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Declan Tuite

Declan has developed and subsequently chaired both the BSc. in Multimedia and the MSc. in Emerging Media. His teaching spans both production and theory. The main areas in which he specialises are sound design, interactive/responsive design, the social effects of ICT, new media studies, programming, usability and design for emerging media forms.

Peer Reviewed Journal

	Year	Publication
	2017	Judge, Miriam; Tuite, Declan (2017) 'Leaders or led? A qualitative analysis of how young people explore express and experiment via new media in an Irish higher education context'. LEARNING MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY, 42 (1). [DOI]

Book Chapter

	Year	Publication
	2015	Tuite, D. (2015) 'Digital keepsakes: Older adults and the extended use of icts and digital artifacts' In: Artificial Intelligence Technologies and the Evolution of Web 3.0. [Link] [DOI]

Conference Contribution

	Year	Publication
	2023	Declan Tuite (2023) ECREA 2024: Media, Cities and Space An exploration of sonic materiality through composed virtual environments Dublin, 06/09/2023-07/09/2023.
	2022	Declan Tuite; Saumava Mitra (2022) ECREA 2022 Examining Irish CVR-based humanitarian communications: Towards a trans-disciplinary analytical framework Aarhus, Denmark, 19/10/2022-22/10/2022.
	2016	Declan Tuite (2016) DRHA 2016: Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts Dirty Digital: Authenticity, grunge and disruption in new media productions Brighton, UK, 04/09/2016-07/09/2016.
	2016	Declan Tuite (2016) IAMCR - International Association for Media and Communication Research Friends and Family? / Trace 2.0 Leicester, UK, 27/07/2016-31/07/2016.
	2016	Declan Tuite (2016) IAMCR -International Association for Media and Communication Research IAMCR Listen to my Day - Analysing Soundscape compositions of millennials Leicester, UK, 27/07/2016-31/07/2016.
	2015	Declan Tuite (2015) DRHA - Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts NAMA Requiem Dublin, 01/09/2015-05/09/2015.
	2015	Declan Tuite (2015) DRHA - Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts Sounding my day Dublin, 01/09/2015-05/09/2015.
	2014	Mark Glynn, Declan Tuite, Siobhán Dunne (2014) The 15th Educational Technology Conference of the Irish Learning Technology Association (ILTA) Augmented Reality in Higher Education University College Dublin, Ireland, 29/05/2014-30/05/2014.
	2014	Declan Tuite (2014) ICT, Society and Human Beings 2014 -IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems OLDER ADULTS AND THE EXTENDED USE OF ICTS AND DIGITAL ARTEFACTS Lisbon, Portugal, 21/07/2014-24/07/2014.
	2012	Tuite, Declan (2012) ECREA - European Communication Research and Education Association Downstream: the effects of ICT on core networks of older people Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul, 24/10/2012-27/10/2012.
	2011	Tuite, Declan (2011) IAMCR - International Association for Media and Communication Research IAMCR 2011 Downstream: the unanticipated effects of the Internet and ICT useI Istanbul, Turkey, 13/07/2011-17/07/2011.
	2009	Tuite, Declan (2009) IAMCR - International Association for Media and Communication Research Merging online and offline participation; opportunities and limits for civic engagement and active citizenship through eParticipation National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM),Mexico City, 20/07/2009-25/07/2009.
	2008	Tuite, Declan and Ging, Debbie (2008) ECREA - European Communication Research and Education Association Someone Else¿s Shoes: Developing a `serious game' for educating about immigration and cultural education in Ireland Autonomous University of Barcelona, 25/11/2008-28/11/2008.

Conference Publication

	Year	Publication
	2014	Tuite, D. (2014) Proceedings of the International Conferences on ICT, Society and Human Beings 2014, Web Based Communities and Social Media 2014, e-Commerce 2014, Information Systems Post-Implementation and Change Management 2014 and e-Health 2014 - Part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, MCCSIS 2014 *Digital keepsakes: Older adults and the extended use of icts and digital artifacts* [Link]

Composition

	Year	Publication
	2018	Declan Tuite (2018) From the Wall to the Door. COMPS

Education

Institution	Qualification	Subject
UCD	Doctor of Philosophy
Trinity College Dublin	M.Sc.	Multimedia Systems
DCU	B.A.	Communications Studies

Other Activities

	Description
	Within the DCU Augmented Reality app Suite we developed a set of Augmented Reality tools to enhance learning via working with colleges in Biochemistry and Nursing. The apps offered augmented media (3D models, videos and text) via a mobile phone app that could be used in situ in the lab or ward.
	The McKenna’s Guides Wild Atlantic Way project offered the opportunity apply for an Enterprise Ireland Innovation and developed mobile applications with enhanced location performance elements.
	Someone Else’s Shoes is pilot digital game aimed at 11-15 year olds. It aims to educate students about the causes and effects of migration and to explore intercultural relations between people in their wider social and political contexts. It also aims to develop users’ critical media literacy skills. This project grew out of the idea that the type of role-play exercises used in intercultural awareness training might work especially well in a digital game format. Recent reports show that children and teenagers spend a lot of time ‘plugged in’ to games and the internet, and ‘serious games’ are increasingly recognised as valuable educational tools. Given this, we wondered to what extent a game could provide a useful intervention into activities related to intercultural awareness education in the Irish classroom. Because many of the exercises used in anti-racism training are 1) interactive, 2) based on first-person activity / role-play and 3) dependent on the participant’s ability to imagine or visualize situations, they seemed to suggest themselves as exercises that could be easily ‘transmediated’ to game format. http://www.someone-elses-shoes.ie/

Creative Outputs

Year	Title	Type
2023	Ciúnas: antiphonal to ambisonic.	Exhibition
2023	Ciúnas: An exploration of sonic materiality through composed virtual environments	Exhibition
2018	From the Wall to the Door	Composition
2017	MissingMe – feeling the gaps in the web’s memory	Exhibition
2016	Family Harmonies	Exhibition
2015	Nama Requiem	Exhibition

Research Interests

Declan’s research follows two main strands; responsive media installation based work which is often blended with and inspired by research grounded in social science/digital anthropology.

Declan contributes to key communications studies avenues and has presented regularly at IAMCR, ECREA and IADIS. While he has published both journal articles and book chapters, he also produces practice based work that has led him to being invited to exhibit at Brighton Digital Festival, DRHA, ISSTA, ECREA and Ubimus along with being the artistic director for DRHA in Dublin for the 2015 conference.

His current practice based research Ciúnas - investigates spatial audio/music and materiality through choral pieces he composed which have been recorded in studio in order to be played back and re-recorded in locations with distinctive acoustics and thematic/narrative links. So far these have been publicly exhibited through VR/headsets via ambisonics and in an octophonic concert setting

Current Postgraduate Students

	Student Name	Degree	Supervision
	Rubio Arevich ,Leysi	PhD	Supervisor
	Mc Donnell ,Marian	PhD	Supervisor

Modules Coordinated

Term	Title	Subject
2022	Emerging Media Praxis	CM5037
2022	Responsive Media	CM553
2022	Audio	CM243
2022	Audio Production	CM2050
2022	Sound Production	CM1280