Adrian Smyth offers a personal assessment of the ideas of the cultural theorist Denis McQuail who died recently. Denis McQuail, who has died, will be…
Adrian Smyth takes a look at the latest Media Use and Attitudes report published by the UK communications regulator Ofcom and hypothesises about how the…
In an effort to better understand the media lives of older people, Adrian Smyth conducts an exercise in autoethnography whereby he chronicles and reflects on…
The recent launch by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland of its Media Literacy Policy has prompted me to go back over my research notes in…
Adrian Smyth considers the digital lives of his elderly parents, in particular their news consumption habits, and argues it would be a betrayal of their…
There are demographic shifts towards ageing populations underway in most countries, including Ireland. The increase in the share of older people in proportion to the…