Richard Fitzgerald
Richard Fitzgerald is Lecturer in Communication and Language in the School of English, Media Studies and Art History at the University of Queensland. His teaching in the School is around media langauge/discourse, communication and language use.
Richard has published in the EM area, primarily in the areas of MCA/CA and media interaction (radio phone-ins). His PhD (1999) was in this area carried out at Bangor University, North Wales with Stephen Hester: Method in Media Interaction: An Ethnomethodological Analysis of a Radio Phone-in.
In the last couple of years Richard has been in the Centre for Language and Communication Research (Cardiff) working on a two year project examining the use of the 'Future' or temporal organisation of Radio News.
Relevant publications are:
Housley, W., Fitzgerald R. (2003). 'Moral Discrepancy and Political Discourse: Accountability and the Allocation of Blame in a Political News Interview'.
Sociological Research Online, 8(2).Housley, W., Fitzgerald. R. (2002). 'National identity, categorization and debate.
In: Stephen Hester and William Housley (eds.) Language, Interaction and National Identity: Studies in the social organisation of national identity in talk-in-interaction. AshgateHousley, W., and Fitzgerald. R., (2002). 'The reconsidered model of membership categorization analysis'.
Qualitative Research 2(1).Thornborrow, J., Fitzgerald, R. (2002). 'From Problematic object to Routine add-on: Dealing with e-mails in Radio Phone-ins'.
Discourse Studies 4(2).Fitzgerald, R., Housley, W. (2002). 'Identity, Categorisation and Sequential Organisation'.
Discourse and Society 13 (5).Housley, W. Fitzgerald, R. (2000). 'Ethnomethodology and Practictioner Based Research'.
Ethnographic Studies 1 (4).Hester, S. Fitzgerald, R. (1999). 'Category, predicate and contrast: some organizational features in a radio talk show'.
In: Paul L. Jalbert, (ed) Media Studies: Ethnomethodological Approaches. IIEMCA Series, 5. University Press of America.