Barbara O'Connor

Who is Barbara O'Connor?

Barbara O'Connor is an author and Senior Lecturer in the School of Communications at Dublin City University: Her field is media studies and cultural studies, specializing on the representation of women in television, and of the development of tourism in Ireland. She gave an invited Bicentennial Guest Lecture at Maynooth College, Kildare, on "Television soap opera: Genre and Gender"

she is a participant in the multi-university project "SIGIS: Strategies of Gender and the Information Society", coordinated by the University of Edinburgh Research Centre for Social Sciences, where she is described as a " Leading researcher and author on sociological and anthropological aspects of communication and culture...co-author of the seminal academic work on social and cultural aspects of tourism in Ireland." *