Dr Mary Jane O'Leary
Humanities and Social Science
Faculty of Arts Professional and Social Studies
Email: M.J.OLeary@ljmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0151 904 1256
MJ is a Lecturer on both the Sociology and Criminology & Sociology Degree Programmes here at LJMU. She works with students on Contemporary Green and Social Issues and on various theory and methods-related modules. Her research areas include media theory, communicative capitalism and post-neoliberal discourses. She employs a variety of methodologies in her research including video ethnography and phenomenology.
Languages
English
Spanish; Castilian
Conference publication
O'Leary MJ. 2024. Interstitial Dialogues: A Phenomenology of News-Comments Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Social Media, 11th European Conference on Social Media - ECSM 2024 11 :373-377 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Journal article
Brown M, O'Leary MJ, Joshi H. 2023. Film ethnography and critical consciousness: exploring a community-based action research methodology for Freirean transformation Visual Studies, DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Thesis/Dissertation
O'Leary M. 2020. Encountering the comment: A phenomenological approach to reading the news online Allen C, Chalcraft D, Kreuger-Bridge S. Public Url
Public engagement:
Participatory arts, Film festival audiences, Co-director, Film, Researcher and co-director of documentary Film Eat Your Children, https://vimeo.com/118253497. 2016