Dawn Wheatley

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Dawn Wheatley is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communications focusing on journalism, political communication, and social media. She received her PhD in 2018 for her research into online news production  and coverage of the Irish healthcare sector, with a particular emphasis on sources and voices, and how newsroom practices are established and reproduced. Dawn worked as a production journalist for the Irish Daily Mail and the Irish Times before turning to research and teaching in DCU. Her research has been published in New Media & Society, Digital Journalism, Journalism Practice, Information, Communication & Society, and on RT?'s Brainstorm, and she teaches both practical and theoretical subjects to journalism students in the School. Her current research projects include work on mobile news dissemination, filtering and blocking on social media, and source use in contemporary news reporting. She is also involved in various international projects, working on the Irish contribution to the Worlds of Journalism study which surveys journalists, and co-ordinating the Irish data for the Global Media Monitoring Project which analyses the role of women in the news.

Peer Reviewed Journal

Year Publication
2024 Dawn Wheatley; Karen Ross; Cynthia Carter; Karen Boyle (2024) 'Gender in/and the news in the UK and Republic of Ireland: Slow but (un)steady progress?'. JOURNALISM: THEORY, PRACTICE & CRITICISM, . https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849241276836
2022 Eirik Vatn?y; Dawn Wheatley (2022) 'Mediated recognition in campaigns for justice: The case of the Magdalene laundry survivors'. COMMUNICATIONS-EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION RESEARCH, 47 (4):532-552. https://doi.org/10.1515/commun-2022-0039
2022 Wheatley, D. (2022) 'Irish audiences and news information from official sources during Covid-19'. Administration, 70 . [Link] [DOI]
2021 Robbins, D.; Wheatley, D. (2021) 'Complexity, Objectivity, and Shifting Roles: Environmental Correspondents March to a Changing Beat'. JOURNALISM PRACTICE, 15 . [Link] [DOI]
2021 Wheatley, D; Ferrer-Conill, R (2021) 'The Temporal Nature of Mobile Push Notification Alerts: A Study of European News Outlets’ Dissemination Patterns'. DIGITAL JOURNALISM, 9 (6):694-714. [DOI]
2022 Wheatley, D.; Vatnoey, E. (2022) 'Understanding attitudes towards social media segregation: spatial metaphors in the discussion of Twitter blocklists'. Information Communication and Society, 25 . [Link] [DOI]
2020 Dawn Wheatley (2020) 'Victims and voices: Journalistic sourcing and the use of private citizens in online healthcare-system news'. Journalism Studies, 21 (8):1017-1036. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2020.1727355
2020 Dawn Wheatley & Eirik Vatnoey (2020) '‘It’s Twitter, a bear pit, not a debating society’: A qualitative analysis of contrasting attitudes towards social media blocklists'. New Media and Society, 22 (1):5-25. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444819858278
2020 Wheatley, D. (2020) 'A Typology of News Sourcing: Routine and Non-Routine Channels of Production'. JOURNALISM PRACTICE, 14 . [Link] [DOI]
2017 Wheatley, D.; O’Sullivan, J. (2017) 'Pressure to Publish or Saving for Print?: A temporal comparison of source material on three newspaper websites'. DIGITAL JOURNALISM, 5 . [Link] [DOI]

Other Journal

Year Publication
2021 Dawn Wheatley (2021) 'Tracing Back Beyond the Text: Using Regressive Content Analysis to Study Journalistic Practices' 3 (1) :40-55.

Published Report

Year Publication
2024 Colleen Murrell; Claire English; David Robbins; Dawn Wheatley (2024) Digital News Report Ireland 2024. Coimisiún na Meán, .
2023 Dawn Wheatley (2023) Social media and online hostility: Experiences of women in Irish journalism. .
2023 Kevin Rafter & Dawn Wheatley (2023) Irish journalists at work: values, roles & influences. . [Link]
2023 Dawn Wheatley; Leysi Rubio Arevich (2023) Attitudes towards news media in Ireland: Perspectives from Nigerian and Polish migrants. Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, .
2023 Colleen Murrell; Kirsty Park; David Robbins; Dawn Wheatley (2023) Digital News Report Ireland 2023. Coimisiún na Meán, .
2022 Colleen Murrell; Kirsty Park; David Robbins; Dawn Wheatley (2022) Digital News Report (Ireland) 2022. Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, .
2022 Dawn Wheatley (2022) Gender & Diversity in Ireland 2016-2021 & Internationally 2021. Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, .
2021 Colleen Murrell; Kirsty Park; David Robbins; Dawn Wheatley (2021) Digital News Report (Ireland) 2021. Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, .

Book Chapter

Year Publication
2023 Dawn Wheatley; Kevin Rafter (2023) 'The Media & Politics [Forthcoming]' In: Politics in the Republic of Ireland (Seventh edition). London : Routledge.
2023 Dawn Wheatley (2023) 'Mobile News [Forthcoming]' In: The Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies (2nd Ed). London : Routledge.
2021 Dawn Wheatley (2021) 'Solid swansong from caretaker government' In: Political Communication and COVID-19: Governance and Rhetoric in Times of Crisis. Oxon : Routledge.
2020 Eirik Vatn?y & Dawn Wheatley (2020) 'Eksplorerende retorisk analyse av sosiale medier” (Exploratory rhetorical analysis of social media)' In: Retorikkens metoder (The methods of rhetoric). Denmark : Samfundslitteratur.

