Caroline O’Sullivan Biog
Caroline’s research interests include digital media and contemporary culture, popular music, identity and expression online, emerging ethnographic practices, creative technologies, gender issues in technology and pedagogies for stimulating creativity and innovation.
She graduated from University College Dublin with a BA (Joint Hons) in Sociology and Library and Information Science and from Dublin City University with an MSc in Multimedia. She is currently pursuing her PhD in the Department of Sociology in Trinity College Dublin in the area of digital media and contemporary music consumption.
She has been a lecturer in Dundalk Institute of Technology since 2000 where she has lectured in the areas of Multimedia, Interaction and Graphic Design, Digital Media Culture, Innovation and Contemporary issues in Creative Media Industries, Research Methodologies and Practice Based Research. She has been extensively involved in course development in the disciplines of Creative Multimedia, Film and Video Production, and Games Development not only within Dundalk Institute of Technology but also with University of Ulster, Griffith College Dublin, Upper Bann Institute of Further Education and FETAC.
She is currently employed as an external examiner for the Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dun Laoghaire. She was a member of the executive organising committee of the 2009 International Symposium of Electronic Arts and on the programming committee for the 2008 Sociological Association of Ireland Post Graduate conference.
She is a member of the Sociological Association of Ireland (SAI), the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) and the Irish Social Science Platform (ISSP).
Conference papers
New Media Technologies influence over popular music’s consumption and performance, the 15th International Symposium on Electronic Art, University of Ulster, August 2009
“Tomorrow on Facebook is more real than what happens tonight” Department of Media Studies seminar series NUI Maynooth, April 2009.
From the local to the virtual and back again: the challenges of conducting an ethnographic study on the Dublin Music Scene. Living Cultures – Contemporary Ethnographies of Culture, University of Leeds March 2009.
72459169 Friends – MySpace.com the first example of gender balance in Gaming?, 2nd DKIT Music and Creative Media Department Research Symposium April 2006
The challenges of the introduction of Digital Media into Irish secondary level education 1st DKIT Music and Creative Media Research Symposium Dec 2005
Virtual Ireland: the importance and the potential of the creative media sector in Ireland; “Material Ireland/ Virtual Ireland “ Mid Atlantic Conference for Irish Studies, University of Maryland October 2003
Supporting Creative and Digital Media in the North East; Irish Scientists Year Book 2003