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Associate Professor Sean Phelan PhD

Associate Professor

Doctoral Supervisor
蹤獲扦 Business School - Deputy PVC's Office

Sean has been working at 蹤獲扦 Wellington since 2003 and has a PhD in Communications from Dublin City University. He teaches and researches in the field of critical communication and media studies. He is the co-editor of Discourse Theory and Critical Media Politics (2011) and Scooped: The Politics and Power of Journalism in Aotearoa New Zealand (2012), and his monograph,  was published in 2014. He returned to 蹤獲扦 in July 2022, after a period of extended leave where he worked as a at the Department of Communication Studies, University of Antwerp. 

 

Professional

Contact details

  • Ph: +64 4 801 5799 ext 62508
    Location: 50000000, Block 5
    Campus: Wellington

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy - Dublin City University (2003)

Certifications and Registrations

  • Licence, Supervisor, 蹤獲扦 University

Research Expertise

Research Interests

Critical communications and media studies; discourse theory and analysis; media and neoliberalism; critical political theory; political communication; cultural politics; journalism studies; global communication; field theory; research methodologies; media sociology.

Thematics

21st Century Citizenship

Area of Expertise

Field of research codes
Communication and Media Studies (200100): Cultural Studies (200200): Languages, Communication And Culture (200000)

Research Outputs

Journal

Phelan, S., & Maeseele, P. (2023). Critiquing “Mainstream Media” on Twitter: Between Moralized Suspicion and Democratic Possibility. International Journal of Communication. 17, 4304-4325
[Journal article]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2023). Seven theses about the so-called culture war(s) (or some fragmentary notes on ‘cancel culture’). Cultural Studies.
[Journal article]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S., & Maeseele, P. (2023). Where is ‘the political’ in the journal Political Communication? On the hegemonic articulation of a disciplinary identity. Annals of the International Communication Association. 47(2), 202-221
[Journal article]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Ashraf, SI., & Phelan, S. (2023). Journalism ‘fixers’, hyper-precarity and the violence of the entrepreneurial self. Journalism. 24(7), 1482-1498
[Journal article]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2022). Friends, enemies, and agonists: Politics, morality and media in the COVID-19 conjuncture. Discourse and Society. 33(6), 744-757
[Journal article]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Y廕積-Khanh, N., Phelan, S., & Gray, E. (2022). Neoliberalism and authoritarian media cultures: a Vietnamese perspective. Media, Culture and Society. 44(2), 230-246
[Journal article]Authored by: Gray, F., Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2022). What’s in a name? Political antagonism and critiquing ‘neoliberalism’. Journal of Political Ideologies. 27(2), 148-167
[Journal article]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S., & Phelan, S. (2021). When Speaking of Political Ontology. New Formations: a journal of culture/theory/politics. , 116-121
[Book Review]Authored by: Phelan, S.
van Raalte, A., Maeseele, P., & Phelan, S. (2021). Twitter as a right-wing populist's playground: The algorithmic populism of Dutch political party ‘Forum voor Democratie’ and leader Thierry Baudet during their political rise. Discourse, Context and Media. 44
[Journal article]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2020). Review of Richard Seymour’s The Twittering Machine. Media Theory.
[Journal article]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2019). Neoliberal Reason and the Displacement of Politics [William Davies, The Limits of Neoliberalism: Authority, Sovereignty and the Logic of Competition (revised edition) London: SAGE, 2017, 248 pp]. Counterfutures: Left Thought & Practice Aotearoa. (7), 116-129Retreived from https://counterfutures.nz/7/CF%207%20PHELAN.pdf
[Book Review]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2019). Neoliberalism, the Far Right, and the Disparaging of “Social Justice Warriors”. Communication, Culture and Critique. 12(4), 455-475 Retrieved from https://academic.oup.com/ccc/article/12/4/455/5643757
[Journal article]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S., & Salter, LA. (2021). ‘Just doing their job?’ Journalism, online critique and the political resignation of Metiria Turei. Journalism. 22(7), 1665-1681
[Journal article]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, SP. (2017). Idealising the political [Review of Lois McNay, The Misguided 蹤獲扦 for the Political: Social Weightlessness in Radical Democratic Theory]. New Formations: a journal of culture/theory/politics. (91)Retreived from https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/new-formations/91/reviews
[Book Review]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S., & Salter, LA. (2019). The Journalistic Habitus, Neoliberal(Ized) Logics, and the Politics of Public Education. Journalism Studies. 20(2), 154-172
[Journal article]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Salter, LA., & Phelan, S. (2017). The morality and political antagonisms of neoliberal discourse: Campbell Brown and the corporatization of educational justice. International Journal of Communication. 11, 3030-3050
[Journal article]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Dawes, Simon, SD. (2016). Understanding Neoliberalism, Media and the Political: An Interview with Sean Phelan. Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network. 9(5)
[Journal article]Contributed to by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, SP. (2016). It’s neoliberalism, stupid’ New Zealand media and the NZME-Fairfax merger. Counterfutures; Left Thought & Practice Aotearoa. 2(2), 193-202 Retrieved from http://counterfutures.nz/
[Journal article]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Bernanke, J., & Phelan, S. (2018). The Politics of Interfield Antagonisms: Journalism, the visual arts and the et al. controversy. Journalism Studies. 19(2), 297-314
