Paper on IMC Ireland

national | miscellaneous | news report Friday September 27, 2002 16:05 by Graham Caswell caswell at indigo dot ie

Ireland IMC: A Citizen’s View

This is a paper written by Thomas Maguire, a Ph.D. student in Communications at the University of Texas on the topic of IMC Ireland. It's just a short paper written for a course on Alternative Media, but it's well worth a look. Thomas lived in Ireland for a year in the 1990's and uses indymedia to keep up with grass roots happenings.

In his essay he suggests that that Indymedia.ie offers a means for overseas Irish to keep in touch with grassroots Irish society. Maguire also suggests that, by debunking the myth of Ireland's part in the American conservative neoliberal story (i.e. as a model globalised success story), the Irish alternative view has a role to play in changing contemparory American social attitudes by pointing out that things aren't quite a rosy as all that.

Check the full paper out at the link below....

(Right-click and choose 'save target as..' to download the Word document to your hard drive)