About
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 Media was published by Routledge in 2021.
Eileen previously worked on disinformation research as part of the H2020 project Provenance. She led a Broadcasting Authority of Ireland project investigating the diversity of public service media during Covid-19 and a Science Foundation Ireland outreach project on countering misperceptions about vaccines. She works with Jane Suiter and Lala Muradova on a DCU funded project investigating the use of mini-publics to counter Covid-19 disinformation.
Eileen’s research has been published in Journalism, European Journal of Communication, Environmental Communication, Digital Journalism, and Critical Studies on Terrorism. Her co-authored paper on social media and political communication was awarded 3rd place in the International Communication Association’s Top Three Faculty Papers for 2018.
She is vice-chair of Media Literacy Ireland, a national association facilitated by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, a member of Meta EU Affairs’ Digital Citizenship Group, and a member of the working group set up to develop Ireland’s National Counter Disinformation Strategy.
Publications
Type: Journal articles
Published in: World Migration Report
Authors: Eileen Culloty, Jane Suiter, Itayi Viriri, Sara Creta
Year: 2022
URL: Resource
Type: Journal articles
Published in: European Psychologist
Authors: Jon Roozenbeek, Jane Suiter, Eileen Culloty
Year: 2022
URL: Resource
Type: Reports
Published in: Reuters Institute Digital News
Authors: Niamh Kirk, Paul McNamara, Eileen Culloty and Jane Suiter
Year: 2016
URL: Resource
Type: Reports
Published in: Reuters Institute Digital News Report
Authors: Paul McNamara, Kevin Cunningham, Eileen Culloty and Jane Suiter
Year: 2017
URL: Resource
Type: Reports
Published in: Reuters Institute Digital News Report
Authors: Eileen Culloty, Kevin Cunningham, Jane Suiter, and Paul McNamara
Year: 2018
URL: Resource
Type: Reports
Published in: Reuters Institute Digital News Report
Authors: Niamh Kirk, Eileen Culloty, Colm Kearns and Jane Suiter
Year: 2019
URL: Resource
Type: Reports
Published in: Reuters Institute Digital News Report
Authors: Niamh Kirk, Kirsty Park, Dave Robbins, Eileen Culloty, Edward Casey, Jane Suiter
Year: 2020
URL: Resource
Type: Reports
Published in: DCU FuJo and the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland
Authors: Eileen Culloty, Kirsty Park, Charis Paevangelou, Trudy Feenane, Alex Conroy, and Jane Suiter
Year: 2021
URL: Resource
Type: Journal articles
Published in: Journal for Cultural Research
Authors: Culloty, E.
Year: 2021
URL: Resource
Type: Conference papers
Published in: 5th International Journal of Press Politics Conference
Authors: Culloty, E., and Suiter, J.
Year: 2019
URL: Resource
Type: Conference papers
Published in: ECPR General Conference
Authors: Culloty, E., and Suiter, J.
Year: 2019
URL: Resource
Type: Reports
Published in:
Authors: Dr Ricardo Castellini da Silva and Dr Eileen Culloty
Year: 2023
URL: Resource
Related Projects
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...
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. ...
The spread of disinformation online is a growing problem in Europe and beyond. The EU-funded PROVENANCE project addressed the problem by creating a service – in the form of a plug-in/personalised virtual companion – that evaluates online content. The aim of PROVENANCE was to help citizens navigate content and develop digital literacy competencies as they browse the web and social media by prompting users to stop and think about the credibility of content It provides contextual information t...
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....