[Journal article]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2016). Reinvigorating ideology critique: between trust and suspicion. Media, Culture and Society. 38(2), 274-283
[Journal article]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2015). LEARN TO WRITE BADLY: HOW TO SUCCEED IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES. CRITICAL DISCOURSE STUDIES. 12(4), 494-497
[Journal article]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S., & Dahlberg, L. (2014). Post-Marxist discourse theory and critical political economy INTRODUCTION. CRITICAL DISCOURSE STUDIES. 11(3), 255-256
[Journal article]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S., & Dahlberg, L. (2014). INTRODUCTION: Post-Marxist discourse theory and critical political economy. Critical Discourse Studies. 11(3), 255-256
[Journal article]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2013). Television Journalism. MEDIA INTERNATIONAL AUSTRALIA. (148), 161-162
[Journal article]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2007). The discursive dynamics of neo-liberal consensus: Irish broadsheet editorials and the privatization of Eircom. Journal of Language and Politics. 6(1), 7-28
[Journal article]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2013). The rise and fall of neo-liberalism: the collapse of an economic order?. CRITICAL DISCOURSE STUDIES. 10(1), 117-119
[Journal article]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2012). Neoliberalism, media and the return of Brash. New Zealand Journal of Media Studies (Online). 13(2), 4-17 Retrieved from http://www.nzmediastudies.org.nz/
[Journal article]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2012). The discourse of politics in action: Politics as usual by Ruth Wodak, 2009. Internations Journal of Media and Cultural Politics. 8(1), 130-133 Retrieved from http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/mcp/2012/00000008/00000001/art00008#trial
[Journal article]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2012). The University, the Media and the Politics of Voice. TOPIA-CANADIAN JOURNAL OF CULTURAL STUDIES. (28), 180-187
[Journal article]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2011). Media critique, agonistic respect and the (im)possibility of a “really quite pretentious” liminal space. Journalism Practice. 5(3), 272-286
[Journal article]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S., & Brereton, P. (2010). Neither with you or against you: Irish cultural representation of America after September 11. Cultural Studies. 24(6), 854-870
[Journal article]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S., & Owen, T. (2010). The Paradoxes of Media Globalization: On the Banal "World" of New Zealand Journalism. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION. 4, 27-53
[Journal article]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2009). The newspaper as political antagonist: Editorial discourse and the othering of Maori perspectives on the foreshore and seabed conflict. Journalism. 10(2), 217-237
[Journal article]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2009). The newspaper as political antagonist. Journalism. 10(2), 217-237
[Journal article]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S., & Shearer, F. (2009). The “radical”, the “activist” and the hegemonic newspaper articulation of the aotearoa new zealand foreshore and seabed conflict. Journalism Studies. 10(2), 220-237
[Journal article]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2008). Democracy, the academic field and the (New Zealand) journalistic habitus. Studies in Language and Capitalism. 3/4, 161-180 Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10179/1190
[Journal article]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2008). Book review: Ideology: explorations in contemporary social, political and cultural theory. Social Semiotics. 18(1), 101-107
[Journal article]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2008). Political communication: an introduction to disciplinary debates and preoccupations. The Review of Communication. 8(2), 181-184
[Journal article]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2007). Messy grand narrative or analytical blind spot? when speaking of neoliberalism. Comparative European Politics. 5, 328-338
[Journal article]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2007). The discourses of neoliberal hegemony: The case of the Irish Republic. Critical Discourse Studies. 4(1), 29-48
[Journal article]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2007). The discursive dynamics of neo-liberal consensus - Irish broadsheet editorials and the privatization of Eircom. JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE AND POLITICS. 6(1), 7-28
[Journal article]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2005). Review of Berger's media analysis techniques (3rd ed). Prism. 3(1), 1-2 Retrieved from http://www.prismjournal.org/vol_3_iss_1.html
[Journal article]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2005). In the name of the poor: Contesting political space for poverty reduction. Review of Political Economy. 17(4), 622-624
[Journal article]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S., Bernanke, J., & Fountaine, S. (2005). A 'heart to heart' on race relations: TVNZ's State of the Nation as public sphere discourse. Pacific Journalism Review. 11(1), 133-153 Retrieved from http://www.pjreview.info/articles/heart-heart-race-relations-tvnz-s-state-nation-public-sphere-discourse-758
[Journal article]Authored by: Fountaine, S., Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2004). Reading digital culture. PRism. 2(1), 1-2 Retrieved from http://www.prismjournal.org/homepage.html
[Journal article]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Martin, P., & Phelan, S. (2002). Representing Islam in the wake of September 11: A comparison of US television and CNN online messageboard discourses. Prometheus. 20(3), 263-269
[Journal article]Authored by: Phelan, S.

