Con Artists' Irish Media Coverage of Asylum Seekers and Refugees. Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA.
(2004) (With A. Haynes and M. Breen) 'Go Home You Randy Thieving Bastards -- Irish Media Coverage of Asylum Seekers and Refugees' Limimal Borderlands Conference, Nordic Irish Studies Network Conference, Falun Sweden.
(2004) (With A. Haynes and M. Breen) Hegemony Disguised: How Discourse Analysis is Inadequate in the Disclosure on the Real Locus of Social Control. Postmodernism: The Global Moment Conference Kogakuin University, Tokyo.
(2004) (With A. Haynes and M. Breen) A Cosy Consensus on Deviant Discourse: How the refugee and asylum seeker meta-narrative has endorsed an interpretative crisis in relation to the transnational politics of the world's displaced persons. Postmodernism: The Global Moment Conference Kogakuin University, Tokyo.
(2003) (With M. Breen and A. Haynes) 'Smuggling Zebras for Lunch: The Irish Print Media and Coverage of Asylum Seekers and Refugees' EFACIS Conference: Representation and Responsibility, Braga, Portugal.
(2002) (With M. Breen and A. Haynes) 'Perception is Power: Irish Media Professionals and Social Exclusion' Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference Tampere, Finland.
(2001) (With M. Breen) 'Blind, Deaf and Dumb: The Media, the Middle-Class and the Representation of Poverty' EFACIS Conference Ireland and Europe at times of Reorientation and Re-imagining University of Arhus, Denmark.
(2001) 'God's Poor or Devil's Poor? Media Representation of the Irish Travelling Community' American Conference of Irish Studies Fordham University, New York.