Research Cluster : Digital Games / New Media and Education

Cluster Director	Cluster Members
Dr. Debbie Ging	Dr. Miriam Judge	Dr. Pat Brereton	Dr. Chi-Sui Wang

Member biogs and publications

Dr. Debbie Ging is Director of the SIM Research Centre and a lecturer in the School of Communications. She is Principal Investigator on the Someone Else's Shoes Digital Game project and is Chairperson of the Core Curriculum Committee of the North Dublin National School Project (Educate Together). Debbie is author of:
- ‘All-Consuming Images: New Gender Formations in Post-Celtic-Tiger Ireland’, Transforming Ireland: Challenges, Critiques and Resources (Ging, Cronin and Kirby), 2009.
- All the Rage: Digital Games, Female Violence and the Postfeminisation of Cinema's New Action Heroines. Film Ireland, 2007.
- A ‘Manual on Masculinity’?: The Consumption and Use of Mediated Images of Masculinity among Teenage Boys in Ireland. Irish Journal Of Sociology, 2005.

Dr. Miriam Judge is a lecturer on the Multimedia programme in the School of Communications. She previously worked in the audio-visual industry as a video producer/director, researcher and scriptwriter and in the computer industry in a training and instructional design capacity. Miriam is author of:
- Teachers and the Consumption of ICT: a sociocultural analysis of a technology based change project in schools (2007)
- The Wired for Learning Project in Ireland: A classic tale of Technology, School Culture and the Problem of Change (2004)
- Introducing ICT into Irish Schools. A Case Study Report - Interim Findings (2002)

Dr. Pat Brereton is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Communications and Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. He has an academic background in all aspects of film studies and new media literacies and is author of:
- Convergence Special issue on The Consumption and Use of DVDs and their Add-Ons, 2007.
- Pleasure and Pedagogy: The Consumption of DVD Add-ons Among Irish Teenagers, Journal Of Research Into New Media Technologies, 2007.
- New Media - New Pleasure? International Journal of Cultural Studies, 2006.

Dr. Chi-Sui Wang is a Multimedia lecturer in the School of Communications at DCU. She is both an academic and a visual artist who exhibits her work internationally. Chi-Sui is author or co-author of:
- The World History for Animation (chapters on United States, Eastern and Northern Europe), 2009
- The Continuity of UNESCO Listed Cultural Heritages by the Means of Contemporary Art Exhibition, 2006

Current project(s):

UDRC-funded project Someone Else's Shoes - designing, producing and piloting a digital game for educating about migration and interculturalism

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