Book

Redden, G., Phelan, S., & Baker, C. (2019). Different routes up the same mountain? Neoliberalism in Australia and New Zealand. In Neoliberalism in Context: Governance, Subjectivity and Knowledge. (pp. 61 - 82).
[Chapter]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2018). Neoliberalism and media. In C. Damien, C. Melinda, K. Martijn, & . David Primrose (Eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Neoliberalism. (pp. 539 - 552). London, United Kingdom: SAGE Publications Ltd
[Chapter]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2017). Critical discourse analysis and media studies. In The Routledge Handbook of Critical Discourse Studies. (pp. 285 - 297).
[Chapter]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S.(2014). Neoliberalism, media and the political.
[Authored Book]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2014). Critiquing neoliberalism: Three interrogations and a defense. In LA. Lievrouw (Ed.) Challenging Communication Research. (pp. 27 - 41). Pieterlen, Switzerland: Peter Lang
[Chapter]Authored by: Phelan, S.
(2011). The media as the neoliberalized sediment: Articulating Laclau’s discourse theory with Bourdieu’s field theory.
[Edited Book]Authored by: Phelan, S.Edited by: Phelan, S.
Hirst, M., Phelan, S., & Rupar, V. (Eds.) (2012). Scooped: The politics and power of journalism in Aotearoa New Zealand. Auckland: Auckland University of Technology [AUT] Media
[Edited Book]Authored by: Phelan, S.Edited by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S., Rupar, V., & Hirst, M. (2012). Introduction: Journalism and journalism studies in Aotearoa New Zealand. In M. Hirst, S. Phelan, & V. Rupar (Eds.) Scooped: The politics and power of journalism in Aotearoa New Zealand. (pp. 11 - 26). Auckland: Auckland University of Technology [AUT] Media
[Chapter]Authored by: Phelan, S.Edited by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2012). Media power, journalism and agency. In M. Hirst, S. Phelan, & V. Rupar (Eds.) Scooped: The politics and power of journalism in Aotearoa New Zealand. (pp. 80 - 95). Auckland: Auckland University of Technology [AUT] Media
[Chapter]Authored by: Phelan, S.Edited by: Phelan, S.
(2011). Discourse theory and critical media politics.
[Edited Book]Authored by: Phelan, S.Edited by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S., & Dahlberg, L. (2011). Discourse theory and critical media politics: An introduction. In Discourse Theory and Critical Media Politics. (pp. 1 - 40).
[Chapter]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2011). The media as the neoliberalized sediment: Articulating Laclau’s Discourse Theory with Bourdieu’s Field Theory. In L. Dahlberg (Ed.) Discourse Theory and Critical Media Politics. (pp. 128 - 153). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
[Chapter]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2009). Irish neoliberalism, media, and the politics of discourse. In D. Ging, M. Cronin, & P. Kirby (Eds.) Transforming Ireland: Challenges, critique and resources. (pp. 73 - 88). Manchester, England: Manchester University Press
[Chapter]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2009). Asking the "difficult" questions - a comparative case study of British and Irish current affairs coverage in the immediate aftermath of September 11th. In T. Vestergaard, I. Lassen, & J. Strunck (Eds.) Constructing History, Society and Politics in Discourse: Multimodal Approaches. (pp. 67 - 84). Aalborg, Denmark: Aalborg University Press
[Chapter]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2005). Irish media, Iraq and the charge of anti-Americanism. In SA. Nohrstedt, & R. Ottosen (Eds.) Global War - Local Views: Media Images of the Iraq War. (pp. 171 - 186). Goteborg, Sweden: Nordicom
[Chapter]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2005). Modelling communication. In F. Sligo, & R. Bathurst (Eds.) Communication in the New Zealand Workplace: Theory and Practice. (pp. 15 - 28). Wellington, NZ: Software Technology New Zealand
[Chapter]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2004). "No room for neutrality": September 11 and the Irish Times. In SA. Nohrstedt, & RO. Eds (Eds.) U.S. and the Others: Global Media Images on "The War on Terror". (pp. 177 - 190). Goteborg, Sweden: Nordicom
[Chapter]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Martin, P., & Phelan, S. (2003). History and September 11: A comparison of online and network TV discourses. In AM. Noll (Ed.) Crisis Communications: Lessons from September 11. (pp. 167 - 184). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield
[Chapter]Authored by: Phelan, S.