Conference Contribution

Year Publication
2024 Dawn Wheatley (2024) ECREA Wheatley, D. (2024) Pre-empting normative failure? Journalism students Ljubljana, Slovenia, .
2024 Eirik Vatnoey; Dawn Wheatley (2024) ECREA 50 years of Magdalene laundry survivors in Irish news: Voice, recognition and a transformed status Ljubljana, Slovenia, .
2023 (2023) 9th International Conference on the Safety of Journalists Journalists’ use of filtering practices to manage negative interactions online: ‘I try not to block people, but...’ Oslo, Norway, .
2024 Roderick Flynn; Dawn Wheatley (2024) RIPE: Public Service Media for Innovation and Sustainability Squaring the circle: Using public funds to support commercial provision of public service media content Lisbon, Portugal, .
2022 Dawn Wheatley (2022) ECREA Conference 2022 Shrinking social spaces? How journalists use filtering practices to manage online negativity Aarhus, Denmark, .
2022 Dawn Wheatley (2022) 8TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE SAFETY OF JOURNALISTS Journalism students' safety concerns in digital spaces: ‘There are lots of aspects of social media that scare me a lot’ OsloMet, Oslo, Norway, .
2022 Dawn Wheatley (2022) Inaugural Climate and Society Conference. Climate Action: Ireland’s Role in a Changing World Environment correspondents: complexity, objectivity & shifting roles Dublin, Ireland, .
2021 Dawn Wheatley, Raul Ferrer-Conill (2021) 8th European Communication Conference What gets pushed? A comparative study of European mobile news notification content Braga [virtual], .
2021 Dawn Wheatley, Eirik Vatnoey (2021) 8th European Communication Conference Mediated recognition and a campaign for justice: Ireland’s Magdalene laundry survivors Braga [virtual], .
2019 Dawn Wheatley & Raul Ferrer-Conill (2019) Future of Journalism Disrupting or integrating news consumption? The temporal nature of mobile push notification alerts among European news outlets Cardiff, Wales, .
2019 Dawn Wheatley & Eirik Vatnoey (2019) European Political Science Association annual conference Constructing a rhetorical framework for analysing Twitter users' attitudes towards social media blocklists Belfast, Northern Ireland, .
2019 Dawn Wheatley & Raul Ferrer-Conill (2019) International Communication Association (ICA) annual conference Pushing agendas? A comparative study of European push notification mobile news Washington DC, .
2019 Dawn Wheatley & Eirik Vatnoey (2019) International Communication Association (ICA) annual conference ‘It’s Twitter, a bear pit, not a debating society’: A rhetorical analysis of contrasting attitudes towards social media blocklists Washington DC, .
2019 Dawn Wheatley & Raul Ferrer-Conill (2019) ECREA Journalism Studies Division Pushing agendas? A comparative study of European push notification mobile news Vienna, Austria, .
2018 Dawn Wheatley (2018) ECREA 2018 大发体育在线_大发体育-投注|官网ing a voice? Linking journalistic practices, source selection and published news content Lugano, Switzerland, .
2018 Dawn Wheatley (2018) International Communication Association Four stages of the story: Structures, practices, and the quadripartite nature of news production Prague, Czech Republic, .
2018 Dawn Wheatley (2018) Voice and voices: Exploring tensions between plurivocity and univocity A single voice for members? Health workers, journalists and trade unions as a news source Prague, Czech Republic, .
2017 Dawn Wheatley (2017) Ordinary Citizens in the Media - ICA preconference Inclusion and exclusion: How ordinary citizens fit into the journalistic sourcing process San Diego, USA, .
2017 Dawn Wheatley (2017) ECREA Journalism Studies division Channels of News Production in the 21st century Odense, Denmark, .
2016 Dawn Wheatley (2016) IAMCR Annual Conference Pressure to publish: the perceived structures of online news production Leicester, United Kingdom, .
2016 Dawn Wheatley (2016) Power and Communication Power, politics and press releases: journalism practice and trade union agendas Uppsala, Sweden, .
2015 Dawn Wheatley (2015) Global Journalism Symposium A matter of time? Newspaper brands, online content and saving stories for print Kristiansand, Norway, .

Thesis

Year Publication
2018 Dawn Wheatley (2018) Sourcing the Story: Journalistic practices and online news coverage of Irish healthcare policy. THES [Link]
Certain data included herein are derived from the ? Web of Science (2024) of Clarivate. All rights reserved.

Research Projects

Title Role Description Start date End date
Beyond words: Female journalists, public interactions and online hostility DCU PI 01/11/2021 31/07/2022
Media representations, framing and the shifting social construction of illicit drugs in Ireland 1964-2020 - ISABEL AUST DCU PI 01/10/2020 30/09/2023

Current Postgraduate Students

Student Name Degree Supervision
Aust ,Isabel PhD Supervisor

Modules Coordinated

Term Title Subject
2022 Reporting: Principles and Practice CM116
2022 Advanced Reporting CM283
2022 Networked News CM504
2022 Entrepreneurial Journalism CM3860
2022 Networked News CM295