DCU Institute of Future Media, Democracy and Society Institúid DCU um Meáin Todhchaí, Daonlathas agus Sochaí
DCU Institute of Future Media, Democracy and Society Institúid DCU um Meáin Todhchaí, Daonlathas agus Sochaí

Elect Check 2019: A Report on Political Advertising Online During the 2019 European Elections

Publication type: Reports

Published in:

Publication year: 2019

Publication authors: Niamh Kirk, Eileen Culloty, Edward Casey, Lauren Teeling, Kirsty Park, Colm Kearns and Jane Suiter

Publication link: Elect Check 2019: A Report on Political Advertising Online During the 2019 European Elections

Participants

Dr Eileen Culloty

Dr Eileen Culloty is Deputy Director at the DCU Institute for Media, Democracy and Society (FuJo) and an Assistant Professor in the DCU School of Communications. She coordinates the Ireland EDMO Hub of the European Digital Media Observatory, which aims to advance research on disinformation, support fact-checking and media literacy, and assess the implementation of the EU Code of Practice on Disinformation. Eileen’s book, co-authored with Jane Suiter, Disinformation and Manipulation in Digital ...

Dr Kirsty Park

Dr Kirsty Park is the Policy Lead at EDMO Ireland and a postdoctoral researcher at DCU’s Institute of Future Media, Democracy and Society. Her work focuses on disinformation, media policy, and internet regulation, specialising in the Digital Services Act and the Code of Practice on Disinformation, She recently led a European Parliament study assessing the risks of gendered harms for women and girls on social media and she led the data analysis on the Reuters Digital News Report Ireland (BAI)...

Professor Jane Suiter

Professor Jane Suiter is the Director of DCU Institute for Media, Democracy and Society (FuJo). She is a social scientist whose research interests focus on the public sphere. Her present research is focused on the social, political and communicative aspects of citizen participation, empowerment and direct and participative democracy. She has a particular interest in the potential of deliberation and how worked on and researcher a number of real world deliberative assemblies including We the Cit...

Related Projects

Code of Practice on Disinformation

In 2018, the European Commission convened representatives of major technology firms and the online advertising industry to develop a voluntary framework of industry self-regulation to fight disinformation. Under the Code of Practice, they committed to curbing disinformation and improving their online policies. The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) commissioned FuJo to undertake research for three reports on the implementation of the Code: Elect Check (2019) assessed the online libraries...

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