The Centre for Technology, Society & Media (STeM) is a multidisciplinary research centre focused on the changing interfaces between society, technology and information. It addresses socio-economic, cultural and policy aspects of digital media, new ICT and the information society. STeM was founded by Paschal Preston to further develop the research of the COMTEC centre based in the School of Communication since the early 1990s. STeM was formally approved by DCU as a University Designated Research Centre (UDRC) in 2000.

STeM's research activities are clustered around the following three themes:

Digital Media Practice, Reception and Use
Theme leaders: Pat Brereton and Tom Lawrence

Communication and the Information Society: Innovation, Sectoral and Policy Trends
Theme leaders: Farrel Corcoran and Roderick Flynn

Science, Technology and Society
Theme leader: Brian Trench

STeM centre Director : Paschal Preston

Liaison Officer: Aphra Kerr

For further information email: paschal.preston@dcu.ie

or contact STeM, at The School of Communications, DCU, Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland.


© STeM 2003