Conference

Y廕積-Khanh, N., & Phelan, S. (2023). Authoritarian Neoliberal Statecraft and the Political Economy of Mis/Disinformation: Resituating Western-Centric Debates in a Vietnamese Context. Bulletin of Technology and Public Life. https://citap.pubpub.org/pub/wjedm75u/release/1: 2022 ICA pre-conference: What Comes After "Disinformation"?
[Conference Paper in Published Proceedings]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S.(2021, February). Morality, the political and contemporary media cultures. .
[Conference]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S.Media cultures and the (anti)politics of “sedimented antagonisms. . Raadzaal, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, SP. (2017). The necessity (and impossibility) of antagonism: on the use of the concept of neoliberalism. In N/A Vol. N/A , Canadian Communication Association conference
[Conference Abstract]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S.(2014). Neoliberal imaginaries, press freedom and the politics of leveson. . Seattle, United States of America
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S.(2013). Critiquing the critique of ‘neoliberalism’: a meta-analysis of discourses that question the value of the concept. . London, England
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2012, May). Neoliberalization, rational choice theory and the journalistic habitus. Presented at Canadian Communication Association [CCA] Annual Conference. Waterloo, ON, Canada.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S.Media democracy and the paradoxes of neoliberalization. . Phoenix, AZ, United States
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2012). Neoliberalization, rational choice theory and the journalistic habitus. In Canadian Communication Association [CCA] Annual Conference: Abstracts(pp. 1 - 1). , Canadian Communication Association [CCA] Annual Conference Canada: Canadian Communication Association
[Conference Abstract]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2008, January). So you do discourse analysis too? Some points of difference between two approaches. Presented at Media Communications and Cultural Studies Association Conference. Cardiff University, Wales.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2008, December). Suspicion, trust and critical media analysis. Presented at Contemporary Critical Theories Conference. Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, NZ.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2008, July). Democracy, the academic field and the (New Zealand) journalistic habitus. Presented at Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association. Wellington, NZ.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2008, June). Critical discourse studies, media analysis and logics of quantification. Presented at 3rd International Conference in Interpretive Policy Analysis. University of Essex, Essex, UK.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2008, June). Neoliberalization, ideological concealment and the logic of the journalistic field. Presented at 9th Essex Conference in Critical Political Theory Capitalism, Faith, Nature. University of Essex, Essex, UK.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S., & Shearer, FM. (2007, December). The 'radical', the 'activist' and the hegemonic coding of the foreshore and seabed conflict. Presented at Journalism Education Association of New Zealand Conference. 蹤獲扦 University, Wellington, NZ.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2006). The mediatized antagonism of the New Zealand/Aotearoa 'Foreshore and seabed' conflict. Political Studies Association Conference: Proceedings.
[Conference Paper in Published Proceedings]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2004, October). The construction of globalisation in political discourse: Some New Zealand and Irish illustrations. Presented at The 10th International Conference of the Iberian Association for Cultural Studies(IBACS): Culture and Society in the Age of Globalization. University of Burgos, Burgos, Spain.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2004, June). Postcolonial solidarity as discursive pose?. Presented at Colonialism and its Aftermath: An Interdisciplinary Conference. University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S., & Martin, P. (2002, August). Framing September 11th: A comparative case study of British and Irish current affairs coverage on September 12th. Presented at Constructing Image and Ideology in Mass Media Discourse. Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S., & Martin, P. (2002, April). Making sense of September 11th: A comparative case study of British and Irish current affairs coverage. Presented at What's News? The Syracuse University Symposium on the Nature of News. Syracuse University, NY.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Martin, P., & Phelan, S. (2002, October). Mass media framing and message board reception. Presented at Focus on September 11: Lessons in Communication. New York Law School, New York, NY.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Martin, P., & Phelan, S. (2002, February). Identification and dissent - Gatekeeper framing and online message board reception in the wake of September 11th. Presented at 'Cultures in Conflict' Interdisciplinary Conference. Saint Patrick's College, Dublin, Ireland.
[Conference Oral Presentation]Authored by: Phelan, S.

