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
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DCU Institute for Future Media Democracy & Society (FUJO)

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DCU Institute for Future Media, Democracy and Society

has been pioneering media & journalism research, innovation and best-practice since 2015.

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This paper provides researchers and policymakers with an overview of which individual-level interventions are likely to have an influence on the spread of, susceptibility to, or impact of misinformation.

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Academic Spotlight

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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...

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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)...

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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 ...

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Projects

EDMO Ireland

EDMO Ireland is one of fourteen hubs established as part of the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO). Coordinated by Dr Eileen Culloty from Dublin City University (DCU), the EDMO Ireland consortium includes the DCU Institute for Future Media, Democracy and Society (FuJo), TheJournal FactCheck, NewsWhip, and the University of Sheffield. It is part-financed by the European Union to monitor and analyse disinformation; conduct factchecks and investigations; develop media literacy resources; as...

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EUComMeet: Deliberative Spaces for Democracy

EUComMeet aims to examine the conditions under which deliberation and representation can be an effective response to the challenges besetting liberal representative democracies. The project will experiment with ways of systematically embedding deliberative practices and institutions in the multilevel system of governance and representation of the EU. It will also explore how deliberation and participation can help reduce polarisation, strengthen European identity, encourage inclusiveness and nar...

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Reuters Institute Digital News Report

The Reuters Institute Digital News Report is the world’s largest international comparative survey of the major trends in digital news consumption. It is widely used by industry, analysts, and researchers across the world. Since 2015, Coimisiún na Meán (formerly Broadcasting Authority of Ireland) has funded FuJo to undertake the analysis for the Irish report. Annual reports are available for: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 20128, 2017, 2016, and 2015. ...

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COMDEL: Deliberation for Climate Action

The Irish Research Council awarded a prestigious Consolidator Laureate Award to Prof. Jane Suiter for the COMDEL project. COMDEL’s ambition is to advance frontier research on the role of deliberation in addressing climate change. Specifically, it aims to deliver new theoretical and empirical insights into the capacity of deliberation to bridge communication and knowledge gaps between climate scientists, citizens, media actors, and elite policymakers concerning climate change. It is premised o...

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ReMED: Resilient Media for Democracy in the Digital Age

ReMeD tackles existing challenges to a healthy relationship between media and democracy by taking a bold approach to improve relations between citizens, media and digital technologies. With an interdisciplinary approach and an innovative methodology that combines qualitative and quantitative methods, ReMeD gathers, analyses, compares and contrasts data on professional journalists, alternative media content producers and citizens operating in technologically mediated configurations, and on the m...

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Jolt: Harnessing Digital and Data Technologies for Journalism

JOLT was a Marie-Skłodowska-Curie European Training Network, which aimed to harness digital and data technologies for journalism by providing a framework for the training and career development of 15 Early Stage Researchers. JOLT researchers provided empirical answers to important questions regarding the future of journalism by forging multidisciplinary and cross-sectoral research into the digital and data-driven tools, practices, and values shaping journalism....

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Media Coverage

What does the European Media Freedom Act mean for Ireland and journalism?

FuJo Deputy Director Dr Eileen Culloty spoke at an IIEA event on the European Media Freedom Act. The event ‘Safeguarding Media Pluralism and Independence in the Digital Age: Ireland in Context’ wa...

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FuJo members contribute insights to the RTÉ crisis

FuJo members have appeared across Irish media offering insights into the crisis engulfing RTÉ. Below is a selection of their contributions. In the Irish Times, Dr Eileen Culloty and Dr Roddy Fly...

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