Other

Phelan, S., & Wijeysingha, V. (2023). Conscience or commodity: What role now for our public universities?. : Stuff
[Internet publication]Authored by: Phelan, S., Wijeysingha, V.
Phelan, S. (2023). The Banshees of Inisherin and the fixation on Irishness. : Media Theory blog
[Internet publication]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2022). Why legitimate criticism of the ‘mainstream’ media is in danger of being hijacked by anti-vax and ‘freedom’ movements. : The Conversation
[Internet publication]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2021, March). Critique, antagonism and online politics. Presented at Hold online. : Centre for Media Research, University of Ulster.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2021). Media critique in a very online world.
[Other]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2020, November). Journalism media critique and online publics. Presented at Held online. : Media, Policy and Culture research group, University of Antwerp.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2020). The Irish election and the possibility of a left populism.
[Other]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2013, September). Neoliberalization and the journalistic habitus.. In 蹤獲扦 University. Presented at 蹤獲扦 University, Wellington.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2012, November). The politics of antidisciplinarity.. Presented at 蹤獲扦 University, Wellington.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2012, August). Articulating neoliberalism in critical media analysis. In 蹤獲扦 Universtiy. Presented at 蹤獲扦 University, Wellington.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2010). Journalism power and critical pedagogy. Presented at 蹤獲扦 University, Wellington, New Zealand.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2008). Critical discourse studies and logics of quantification. Presented at Orebro University, Sweden.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2007). The politics of discourse analysis - some points of contestation between two approaches. Presented at Victoria University, Wellington, NZ.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2006). 'Beaches for all': the role of print media representation in the Othering of Maori perspectives on the foreshore and seabed conflict. Presented at 蹤獲扦 University, Wellington.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2005, October). Globalisation, neoliberalism and the Celtic Tiger. : Dublin City University, Centre for International Studies.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S., Bernanke, J., & Fountaine, SL. (2004, September). A 'heart-to-heart on race relations' - TVNZ's 'state of the nation' as public sphere discourse. : 蹤獲扦 University, Department of Communication and Journalism.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Fountaine, S., Phelan, S.
Phelan, S., Bernanke, J., & Fountaine, S.A heart to heart on race relations: Tvnz’s state of the nation as public sphere discourse.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Fountaine, S., Phelan, S.
Phelan, S. (2003, March). 'Showdown with Saddam': A comparative case study of the news framing of the Iraqi crisis on RTE and CBS television. : Institute of International Integration Studies, The University of Dublin.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Phelan, S.
Phelan, S., & Martin, P. (2001, November). 'We're all Israelis now'. : School of Communication, Dublin City University.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Phelan, S.

Thesis

Phelan, S. (2003). The influence of neo-liberal assumptions on media treatment of political economy in Ireland. (Doctoral Thesis, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland)
[Doctoral Thesis]Authored by: Phelan, S.

Teaching and Supervision

Summary of Doctoral Supervision

Position Current Completed
Main Supervisor 1 4
Co-supervisor 0 2

Current Doctoral Supervision

Main Supervisor of:

  • Duming Wang - Doctor of Philosophy
    Youth Digital Narratives in Mainland China - The Power Relations between young peoples online expression and state censorship

Completed Doctoral Supervision

Main Supervisor of:

  • 2020 - Khanh Nguyen - Doctor of Philosophy
    Representation of autism in Vietnamese online news media between 2006 and 2016
  • 2013 - Fiona Shearer - Doctor of Philosophy
    A critical discouse study of an adult literacy organisation's publicity in Aotearoa NewZealand from 1973 to 2009
  • 2013 - Judith Bernanke - Doctor of Philosophy
    Interfield antagonisms: An examination of the New Zealand journalistic and visual arts fields in the case of the mainstream media coverage of et al. and the 2005 Venice Biennale.
  • 2012 - Thomas Owen - Doctor of Philosophy
    Patents, Pills, the Press and the Poor: Discourse and Hegemony in News Coverage of Global Access to Medicines Dispute, 1997-2003.

Co-supervisor of:

  • 2018 - Leon Salter - Doctor of Philosophy
    Neoliberalization, media, and union resistance: Identity Struggles in New Zealand Education 1984-2014
  • 2017 - Murdoch Stephens - Doctor of Philosophy
    How might critique respond to the urgency of climate change? A challenge for environmental communication.

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